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‘IP’ (Internet Protocol) media has been streaming on the web for more than a decade. Isn’t any video stream on the web arguably IPTV
TV (video) + (delivered over) IP (internet protocol) = ‘IPTV’.
The current IPTV offering is characterized by a two-way digital broadcast signal, broadband and set-top based, coming over switched telephone or cable networks. Because we already have streaming Internet video, what would change? And will the promise of increased user control or MPEG quality force the telecoms, ISPs, and portal sites to build out this new platform in the next year?
"Paramount Home Entertainment has greenlit the first feature-length production of _Queer Duck - The Movie_ from creator and writer Mike Reiss.
This project, based on the Internet shorts in which a gay duck comes out of the closet, features the voices of Jim J. Bullock, Kevin Michael Richardson, Marice LaMarche, and Billy West. Special guest voices include Conan O'Brien, Andy Dick, Bruce Vilanch, Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, and David Duchovny."
He and his writing partner of more than 20 years, Al Jean, recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animation Writer Caucus of the Writers Guild of America. The two, who have been with The Simpsons since its start, co-created "The Critic" for television, and later, for the Internet. Reiss also was the creator of "Hard Drinkin Lincoln" on the Internet. After many television ventures which have won them multiple Emmys and a Peabody Award, Reiss and Jean continue to work together on various projects. Other TV credits include "It's Garry Shandling's Show," "The PJs," "Nine to Five," "Sledgehammer," and "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson." Reiss is currently writing movie scripts, and Jean is executive producer/showrunner of The Simpsons.
ItsMeTV launched in December 2006 and is offering MEdia Lockers that you can use to store your videos as well as as all other kinds of digital media. You can use ItsMeTV's Media Locker to Link Your Videos to the World Wide Web, Send your video link in an email, or Publish your video on your web site. Business can use the ItsMeTV to host and promote their adverting, advertorial and how-to videos and multimedia manuals. Get 15 MB for $14.95
This is a very cool little utility for users of Windows. Andrew Rowley has released version 2 of Picnam, a program for renaming and recording information about digital images on Windows XP/2000/98. Picnam is a quick and easy way to rename digital images and record information about them in an associated text file. more
Grateful Dead to Allow Free Web Downloads - What a short, strange trip it was. After the Grateful Dead angered some of its biggest fans by asking a nonprofit Web site to halt the free downloading of its concert recordings, the psychedelic jam band changed its mind Wednesday.
Va. Pilot Unit Starts Video Web Site - Virginian-Pilot Interactive Media, a division of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, began a video-only Web site Thursday.
Called HamptonRoads.tv, the site includes video of local entertainment, news, sports, traffic, local life, music and movie previews. Users can choose videos by content category, with selections from HamptonRoads.tv videographers as well as those from The Virginian-Pilot and other sources.
If you got video and need a place to store it, check out StreamLoad. Great service at a great price...
Are you just starting to make movies with camcorder and your Windows computer and don't know where to turn? Check out Windows XP and its free, bundled MovieMaker program. Here are few good books that will get you started on using this simple to learn but surprisingly powerful video editing program. MovieMaker Books
The FILE INTERCHANGE HANDBOOK is a must-have reference for every film and video professional moving to computer based production and distribution. It is the only book that gives a complete scrutiny and breakdown of all file formats for the transfer of images, sound and metadata.
Geared to a global audience, this text will get you the information that you need to learn this brand-new technology. Upcoming industry trends are mapped out alongside technology standards in this complete guide.
Learn the purpose, functionality, and structure of each standard format with this single major reference on file interchange. This handbook is the one-stop resource you want for this essential technology.
It's been a bad week for computers and the net. Are you concerned about spyware, a virus or hackers intercepting your email and getting your data? Or worse, crashing your computer and destroying your work? The Symantec Guide to Internet Security is an easy-to-understand book that will help protect you against Internet threats. It's written specifically for non-technical computer users.
Do you want to learn how to set up a car chase, make a realistic-looking alien, stage a fistfight, create atmospheric lighting, and/or correctly use special effects?
"Digital Video Production Cookbook" (Kenworthy, O'Reilly, US $29.95) will show you how to create sophisticated-looking visual effects, dramatic shots, and powerful sequences using low-cost methods adapted from high-end professional techniques. more
Are you a filmmaker looking for some great real world tips on how to create an independent film? If so, or if you are just curious about what really goes on behind the scenes during the filmmaking process, please take some time to visit the Horrors of War movie site. The brain child of writer - producer - director Peter John Ross, this site was developed to promote the film, Horrors of War, that was co-directed by John Whitney and produced by Phil Garrett and Sean Reid. The short making of documentaries are GREAT and should be seen by everyone who dreams of making their own flick, as well as those actually in the biz.
Have you ever done it in the raw? We are referring to shooting digital still images with any compression or processing. RAW format. If so, you might want to check out this book that teaches you everything you need to know about shooting in the raw. Adobe Camera Raw - Rob Sheppard
If you are editing on a Mac and are using Final Cut Pro, there is a great new book that can really help you out. Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials by Tom Wolsky - This updated guide gets to the heart of editing with Final Cut Pro 5. Eight tutorial lessons cover the essentials: capturing material, organizing it, editing, adding transitions, basic titling and sound techniques, and outputting from the application. more
You don't have to be a great film maker or go to film school to create interesting Internet video webisodes. You don't need a lot of gear, big teams, or professional expertise. You don't even need money.
All you really need is the desire and the energy to do it. Check out the Dave and Berry Show article and learn how these young kids created their own ongoing show - now with eight episodes up and posted. Read the article
However, if you do want to make money making Internet and streaming video, you ought to read The Business of Streaming and Digital Media. Itprovides a concise and direct analysis of how to implement a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. Get The Business of Streaming and Digital Media from Amazon.
It's Holiday season and many web sites are offering special programming to celebrate. You might want to check out the special Christmas videos web site offered by OutoftheClosetTV. Yes, this site is programmed towards gay and lesbians, but then again, holiday music is for everyone, regardless of sexual preference. Well, except for the TackyJacky videos which are a bit crass but very funny (and heterosexual).
Need a good laugh? This has little or nothing to do with Internet video - except that there is some flash animation inside. Checkout Stooples: Office Tools for Hopeless Fools (St. Martins Press, www.stooples.com) has a hilarious holiday gift section as part of the book parody
All Mac computers are suitable for recording music, but which one you choose depends very much on what you want to do. Whether you're a singer/songwriter, a band member, a dance music producer, a composer or a music educator, this book - Making Music on a Mac - will point you in the right direction.
Have you yet caught the podcasting buzz? If you want to learn how to create and distribute your own podcasts, check out the "Podcasting Pocket Guide.
Never before has the term "download this" had more meaning than when referring to the latest and greatest podcast. Podcasting, a hybrid term that smashes the MP3-playing iPod into broadcasting, enables ordinary people to record podcasts of opinions, news coverage, editorials, reviews, and features, and post them on the Web. Podcasting makes broadcasters of people all around the world by making their recordedcontent available for anyone with access to the Internet. With thousands of free podcast offerings being posted daily, listeners need some help to sift through all of the "noise." more
Looking for an affordable and easy to use utility program for copying and making back-ups of DVDs? For just $39.95, you can copy your non-commercial DVD collection to another DVD, to your hard drive, or even squeeze it onto a CD. more
Paris Hilton caught on Internet Video. Paris Hilton and her current boyfriend, Greek shipping heir Stavros Niarchos, got into a car crash outside Hollywood hot spot Element around 2:30a.m. Wednesday morning, and TMZ.com was there to catch all the action. Watch the TMZ.com video here! More at www.tmz.com
Are you a struggling filmmaker or video maker trying to get your web show up and on the net? Check out the story of how Justin Kownacki managed to get his ongoing web based program completed and his trials and tribulations.
Something to Be Desiredis a web comedy about a group of DJs at Pittsburgh’s struggling WANT FM. Now in its third season, the show has blossomed from an online experiment into a regular destination for college students and office workers alike. But bringing a web sitcom to life is not without its challenges, particularly when the cast and crew are volunteering and the budget is anything but big. more
November 2005
Do you need a easy to master yet complete video editing solution at an affordable price? Check out CyberLink’s PowerDirector4. In addition to the standard video editing, capture, and titling features, it also has four new video tools for automated video editing and color correction applications. The new PowerDirector4 for Windows XP and Windows 2000 users, is available for a list price of $89.95, and provides everything you need to capture, edit and share video productions. more
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In celebration of Drop Dead Festival III, the ACIDplanet® world of music presents the Drop Dead Festival Mash-Up. Launching into its third year, and appropriately timed for Halloween, The Drop Dead Festival is the largest New York festival for dark and experimental music.
The Grand Prize Winner in the Drop Dead Festival Mash-Up will receive merchandise from the Drop Dead Festival and participating bands, plus more than $1,500 worth of Sony® merchandise.
Who can copy what? According to the Washington Post, The hot fight now is over copying of video from television or the Internet that generally has been considered freely available to the public.If television broadcasters and webcasters have their way in international treaty talks, they would gain new, 50-year rights to virtually any video they beam out, even if no one owns the rights to the content.Weighing Webcasters' Rights to Contentby Johnathan Krim
If you are looking for a fast, visual way to learn Macromedia Flash 8 and create your interactive website, Macromedia Flash 8 On Demandis the book you need. Step-by-step instructions with accompanying 4-color visuals mean you'll spend less time reading and more time learning. You'll learn how you can easily integrate and add interactivity with tools, develop content using pre-built components and effectively improve authoring capabilities with custom extensions. more
According to VitalStream, more people than ever before are are turning to video streaming online to access breaking news. Advances in video streaming and easy access to broadband Internet provide people with the opportunity to view major news events and online broadcasts in an instant, making the Web a popular alternative to television. According to Paul A. Palumbo, research director at AccuStream iMedia Research, three billion news and information streams were delivered in 2004 (71% at broadband bit rates). News and information is forecast to grow 20% to over 3.5 billion streams in 2005, accounting for a 20% viewing share of the entire entertainment and media market online. more
Ok, so they missed Halloween by a few weeks - But the Horror Channel (THC) today announced that it will host an online streaming video (Night of the Living Dead) and simultaneous live web chat at www.horrorchannel.com beginning at midnight Eastern Time on Friday, November 11th (9:00 pm Pacific Time). Fans logging on to the web channel at www.horrorchannel.com will be treated to the feature film, Night of the Living Dead. And, at any time during the film, fans may participate in a live chat with actress Kyra Schon, who appeared in the film 37 years ago as little Karen Cooper. more
Are two heads better than one? Many video professionals use multiple displays with their PC based systems to get additional acreage for editing, production and other computer tasks. Now Matrox has announced a special two head adapter for laptops. DualHead2Gois the world's first external upgrade designed to deliver multi-display support to compatible laptops. The DualHead2Go, which connects to the VGA output of a laptop, allows a user to attach two external displays to their system in order to run a Microsoft Windows desktop at a resolution up to 2560x1024 stretched, across both displays. more
Yahoo, TiVo Join to Blend TV, Web Services - Yahoo Inc. and TiVo Inc. are teaming up to blend some of their services, a move that further fades the lines between offices and living rooms, TVs and PCs.
How the heck do you get your personal videos to play on the video iPOD from Apple? Check out this great online tutorial from FreeVlog. November 1 entry. For both Windows and Mac users.
Do you know how streaming video and video over IP really works? If you want to know, you should check out this new tome by Wes Simpson. Easy to read, this big books includes everything you will need to know to get up to speed on the current generation of IP video as well as what is coming next. more
You cannot call yourself a true video or filmmaker unless you have a copy of theAmerican Cinematographers Manual - this is the bible, the ultimate guide for professional movie makers. Whether you shoot film or video, you need this. The 9th edition of the "ASC Film Manual." is THE authoritative source of technical information that is a widely used reference around the world. more
Sound for Digital Video - This is a wonderful book for those who are getting started in audio for video, as well as for the professional who needs to take the next step up to improve their audio production techniques. In many ways, capturing and managing audio for video is a lot more difficult than the video components.
Unfortunately, the distinguishing feature of many low-budget films and TV shows is often the poor sound quality. If you are a filmmaker shooting DV on a limited budget, you can learn from Tomlinson Holman, a film sound production pioneer. The book covers everything you need to know in order to make your films sound fully professional productions. Holman offers suggestions that you can apply to your own project from preproduction through postproduction and provides tips and solutions on production, editing, and mixing. more
It might be Magix. The new Magix Movie Edit Pro 10 offers everything most professional videographers need from an editing package- and at at a very affordable, entry level price. Under $100! read the review
Have you yet tried out and tested a hard drive camcorder? It's about time! The new Everio series of camcorders from JVC let you record DVD quality video directly to a 30 gig hard drive and then transfer it to your computer for editing when you are ready. That's 7 hours of DVD quality - 37 hours of "internet" quality. read the review
Do you need a quick, reliable, high-quality and affordable way to convert the output of analog HD video sources to standard video? Check out the new AV Toolbox model AVT-3190HD scan converter that allows older TV sets and monitors to receive HD signals. Perfect for home use, the device—because it converts both PC and HDTV input to NTSC or PAL output—is equally well-suited for boardrooms, conference centers, classrooms, and anywhere else requiring mixed format, multimedia conversions. more
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Who needs cable or broadcast TV when you got Sony's Play Station Portable? Memoirs, a new bio-series offering music lovers an in-depth look into the lives of the world’s most beloved contemporary music artists, will be distributed on PSP before it hits the broadcast networks. more
"Just Say No To Microsoft" by Tony Bove is entertaining, provocative, and great fun to read. It's also packed with practical information about alternative operating systems and programs that will help Microsoft captives exercise their freedom of choice. more
Have you entered the 555-IFILM Short Film Contest? It's a new short film contest from IFILM where the winning short filmmaker gets $5000! If your film has been screened at a film festival anywhere in the world, you are eligible to submit.
Read the 555-IFILM Short Film Official Contest Rules located here.
Do you need a cool way to create and insert animated charts and graphs into your business and broadcast videos? Digital Anarchy just announced the availability of Data Animator 1.0. Currently available for Windows; a Macintosh version will be released on Nov. 15, 2005. “We recognize that many After Effects users are doing corporate and business graphics,” said Jim Tierney, founder of Digital Anarchy. “With Data Animator, designers will no longer need to rely on clunky chart graphics from PowerPoint or deal with Flash import issues. They can generate charts and graph animations without having to leave After Effects. more
Hollywood pursues fake film sites - The body that represents the film industry is taking legal action against six websites posing as legitimate film and music download services. It accused the services of charging to re-direct people to file-sharing sites where they can access illegal material. "We won't tolerate this scam premised on the illegal swapping of valuable movie content," said the MPAA.
Now Playing on a Tiny Screenat The New York Times - When Eric Young directed his first episodes for the cellphone serial drama "24: Conspiracy," it was the bullet holes that vexed him most. Mr. Young, hired to create 24 one-minute mobile episodes for a spinoff of the hit series "24," learned that making video for a pocket-size screen is far different from making it for a 27-inch television set.
About 70 percent of the images he used were close-ups of actors, because panoramic shots appeared blurry. He said he used tiny speakers to hear what "the sound of a neck cracking" would be like on a cellphone after one of the episode's characters died from a snapped vertebra. But for gunshot wounds, the director was forced to make the bullet holes extra large and to double the amount of blood so they could be easily identified on the small screen.
Do you need a cool way to create and insert animated charts and graphs into your business and broadcast videos? Digital Anarchy just announced the availability of Data Animator 1.0. Currently available for Windows; a Macintosh version will be released on Nov. 15, 2005. “We recognize that many After Effects users are doing corporate and business graphics,” said Jim Tierney, founder of Digital Anarchy. “With Data Animator, designers will no longer need to rely on clunky chart graphics from PowerPoint or deal with Flash import issues. They can generate charts and graph animations without having to leave After Effects. more
Hollywood pursues fake film sites - The body that represents the film industry is taking legal action against six websites posing as legitimate film and music download services. It accused the services of charging to re-direct people to file-sharing sites where they can access illegal material. "We won't tolerate this scam premised on the illegal swapping of valuable movie content," said the MPAA.
Now Playing on a Tiny Screenat The New York Times - When Eric Young directed his first episodes for the cellphone serial drama "24: Conspiracy," it was the bullet holes that vexed him most. Mr. Young, hired to create 24 one-minute mobile episodes for a spinoff of the hit series "24," learned that making video for a pocket-size screen is far different from making it for a 27-inch television set.
About 70 percent of the images he used were close-ups of actors, because panoramic shots appeared blurry. He said he used tiny speakers to hear what "the sound of a neck cracking" would be like on a cellphone after one of the episode's characters died from a snapped vertebra. But for gunshot wounds, the director was forced to make the bullet holes extra large and to double the amount of blood so they could be easily identified on the small screen.
October 2005
If you are an independent film maker, using the web to help promote your film is essential. Check out how the makers of "Formosa" created a simple but effective site that features the trailer for Formosa. Director Noah Kadner had a strong desire to shoot 35mm film but lacked the requisite finances. “When I first heard about the Panasonic SDX900 camera I became very excited, because I saw that it combined 24p, Cine-style lenses, native 16:9 CCDs and high quality compression.
The next movie showat Newsweek via MSNBC The Next Movie Show- Not only does Apple's latest iPod do video, but so does its online store.
- Steve Jobs had some 'splain-in' to do. He's spent the last couple of years insisting that no one wants to watch video on the puny screens in handheld devices. But last week Apple's charismatic CEO introduced the fifth generation of his monstrously popular iPod. And this one ... does video. It will screen your home movies, music videos and TV shows downloaded from the iTunes store (we'll get to that bombshell in a second). Though the screen is bigger than the one on the previous 'pod, it's still tinier than a standard Post-it note. What gives?
Wannabe documentary makers now have the chance to showcase their work on its new broadband channel, FourDocs. Unlike vanity publishing in the book world, they don't have to pay for the privilege: the new service is completely free to use and is part of Channel 4's commitment to public-service broadcasting. Along with a good idea, all the budding film-maker needs is a digital video camera and editing software. Once they've shot and edited their film, they upload it to the FourDocs website, where it can be viewed by anyone using Windows or Macintosh media players.
"These documentaries can be on any subject, so long as it adheres to the specified legal guidelines," explains Peter Dale, head of More4 - Channel 4's new public-service digital channel - who conceived the project. "The only other stipulation is that uploaded documentaries be no more than four minutes long. This short format was chosen partly because it is a challenge for both new and experienced documentary film-makers, and also because four minutes is currently the level of attention span most people have when viewing on the internet."
Anyone can make video movies and put them on the web. Don't believe me? Well then checkout this site nominated by Chris Malimban. A bunch of guys with some good ideas, a camcorder, a Mac and and a Mac Dot account, combined with too much spare time, demonstrates that anyone can make funny little movies and stick them on the web. If you are afraid that you don't have enough talent, or that your ideas just aren't good enough, take heart. This site demonstrates you can do it!
Do you want that cool "film look" for your movie or video but just can't seem to get it right? Checkout the newest version of Magic Bullet™ Editors 2 from Red Giant Software. The world’s first real-time film look plug-in for Mac and Windows desktop video editors offers 16 plug-ins including Look Suite, a tool for mimicking various film processes and shooting styles; MB Deartifacter, a new plug-in for cleaning up DV and HDV chroma problems; and Misfire plug-ins for generating a wide variety of damaged film characteristics. Using the new DeepColor RT GPU render engine, Magic Bullet Editors 2 Look Suite plug-in now runs up to 12x faster than the CPU alone—allowing users to do real-time film look treatments on the desktop in standard definition. more
The Basics of Making Great Movies with Your New Camcorder - everything you need to know about getting started making great looking videos with your camcorder. From zoom to focus to audio to batteries, if you just bought a camcorder or are thinking of getting one, you should read this.
Smaller Video Producers Seek Audiences on Net - New York Times article
In 1999, "The Blair Witch Project" became one of the most profitable low-budget movies of all time through word-of-mouth promotion helped along by a mysterious little Web site that the film's creators put up. Now Dan Myrick, the movie's co-director, is turning to the Internet, not just for marketing, but to deliver a whole series called "The Strand of Venice," a moody drama set in Venice, Calif. Instead of watching the show on TV, viewers will have to go to Mr. Myrick's Web site, strandvenice.com, where a 50-minute pilot episode is available free. Future episodes will cost 99 cents, for a 30-minute film. more
Want to watch your videos and movies on your Sony Playstation Portable? Thanks to Video Vault, you can capture, edit and then transfer your videos and movies to a PSP via the PSP's USB connection or MemoryStick. You can input a wide range of video file formats and then use Video Vault's software to do some basic editing including adding title overlays. If you prefer, you can use your standard video editing software to create a movie and then transfer it to PSP via Video Vault. more
If you are an independent film maker, using the web to help promote your film is essential. Check out how the makers of "Formosa" created a simple but effective site that features the trailer for Formosa. Director Noah Kadner had a strong desire to shoot 35mm film but lacked the requisite finances. “When I first heard about the Panasonic SDX900 camera I became very excited, because I saw that it combined 24p, Cine-style lenses, native 16:9 CCDs and high quality compression.
Study: Broadband Use Grows in the U.S. More than 60 percent of Americans who use the Internet at home now do so with a high-speed connection, a new study finds.
That's a jump from 51 percent a year ago. Nielsen/NetRatings says 86 million Internet users surfed the Web on home broadband connections in August. Broadband use has grown steadily in the United States as prices fall and more video and other bandwidth-intent materials are available online.
U.S. Insists on Keeping Control of Web - A senior U.S. official rejected calls on Thursday for a U.N. body to take over control of the main computers that direct traffic on the Internet, reiterating U.S. intentions to keep its historical role as the medium's principal overseer.
Want to win $25,000 cash, $20,000 worth of equipment and a worldwide distribution deal for your short film? AtomFilms® and Intel Corporation have just launched the Intel Indies Film Contest with a call for short film entries available at http://intel.atomfilms.com. November 21, 2005 deadline. Winners will be announced at a major film festival in January 2006. The contest asks entrants to create films that imagine what they would do with a magic wand. The theme allows entrants to fully unleash their imagination and tell the story of how they would transform their world, to make it better, easier, and more exciting, all through the magic of movies. more
Do you want to make money making video? The Essential Digital Video Handbook by Pete May is a very good high level introduction to what it takes to be successful making and selling commercial videos that make money. We are not talking abut artsy indie films, music videos or Hollywood blockbusters but down to earth commercial and industrial production. If you are just starting out, definitely check out this book. Lots of pictures, logically laid out and easy to understand. more
All about Streaming Video and Net Video. Check out Doug Dixon's 2005 guide to what you need in order to watch and create streaming video. For both beginners and professionals. more
Are you thinking of getting a job in Hollywood as a professional video editor? You'll need to learn Avid. Are you thinking of evolving from Final Cut Pro, Ulead and/or Premiere to the editing program that the professionals all use - Avid? Then check out the new "Avid Editing" book by Sam Kauffman. Easy to follow - a great way to get started. more
September 2005
Do you need to keep in touch while you are on the go or on the road? The good news is that you don't have to lug a laptop with you to check your E-mail. And the bad news is that you can't escape: even today's mobile phone handsets can do E-mail and browse the Web. But at least you can be connected on your own terms -- new wireless PDAs and the deployment of next-generation 10X faster wireless networks provide an astounding array of options. Check out Doug Dixon's Manifest tech article. more
Do you want to make a movie using your DV camcorder? Have you yet seen "Revelation"? Definitely one of the best Star Wars Fan Films out there. Even better, its a free download from the Internet. Also, read about how Shane Felux and his wife Dawn Cowings spent three years and $20,000 of their own money to make our own Star Wars fan film, titled Revelations, distributed for free over the Internet. They had some help - hundreds of people from around the world contributed their time and talent to make this project a reality. Great editing and wonderful effects - more
If you are doing production or home theatre, you need some tools to correct and improve your video signals. TV One now offers four ultra-compact components that enhance television images and rebuild synchronizing signals. Included within the TV One-task™ line, these components provide high-quality signal performance that is both improved and stable. more
dotPhoto, a leading digital photo sharing website, has just launched its ‘video-catching’ service, making it possible to save and share those precious memories with anyone, anywhere. Now you can point your camera phone, capture a video, and send it directly to your dotPhoto account to share quickly and easily with as many people you choose to invite. more
Looking for a single web site where you can store, access and share all of your multimedia files? Check out the MediaMax form Streamload. Streamload MediaMax helps consumers centrally store, organize, access, and share their entire media collection. For the first time, people have the freedom and tools to share their home videos, digital photos, and MP3s, in full-quality original formats and also access their music, TV shows and movie recordings remotely via the Internet. more
Are you Akimbo? Read the review of this new "video and TV on demand service." Not only can you get great programming (including video blogs and classic movies), they are looking for more content. more
Hollywood's six major film studios on Monday unveiled a technology venture to find new ways of protecting movies from illegal copying and distribution in black markets or over the Internet. more
Getting legitimate online music and video file-sharing programs off the ground is taking a lot longer than originally promised. Two promising ventures have been hampered by technical delays and confusion over copyright rulings that seek to curb the wildly popular practice of swapping. more
You can easily create a customized video player for your web site by using Wildform Flix, Read the review. Better than Microsoft, Real Networks & Apples QuickTime. Nobody offers a more simpler and easier to use solution, especially at this price.
JVC's new Everio Hard drive camcorders are now available. The new JVC Everio G Series camcorders record to a built-in hard disk drive and will be available in 20 and 30 gigabyte (GB) versions. At high res, they can record up to seven hours of DVD movie-quality video. more
THE INDIE FILM STUDIO CONTEST: To promote the new Indie Film Music Pack, SmartSound is combining with Avid and Alienware to give one lucky filmmaker the SmartSound Indie Film Studio. This package includes more than $11,000 worth of products that give any independent filmmaker critical tools for making their dream project a reality. more
Canon finally rolled out their first High Definition video camera, the XL H1 High Definition (HD) camcorder. It comes with a 20x HD video zoom lens with Superior Canon Optics that provides broadcasters with a low-cost 1080i resolution option for ENG, Documentary or Reality TV production. Filmmakers will also appreciate the extensive Cine controls and 24 Frame rate option the XL H1 camcorder offers. Canon's "professional jackpack" features include uncompressed digital HD-SDI output for seamless integration into broadcast studios or high-quality image transfer to non-linear editing systems. The Genlock feature allows movie sets to easily synchronize camera settings across multiple camcorders and SMPTE time-codes in-and-out allow for streamlined tape and edit management. more
If you are a Mac user, you will be happy to see the release of the new StuffIt Deluxe 10. It’s now fully integrated for Mac OS X, including Tiger! The new program does everything you have come to expect from StuffIt, with an amazing new addition – It now compresses JPEG photos by as much as 30%!
Looking for an inexpensive, fast and easy way to cut and edit MPEG files? Check out Video ReDo. more
FOCUS Enhancements announced the new FireStore FS-2E Studio Direct To Edit® (DTE) recorder that records video to FireWire disk drives in edit-ready, native DV-NLE file formats – eliminating the need to capture, transfer or convert clips prior to the edit stage of production. more
Looking to promote your video or film? TriggerStreet is looking for short films and videos for their upcoming contest and exhibition.
Suddenly it seems that everyone on the Internet, from corporate giants to nonprofits, wants to host your bulky video content--free of charge.CNET article by Paul Festa
August 2005
Roxio announced Toast7 for Mac computers. Toast 7 includes a number of features that make previously impossible tasks a reality for Mac users. These features include multi-image High Definition slideshows with pan and zoom effects, transitions and background soundtracks, audio DVDs with over 50 hours of rich Dolby® quality music and advanced navigation, and data spanning, which allows users to backup large files, folders and applications across multiple CDs and DVDs. more
How does a fictional cartoon group tour? Why virtually, of course. The Gorillaz, the virtual hip-hop band of rock and rap musicians fronted by 2D characters, will hit the road — or information superhighway, anyway — for a one-day online event on Aug. 24 more
Do you love big budget, big screen flicks like Total Recall, Minority Report, iRobot, Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow,Dark City, and others? If so, you got to check out Building Sci-Fi Moviescapes, a very interesting and well laid out guide to the science fiction and "science reality" films of the last couple of decades.
Who is America's Princess? Who has replaced the Kennedys as America's royal family? Believe it or not, its Paris Hilton. Ouch. Read it here.
Andrew Kantor: CyberSpeak - The future of television lies on television, not the Net - There are a group of technologies that are finally ready for prime time, and that together are going to reshape the way we watch television. The future - thanks in large part to the Internet - is true on-demand television. The notion of a limiting TV schedule will go out the window.
Can't get enough of Court TV? Now you can watch over your phone.
Court TV finds in favor of SmartVideo for mobile (Hollywood Reporter) - Court TV viewers now will have more access to their favorite legal programming through a new partnership with mobile video provider SmartVideo.
If you are thinking of making movies, or are already in the biz, you got to read this book "The Art of the Documentary: Ten Conversations with Leading Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Producers" by Megan Cunningham. The book contains some incredible interviews with leading documentary directors, cinematographers, and editors. more
What's your end game? Why are you involved in creating video and Internet movies? Do you just want to share some stories, exploit your message or show off your family and friends? Maybe you have something bigger in mind? Maybe you want to make big time movies? Check out long time Internet Video Magazine contributor Quito Washington and his new full length flick, Reason To Kill. You can subscribe to Popcast to see a bunch of his films or you can simply search the Digital Cinema Pictures site.
NASA Launch sets record for Internet Video Streaming -nearly 433,000 people simultaneously watched NASA's webcast of this week's space shuttle launch. That's more than twice the 175,000 streams that America Online Inc. had at its peak July 2 for the Live 8 concerts, an event widely cited as a coming-of-age moment for online video. It also nearly quadrupled a record for NASA set three weeks ago during Deep Impact's encounter with the comet Tempel 1. more
In August, JVC's new lines of hard drive camcorders will finally hit the shelves. The new JVC Everio G Series camcorders record to a built-in hard disk drive and will be available in 20 and 30 gigabyte (GB) versions, offering unprecedented camcorder storage capacity. At high res, they can record up to seven hours of DVD movie-quality video. They also record more than 10.5 hours at a quality level comparable to a DVD camcorder’s 30-minute mode. more
Hal Landen's latest book, "Marketing with Digital Video: How to Create a Winning Video For Your Small Business or Non-Profit," shows how small-budget businesses can take advantage of today's affordable digital technology to produce effective business videos. more
Are you using an online video locker to store your video? Do you record your favorite broadcast or cable shows and wish you had access to them whenever or wherever you wanted to use them? Are you running out of disk space because your digital video recordings are so large? Online storage locker may be the solution. more
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Looking for a good and affordable video editing software package that's easy to use? Check out the new and improved Ulead VideoStudio 9. Read the review by Doug Dixon. If you are trying to create and author DVD discs, then check out Doug's review of Ulead DVD Movie Factory.
You can now create your own streaming net service that relays your personal home or business TV and cable service, over the net, to your computer or anywhere in the world. Sling Media, Inc. announced the nationwide availability of the Slingbox that transforms Windows XP based PCs and laptops into personal on-the-go digital TVs. The Slingbox allows individuals anywhere-anytime access to their own living room television experience with no additional monthly service fees. Enabling consumers to watch their cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from wherever they are, the Slingbox turns any Internet-connected laptop or desktop PC into a personal TV. more
According to Informa Telecoms and Media, the market for erotic content for mobile devices is predicted to be worth USD2.3bn by 2010, but realization of this is highly dependent on mobile phone carriers and content providers working with regulators in order to determine solid controls and age verification procedures. more
News, news and more news on the net. Recognizing the value of always available video news on the Internet, CBS announced that it will start making its newscast available 24/7. The Web site will feature free video clips of reporting by CBS journalists with footage not aired in the daily CBS Evening News broadcasts. Breaking news stories will be updated throughout the day. While the other broadcast networks ABC and NBC, as well as cable channels such as Fox News, CNN and MSNBC, have Web sites, CBS said its will be more extensive and on demandmore. Check it out here
Time is Ripe for Video Blogs: Yahoo and Google Ready to Cash In - Within minutes of the tragic London bombings last week, news sites showed location video footage -- mainly from camera phones -- sent by members of the public. According to director of news Helen Boaden, the BBC quickly received 30 video clips, which aired on broadcasts and online within 20 minutes of the attack. Boaden called it "a new world" of digital media distribution.
Vamsi Sistla, ABI Research's director of residential entertainment research, agrees: "Now, anybody who has a voice has a means to express it." Many of those video clips were carried on Web sites such as Yahoo, Google and MSN, highlighting what Sistla calls the latest trend in digital home "entertainment": the move by large Internet operators into a realm previously dominated by cable companies and telcos offering broadband services.
The signs are everywhere. Microsoft is collaborating with France Telecom to produce cutting-edge digital media products. Google, with a new video service, has just announced an investment in a company providing broadband through powerline, and is rumored to be buying dark fiber bandwidth. China's Shanda Interactive has released a set-top box, and Intel is investing in movie distribution. from ABI Research - www.abiresearch.com
July 2005
Are you an independent producer with great programming or DVDs to sell but you can't make a dent in the marketplace. Check out how TotalVid helped Norlynne Coar with her "Learn to Surf with Surfer Joe" DVD.
CyberLink’s PowerDirector4 is a complete video editing application that has some very interesting and powerful tools for creating videos, including four new automated video editing and color correction applications. Read the review
You no longer need a computer to watch Internet video or video blogs. Check out the new Akimbo Video Player and Service. You can find videoblogs from Rocketboom, FreshWave.TV, Clint Sharp’s Vlog, Steve Garfield’s Video Blog and “The Carol and Steve Show,” alongside programs from A&E, BBC, CNN, HGTV, Cartoon Network and others. press release
Have you ever heard a song on the radio or at a friend's house and you really want it? But all you can remember is a few words from the tune? Check out the new GoFish Search-by-Lyrics that enables online music enthusiasts to easily search for music by simply typing three or four words of a song's lyrics and have targeted results returned to them. It works. Amazing. This needs to be on everyone's phone and portable electronic device. Once they find the song, they can then listen to thirty second audio clips, review artist information, see album art, and purchase songs. And, as this is a video zine, check out their crazy net videos section with hundreds of funny and classic viral videos and short clips.
Looking for an inexpensive but easy to use software program for editing music and audio tracks for your video productions? Check out Magix Music Studio 10 deLuxe. With a list price of $79.99, it provides professional features that make life easier for home users in the virtual music studio, such as “Elastic Audio Easy” for automatic pitch recognition and correcting monophonic audio. “File Manager” and “Browser” help to review tracks and files – crucial for large projects. New creative retro effects are featured in the “Vintage Effects Suite” with effects for Chorus, Flanger, Mod filter, and Analog Delay. Complete drum tracks can be generated by the touch of a button with the new “LiViD” feature. more
Internet video everywhere. AOL, Yahoo, Google, MSN, etc are all competing to get your attention (and your advertising dollars) via online streaming video. Check out this article from USA Today about Video Hubs. "The "Video Hub" lets users begin their day with personalized TV - be it movie trailers, TV previews, music videos or highlights of news, sports and entertainment." more
Have you ever said you wanted to just chuck it all, hop in your van with your video gear and travel the world with your camcorder and portable video editing gear, documenting the ills and currents that make this globe run? Check out FluxView USA, run by Flyx Rostrum, AKA Gianni Lazuli. Whether you are an activist or not, political or just goofy, you'll love his FluxView news van and his loyal cat crew. Check out the site and his new promo video.
Looking to full jump full throttle into the highly competitive video search game, AOL’s Singingfish, a service of America Online, Inc., announced that will begin featuring optimized video content feeds from more than 13 new partners including: AtomFilms, Big-Boys.com, CBSNews.com, CNN, Healthology, Inc.,Hollywood.com, IFILM, Like Television, ManiaTV.com, MarketWatch from Dow Jones & Company, The One Network, ROO Media and TotalVid. This is in addition to their established content partners like MSNBC, NPR, Reuters, etc. By using the Singingfish video and audio search engine, you can now browse through millions of multimedia files across wide-range of categories including entertainment, finance, health, news, and sports. Hopefully, this will keep AOL users from ever straying of the walled garden. check out the press release
Looking for the best video editing program on the market? There's a lot of choices but if you want to make it in Hollywood, you got to know Avid. Check out the new and improved Avid Express DV. Review
Want to make movies sitting on your couch and watching TV? Check out the new muvee autoProducer unPlugged. Using the Windows® XP Media Center platform, muvee autoProducer unPlugged enables users to quickly and easily make muvees on a TV screen using a remote control. You can browse for and select your videos, pictures, music and an editing style, before hitting “make muvee”. In minutes, unPlugged intelligently analyzes the selected media, before automatically cutting video highlights to the music, with style effects and transitions synchronized to the beat to produce a compelling, finished production more
Check out this article by Doug Dixon of Manifest Tech - all about the advantages, features and capabilities of the new Windows Media Player 10 and two cool portable media players - the Samsung Yepp Portable Media Center and the Creative Zen Portable Media Centermore
Digital Video Hacks - Tips & Tools for Shooting, Editing, and Sharing
By Josh Paul - First Edition July 2005 (est.)
This is a really cool book if you want to take digital video to the next step. According to the author Josh Paul, "Some of the (100) hacks include: creating a video that changes its ending based on the time of day, building and using a blue/green screen, and using your DV camera to backup your computer. Of course, there's also information on vlogging. I sincerely hope there's something in there for everyone, amateur and professional." more
InterVideo Offers Free Multimedia Software Suite for Download - For a limited time, InterVideo is offering a free download of MediaOne SE at www.intervideo.com. InterVideo MediaOne SE is the ideal solution for anyone who wants a powerful media suite in one package. This broad digital media suite allows users to perform several multimedia tasks including photo management, editing/authoring home videos to CD, creating music CDs and burning compilations and slideshows to CD for playback on a PC or on a consumer player as a VCD. more
June 2005
Sony Corp (SNE.N) unveiled a high-definition camcorder that is small and light enough to allow consumers to shoot high resolution video comfortably with one hand. The new HDR-HC1 Handycam can fit easily in your hand and weighs 680 grams without battery. It is less than half the size and one-third the weight of a previous model that Sony introduced last year as the world's first HD video camera for consumer use. more
CNN.com will make its existing online video offerings available for free beginning June 20 as it prepares a new video package that will cost money to watch. CNN is redesigning its home page to prominently feature the free video, which currently can be found by clicking on small links marked "video." more
Internet TV - Internet Video - niche programming to please any taste or whim — we'll be seeing much more now that broadband Internet has finally become a more reliable conduit for the delivery of broadcast-quality video more
How to create Movie Clips using FlashMX - This tutorial will show you the basics of creating and using Movieclips in Flash MX. Most of the information will also be applicable to Flash MX2004.
May 2005
JVC has introduced another industry first with the SR-DVM70-US three-in-one digital video recorder. Nobody else has anything like this. I'm sure there are a lot of electronic designers at JVC competitors scratching their heads asking themselves , " Why didn't I think of this? Incorporating the all-digital format of MiniDV, 160GB hard disk drive, and DVD burner in a compact, easy to use package. more
At NAB 2005, Sony will show off the new version of its VEGAS+DVD PRODUCTION SUITE. Upgrades To Vegas And DVD Architect Software Offer Integrated Support For Optimized HD Production more
Make FLASH Easy - Wildform develops video, animation and presentation software including the Flix Flash video encoder, the Wild FX Pro video titler and text animator, the Linx easy Flash editor and the Wildform Video Library. click here for more info....
Yahoo! announced the general availability of Yahoo! Video Search which includes new partnerships with Buena Vista Pictures, CBS News, CMT, Discovery Communications, MTV, Reuters, Scripps Networks (Home & Garden Television, The Food Network), VH1 and more, making Yahoo! Video the most comprehensive video search product on the Web by bringing more mainstream video content to consumers. more
Moving Voices: Digital Filmmaking in the Global Classroom - Slowly but surely, digital video technology has made its presence felt in education. One has only to look at the various Websites of schools and universities to find one or more pages offering a downloadable or streamed video about a program, event, conference, classroom activity, lecture highlights, graduation ceremonies, etc. This is not surprising, now that digital video technology has become easier to use and more affordable. As James Martin, noted computer education stalwart and Pulitzer Prize nominee, declared in his speech before the International Education and Resource Network — or iEARN annual conference in Slovakia last July, the technology is here, it will just keep on getting better and cheaper. iEARN recognizes the potential and impact of digital video technology in its international network of about 20,000 schools in over 110 countries worldwide. Thus, in March 2004 it launched "Moving Voices," a pioneering project integrating digital filmmaking into the curriculum. more
The Smart Money behind Video Blogging - Business 2.0 article- You've heard it for years: Digital video and the Internet will make everyone a filmmaker, and their films will be everywhere. Prognosticators of the next big thing were fond of quoting Francis Ford Coppola on the subject: "One day a little girl in Ohio is going be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camcorder. For once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed and it will really become an art form." more
In the new book,"iMovie HD and iDVD 5: The Missing Manual" , David Pogue explains iMovie's and IDVD 5's big-ticket features and improvements as well as the finer points--the intriguing little enhancements that typically go unmentioned but, "taken together, will make a big difference in your moviemaking career. more
Your business or organization can establish an effective media broadcast presence without the huge costs normally associated with Internet broadcasting by using what is known as P2P Internet broadcasting. Using this method, only a few data streams are required for a global Internet broadcast distribution. more Article by Dave Childers
Have you created your own video blog or video site and no one is visiting. Don't just sit there - promote it. Check out Steve Garfield's Video Blog about how to promote your video blog - makes sense.
For the first time, Macintosh OS X users can now make, edit, and play Windows Media from within QuickTime-based media applications. Telestream’s Flip4Mac products bridge gaps between Microsoft Windows Media format and the Apple Macintosh platform. more. This is really cool if you are a Mac user!
Google recently announced their new Video Upload Program that is designed to connect your work with users who are most likely to want to view them. As of April 15, this program is still in the beta stage - or actually pre-beta, as they are not yet letting anyone access the videos. They are just collecting them. This is going to make a lot of the for pay video hosting services very nervous. more
Do you need to create and make titles and graphic designs for your DVDs and videos? Do you need to create cool looking images and graphics for your video web site? You got to try out Photoshop Elements. Photoshop Elements is basically a light version of Photoshop that makes it much simpler to manage and master Photoshop's power without having to endure a complicated learning curve. "Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual" delivers beginning-to-advanced tools, tricks, and tips for improving photos, keeping them organized, and making top-notch prints and other creative projects. The book covers both Windows and Mac versions. more
Are you wondering what is the value of using streaming and digital media for your business?" This new book, the Business of Streaming and Digital Media gives you a concise and direct analysis of how to implement a scalable, profitable venture, as well as the common and hidden pitfalls to avoid in your business. You will learn how to gain significant time-to-market and cost-saving advantages by effectively using streaming and digital media technologies. more
TV One's new C2-7200 Dual Channel Video Processor provides the ultimate flexibility in analog and digital conversion as will as video and computer convergence. It features two independent video processing and scaling engines and two video mixers for maximum flexibility in handling virtually all analog and digital video signals and is equally at home in Broadcast or Display environments. more
April 2005
Are you looking to become a video blogger or to put your videos on the web? Maybe you are on a budget or maybe you don't consider yourself a tech guru? Here is a great little tutorial on how to create and post Internet Videos using the FREE MovieMaker program found in Windows XP. PS - You can get the latest MovieMaker 2.1 program as part of the free Service Pack 2 download from the Microsoft website.
Final Draft, Inc. announced the launch of its 6th annual Big Break! International Screenplay Contest. Big Break! is an annual, global screenwriting competition designed to promote emerging creative talent. The winner is awarded $10,000 cash plus meetings with industry professionals and additional prizes worth over $5,000. Many of the previous years’ winning scripts have been produced or optioned. more
One of the hottest new video movements is video DJ-ing - sort of like audio DJ-ing where artists take existing music and re-mix it to create something new - there are now video VJs - who are taking found and public domain footage, as well as footage they shoot or "borrow" from friends, to create their own art, musical or political pieces. Check out Resolume software. Not only do they have links to cool free video, they have their own product "Resolume" - an instrument for live video performances that lets you quickly improvise your videos to music. Play up to three layers of video, with up to six effects. Play video forward, backward, adjust the speed or scratch it by hand.
The 4th Annual IMVF-Indie Music Video Festival is now accepting music video entries for their next program. Cross-continent and cross-genre punk-folk, pop-rock, roots-goth, industrial-ska karaoke-blues, screamo, hip-hop, avant garde et al independent artists music videos. - Submission info online at http://www.imvf.com. info@imvf.com
Microsoft has launched a video download service that offers daily television programming, entertainment clips, and other digital content for viewing on Windows Mobile-based devices, it says. The MSN Video Downloads service draws on content from Microsoft partners such as CinemaNow, MSNBC.com, and TiVo, allowing subscribers to watch video on their smart phones, Pocket PCs, and Portable Media Centers. more
One of the best places to see cool videos is via the world of video bloggers - thousands of video enthusiasts, hobbyists and professionals who use the power and freedom of Internet streaming video to express their opinions, thoughts, rants and raves. One of the best places to check out the "cutting edge" of video blog mania is at mefeedia. After signing up, you can watch the video blogs, or if you are suitably motivated, you can join in on the fun and post your own video blogs.
Make FLASH Easy - Wildform develops video, animation and presentation software including the Flix Flash video encoder, the Wild FX Pro video titler and text animator, the Linx easy Flash editor and the Wildform Video Library. click here for more info....
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OurMedia is now online to host your videos, pictures and other media. For free.. Forever. Ourmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. Video blogs, photo albums, home movies, podcasting, digital art, documentary journalism, home-brew political ads, music videos, audio interviews, digital storytelling, children's tales, Flash animations, student films, mash-ups — all kinds of digital works. Ourmedia is an open-source project built and staffed by volunteers and a destination Web site that freely hosts grassroots video, audio, music, photos, text and public domain works
Looking to customize your keyboard to make it easier and quicker to edit using Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Avid & Final Cut? Check out the affordable templates from EditorKeys. more
ROOmobile.com provides access to a wide variety of video content – just like watching television - including breaking news, entertainment stories, fashion catwalk parades, movie trailers & sports videos – all available to be viewed on your Windows Mobile powered device anywhere, anytime. Users simply connect their mobile device to the internet, go to www.roomobile.com and select videos from 7 different content categories including News, Business, Fashion, Sports, Movies, etc.more
Seizing on the success of its Home & Garden Television brand, E.W. Scripps Co. has gone directly to the Internet with its latest channel that combines tips for building professionals and the power of streaming video.
Are you a video hobbyist ready to take the big step up from basic video editing to a more full featured, more powerful video editing program? Check out what might be the best on the market, Adobe Premiere Elements. Basically Premiere Pro Lite - its inexpensive and much easier to master. Click here for a review and some great guide books
BluffTitler is an inexpensive Windows program that enables you to quickly create impressive looking 3D text animations that can be played in real-time by the BluffTitler player or exported to a wide spectrum of video and picture formats for further processing in picture/animation packages and video authoring tools. more
Looking to stream video around your house or business? The IEEE working group dedicated to the next-generation 802.11n standard has settled on a single proposal, TGn Sync, members said late Thursday night. more
Easy web design and authoring by using web site templates. Yes it is cheating but it works. Save money, save time - more
Ulead System's new Video Toolbox 2 provides a handy, easy to use and affordable three-step process for converting video formats into more convenient and accessible video files. A review by Douglas Dixon of Manifest Technology - more
WildForm just announced the release of the Flix Exporter for Macintosh. Now you can add FLV & SWF video to your Mac video software including Final Cut, Quicktime, Cleaner, and After Effects. more
March 2005
Are you interested in becoming a video blogger but don't know where to start? Do you want to learn how to use the Internet to share your videos? Checkout this great article, "Shooting Web Video - How to Put Your Readers at the Scene" by Regina McCombs -
The Instant Book series from CMP Books is designed to efficiently deliver the essential skills readers need in their video and audio projects - Instant ACID, Instant Surround Sound and Instant Boris Effects. more
Are you a lighting designer or cinematographer? Need to know more about how to create art with lighting? Check out "Placing Shadows - Lighting Techniques for Video Production", by Chuck Gloman.
A mix of theory and practical applications, Placing Shadows covers the physical properties of light and the selection of proper instruments for the best possible effect. For the student, advanced amateur, and pros trying to enhance the look of their productions, this book examines the fundamentals and is also a solid reference for tips on better performance. Get Placing Shadows: Lighting Techniques for Video Production, Second Edition from Amazon
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A free HDV plug-in for Premiere Pro 1.5 is now available from Adobe. The HDV plug-in works with next generation HDV cameras such as Sony's HDR-FX1 so video professionals can quickly and easily capture, edit in real-time, and output broadcast-quality high-definition video. This plug-in provides direct HDV device control and video capture without the need for additional hardware. Registered Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 customers can download the free HDV plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro from the Adobe Premiere Pro page of the company web site at www.adobe.com/premierepro. Earlier Premiere customers can upgrade to Premiere Pro 1.5 for $199 US.
Apple Dots Some More 'i's - The new iLife O5 and iWork 05 - The most important letter in Apple's alphabet must be "i" -- not just for its iMac and iBook computers, but for its flock of i-named multimedia applications. ITunes, iPhoto, iMovie and iDVD -- sold with the Garage Band music mixer in a bundle called iLife -- turn a Mac into the center of a digital lifestyle, letting people tap into digital music, photography and movies with uncommon ease. iWork ’05: Create, publish, and present your work with style. $79 at the Apple Store.
Is Grokster Legal? - High-Tech Tension Over Illegal Uses - In 2002, a young software programmer in Seattle named Bram Cohen solved a vexing Internet problem: how to get large computer files such as home movies or audio recordings of music concerts to travel rapidly across cyberspace.
Court Debates Anti-Piracy TV Technology - A U.S. appeals panel on Tuesday challenged new federal rules requiring certain video devices to have technology to prevent copying digital television programs and distributing them over the Internet.
Couple Build Startup Into Blog Powerhouse - Like so many other 20-somethings hoping to mine the Internet gold rush of the late 1990s, Mena Trott was thrown for a humbling loop by the dot-com bust, yet still craved stardom. Her unassuming husband, Ben, just wanted another computer programming gig in Silicon Valley's depressed job market. The couple's odd chemistry cooked up Six Apart Ltd., a startup that has helped popularize the "blogging" craze, with millions of people worldwide maintaining online personal journals that dissect everything from politics to poultry.
Are you looking to produce your own films and videos? You go to get organized. Check out this article about organization, planning and shot lists from the master of indie film, Peter John Ross of Sonnyboo.com more
Four Great Books for Video Professionals from CMP - AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro and Lighting for DV. more
How do you transfer your still images and video files? Info about Memory Card Readers more Stick it in and make it happen...
The 17th Instant Film Festival is coming soon and this time the theme is Singles and Dating. You don't have to be single to attend but if you ever have been you'll have a great time as usual. If you are single or have single friends who are looking to meet people we will have fun singles activities in conjunction with the festival this time. Writers, directors and actors will be making short films in 48 hours on the theme of singles and dating. If past Instant Film Festivals are any guide, the results will be provocative, exciting and brilliant! more
If you are a Mac user, you need to check out the new iLife ‘05 — a suite of tightly integrated applications with significant new upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand and the latest version of iTunes. Apple info - PC Mag reviewiMovie Section
February 2005
If you want to make great looking music videos and slideshows - but don't have time to learn a video editing program or go to film school - you got to check out muvee's latest automatic video editing program - autoProducer 4. more Also, check out their special Valentines promotion - you get two free Valentines Day style downloads!
Photo Album 5 for simple yet powerful photo management and basic editing - the new version adds some exciting new features like an improved user interface, new ways to view and find your images, more special effects and filters, improve output selections and a new image archiving feature called PhotoSafe. more
If you are making independent films, documentaries or industrial/commercial projects, the most difficult aspect of the business is distribution. Checkout this new offer by CustomFlix. It's pretty cool. Their new On-Demand DVD Publishing service now offers distribution opportunities with top retail and rental programs including Walmart.com, Wal-Mart DVD Rentals, Amazon.com Marketplace, Amazon.com Advantage, Netflix, CinemaNow, GreenCine, Froogle, and Yahoo!Shopping. more
Looking for a powerful, full featured and easy to master video editing solution? Check out Adobe's new Premiere Elements - just $99. Read Doug Dixon's review
Are you searching for an inexpensive and/or free online site to store your big video and multimedia files? Check out Streamload at www.streamload.commore. You now get 10 GB for free! Click here to open a free unlimited file storage account!
Do want to buy and sell video and/or multimedia gear and software on eBay? Before you do, please make sure to check out this new book from Paraglyph Press, ""Degunking eBay" by bestselling eBay expert and author Greg Holden. more
Make FLASH Easy - Wildform develops video, animation and presentation software including the Flix Flash video encoder, the Wild FX Pro video titler and text animator, the Linx easy Flash editor and the Wildform Video Library. click here for more info....
Atomfilms and Lucasfilm Ltd. today announced the 4th Annual Star Wars Fan Film Awards (<http://starwars.atomfilms.com>) with an official call for submissions. The contest is now accepting fan-made Star Wars spoofs and documentaries until its March 8 submission deadline. more
January 2005
LEAD Capture & Convert is a very cool product for capturing and converting video, audio and graphics programs and files. In many ways this is a video editing program which does everything except edit and trim clips – you can capture video, add effects and text, and then output it in a variety of formats as well as extract still images from video and convert video, audio and graphic files. It includes a bunch of effects filters that are not available on other video and graphics packages. more
If you are interested in getting started in creating your own video blog, the new Vlog It software from Serious Magic may be just the tool you need more
"Home Hacking Projects for Geeks" (Northrup and Faulkner, O'Reilly, US), gives new meaning to the words "home improvement." Everything is hackable... more
More about video blogs or vlogs. Thousands of ordinary (and some downright nutty) people have begun posting a cornucopia of video fare online, from self-indulgent art clips and earnest citizen journalism to sly political commentary - see Newsweek article
Looking for a special music video? A video clip someone told you about but can't remember the name or the web site. Check out the new video search feature at Yahoo. This might be the best video search application around.
Have you been to Vegas lately? Check out the new version of Vegas Video 5 Editing Suite and Vegas Video 5 - DVD-Architect 2 program combined into one package called Vegas + DVD Production Suite more
"Secrets of Home Video" this new book by TechTV's Mike Wood teaches you everything you need to know about designing, buying, installing and configuring your home theater system to get the best possible performance more
Rolling Stone announces their pick of the top 20 music videos of 2004. Check it out. Is your favorite on the list?
Check out the Atom Films Collection of the Ten Best Short Films of 2004. Many of these have been featured here at Internet Video Magazine.
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Are you interested in becoming a videoblogger? Check out the video blogging group at Yahoo Groups. Videoblogging is taking off. We discuss practical issues (bandwidth, process, need for a videoblogging tool) and more philosophical issues (why and what is a videoblog? ...). Join the conversation! A very good group has gathered here to make videoblogging a reality.
December 2004
Check out Blinkx - a video search engine that scans online television content.Blinkx TV captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using "smart folders" that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service. more.
Yahoo Inc.said that JibJab Media will create two animated short films as the Internet company looks for ways to expand advertising by adding new content. JibJab's "Grumpy Santa," posted on Yahoo.com on Thursday morning at http://movies.yahoo.com, features a broke and stressed-out Santa Claus sick of busting his "frigging hump." more. See the movie
Are you looking for a good way to help raise funds to produce your film? Have you thought of selling credits on your film via E-bay. more
Advertising and Web Films - a great partnership. Check out this article from Reuters. When the manager of a coin-operated laundry seduces a mother and daughter and convinces them to skip town, there's bound to be trouble, or perhaps a movie plot. In this case, the story is part of an intricate set of short Internet films improbably designed to attract viewers to a new model of Mercury cars (http://www.meettheluckyones.com). Advertisers are devoting larger budgets to these Web hybrids of entertainment and marketing, hoping to convince consumers they offer not just a product, but also the elusive element of cool. The financial payoff of Internet films, sometimes called Webisodes, may be just as hard to pin down, even as marketers recruit top celebrities and moviemaking talent for the job more
Looking for a cool little combination camcorder and digital still camera? And you don't want to spend a lot of money? Check out the new Concord DV2020 2 Megapixel 5-in-1 multi-function Digital Video camera. more
Are you ready to make your holiday videos?Everything you need to know about how to buy and use your camcorder, winter video making tricks and hints, what kinds of gifts should you buy for your video enthusiast? etc. This is what you need to check out before you pull out your credit card to buy anything!
For the first time, millions of Miss World fans around the globe will have front-row seats, a back-stage pass and the opportunity to select Miss World 2005 when Nine Systems (www.ninesystems.com) webcasts the event from China December 4, 2004. more. Check it out at The Miss World website (www.missworld.tv)
SONY UNVEILS ITS FIRST COMPLETE PROFESSIONAL HDV SYSTEM - Pro 1080 Camcorder and VTR, Advanced Professional Media Combine with Broad NLE Software Compatibility to Create Entry-Level HD Production Workflow more
Are you a bad gift giver? Check out this article and see where you place on the list of bad givers of gifts.
If you love cinematography and Hollywood - you got to check this out - Forget Film School! - Learn to make movies by watching DVD commentary tracks - another great Peter John Ross article
KnowItAllVideo enables amateurs and professionals to upload short videos (files less than four megabytes in size) to find specialized audiences - without the complexity of setting up a video-capable Website - to make new friendships, share home videos, seek peer review, take a shot at fame, or communicate their skills and experience to a broader audience. more
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November 2004
SBC Gives Microsoft $400 Million Internet TV Deal - SBC Communications will use Microsoft Corp. technology to launch video services over upgraded high-speed data lines, the companies said Wednesday.
Film Trade Group Files Anti-Piracy Suits - Following the lead of record companies who curtailed rampant Internet piracy by targeting even small-time file swappers, Hollywood studios have launched a first wave of lawsuits against people who allegedly downloaded recent films such as "Spider-Man 2" and "Troy."
The Internet will change the way news is provided to the world by giving consumers the power to demand and receive any sports score, analysis or breaking story instantly, the head of the world's largest news organization said. more
The new Sony VAIO U-Series Notebook Combines Power of Full-size PC with Portability of PDA. The 1 pound VAIO® U Ultra Portable PC functions as a PC as well as a portable media player, this "pocket size" PC allows you to download entertainment content and enjoy it virtually anywhere you go. It also includes Integrated 802.11 b/g wireless LAN. more
Check out the new GET SHORTY film and video contest. Win prizes and cash. Featuring the best short films on Earth...under 10 Minutes. Period. A platform solely dedicated to the art of the shortest Short Films more
Web TV Start-Ups Show Programs Outside the Box - Internet TV is a mirage, seeming so close yet turning out to be far away or downright unreal when you try to watch it. At least that's my take on the many past plans for zapping motion pictures over the Internet. From the Washington Post
HDTV: The Babe Factor - Some high-def networks believe the showing of flesh may result in the showing of profits. Not that there's anything wrong with that. By Phillip Swann
The much-anticipated hardcover book "The Cult of Mac" by Leander Kahney is now available. Find out the lengths to which people will go to personalize their hardware and adopt a Mac-centric lifestyle.
Make a Music Video & Win $15,000! Shockwave.com, HP Music and The Warped Tour Partner To Give You A Shot At Fame. Ends November 9, 2004 more
Orb Unveils New Service for Digital Media - Orb announces a service that allows subscribers to remotely access their digital media files — even watch live television — from any gadget with an Internet connection.
Miraizon's new Cinematize 2 is a Macintosh-based software package that turns the difficult process of extracting audio and video clips from a DVD into a fun and easy experience.
Sony, Matsushita and other firms are planning to launch camcorders using next-generation, smaller DVDs in the Blu-ray format as early as 2005 to win a lead over a rival offering more
Microsoft Corp. introduced a new version of its Internet TV service, seeking to broaden its appeal beyond a relatively small base of older, computer-phobic users.
Are you confused about the new Sony HDV format - High Definition Video? Check out this special HDV Sony web site for details - includes info for professionals as well as for prosumers. Are you thinking of making the move into High Definition? One of the coolest and hottest new camcorders on the market is the new Sony HDV camcorder. more
Welcome to the controversial world of online file sharing. "Steal This File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You About File Sharing" goes beyond the misconceptions and melodrama to examine how popular services such as Kazaa, Morpheus and UseNet work, and uncovers the dangers that can befall fans of file-swapping, such as viruses, spyware and even lawsuits. more
Quicktime Pro Explained. - This new publication is full of tips, secrets, and a 20,000 word glossary of video terminology. You won't find it in any bookstore, available only online in PDF format more
Is the new Canon XL2 the best 3 chip DV camcorder for video makers? more
New Adobe Premiere Elements makes it easy to create Home Videos that look professional - check it out - Premiere Pro Lite! Easy video capture, automated editing tasks and integrated DVD burning more
The U Network, is officially "on-the-air" on hundreds of college campuses in the US, Canada and UK; and is providing a variety of shows ranging from reality and drama to news and commentary. more
Tech Firms Announce Video Anti-Piracy Technology - new encryption technology to foil video piracy, a $3.5 billion problem for broadcasters and movie studios. The anti-piracy technology, known as the secure video processor (SVP) platform, is designed for media companies to protect their content from unauthorized copying and redistribution.
ArcSoft Funhouse is a totally fun and simple to use software program that lets you create hilarious ‘fantasy’ pictures featuring the faces of you and your friends. The program includes over 150 cool background templates to get you started and includes tools for creating your own custom templates from scanned magazine covers or downloaded celebrity snapshots. My kids love it! And they taught themselves how to use it....
Apple's GarageBand program is an easy to use song-making toolkit and software recording studio that can produce professional-sounding, polished musical tracks. If you want to produce some great sounding tunes at home, get it and Get it and "GarageBand: The Missing Manual"
Check out Virtual VCR - a small, free and versatile DirectShow video capture application designed to work with TV tuner and video capture cards that have WDM drivers
HP's 101 Series: FTP Basics If you've ever downloaded a file from the web, chances are it came from a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. Here's how it works.
June 2004
You can talk like a film pro - The A to Z Guide to Film Terms is a pocket-sized movie phrase book that contains hundreds of the weird sounding terms and phrases used every day in the movie and film industry.
In September, 2003, award-winning filmmaker John Fucile was arrested for selling DVDs of his own work on the streets of Manhattan. Read the article from BrainTrustDV
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