If you want to watch the Academy
Award winning animated films online, you should check out Animation World
Network
On January 23,
2007, the morning of the nominations, AWN.com is the
only website that can guarantee clips from all the
animated shorts. Animation World Network (http://www.AWN.com),
the premiere animation-related publishing network on
the Internet, celebrates its 10th annual Oscar
Showcase, highlighting the Academy Award(R) nominees
in the categories of Outstanding Animated Feature
and Outstanding Animated Short Subject
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Did
you make it to CES? If not, or if you were too busy working
or taking meetings, and didn't get a chance to see all the
really cool toys and tools and gear, check out CNET's video
expose of the
Top 10: Treasures at CES
Mobile
TV revenues are on the move.
By 2010, global annual revenues from Mobile TV and
Mobile Video on Demand (VoD) will have increased to
almost 800% of the 2006 total, according to a newly
released report from
Understanding &
Solutions. The future of Mobile TV is
certainly looking bright, with recent industry
activities and consumer take-up laying the
foundations for significant future growth. “By 2010,
we predict Mobile TV and Mobile VoD will achieve
combined revenues of around $18bn worldwide,” says
Alison Casey, Business Director: Content & Services,
Understanding &
Solutions “and that’s excluding revenues
from advertising, sponsorship and added interactive
services.”
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Are
you creating DVDs? Are you a professional developer and
creator of content to be distributed on DVD? If so, you got
to read
Doug Dixon's article about CSS - Content Scrambled System.
How can you protect your work.
Have
you been watching the best and most popular videos that have
streamed across the net during 2006? You might have missed a
few and that might have been a good thing... Anyhow, iFilm
has done us all a favor and gathered 50 of the top viral
videos in one spot. So, if you want to look back at the
video year in review, check out the
IFilm Top 50
of 2006.
Behind
the scenes at CES-
Rich DeMuro takes you behind the scenes at
CES to show you exactly what it takes to cover the world's
largest consumer electronics show.
Watch this video
3 free Filmmaking educational videos for beginners
These are aimed towards complete beginners and will
be marketed to High
School and early colleges for sales with this type
of video in a series on
DVD. These were shot in HDV with the JVC HD110
camera in both 24P and 30P modes and
edited in Avid Xpress Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
along with some work in
After Effects.
Adobe
Production Studio for the Mac! It' s about time.
But ... you can't get it until mid 2007.
Adobe
Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that the next
version of Adobe® Production Studio, the integrated video
and audio post-production tool set that is part of the
Creative Suite family, will be available for both the
Macintosh and Windows® platforms.
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At
CES, Canon announced a whole bunch of new camcorders -
this includes:
The
Canon DC50 DVD Camcorder that can record directly to DVD and
snaps five megapixel still images to a miniSD card;
The new
ZR series of Mini-DV camcorders offer
consumers an affordable, easy to use solution to preserving memories. The
ZR800, ZR830 and ZR850 camcorder all feature a long 35x optical zoom. -
The New
DC series of DVD camcorders include the
DC210, DC220 and DC230 DVD Camcorders. They have a 35x optical zoom, and
a wealth of consumer friendly features.
That's right - 35x OPTICAL
ZOOM!!!! - how the heck can
anyone hold that steady?? I guess we will find out - this is the best thing
for tripod manufacturers!
A
comedian's racist rant is caught on a cell phone camera.
A politician's apparent insult is captured on videotape.
An obscure rock band's video is uploaded on YouTube. And
soon all are seen by millions of people around the
world. Call 2006 "The Year of the Upload." What were you
watching, downloading, sharing, and talking about in
2006?
Need
to master the essentials of making video without having to
crack open a book or take a bunch of classes? Here is
a great Mini-Guide that gathers together a list of
totally free online video resources for anyone
looking to learn something without having to pay for the
privilege. As
Web 2.0 evolves into a democratic, largely social
landscape, online video proves itself to be a great asset in
collective knowledge-pooling.
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Great new products for the professional video and film
maker- What do you WANT and NEED for 2007?
There
are many different ways of making it big in Hollywood and
our technology society. You can be a producer, an editor, a
genius, a criminal - or you can become a writer and be the
one responsible for thinking up the dreams and concepts that
entertain and tantalize. This new book from Focal Press,
"Writing for Animation, Comics and Games by Christy Marx, is
a very good introduction to what you need to know to be
successful in these areas.
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If
you are just starting out in video you got to check out
filmmaker Quito Washington's new
60 second film school. So far he has only three lessons
posted but they are great for those who want to learn how to
use their digital camcorder to create professional looking
images.
How
are you and your new iPod getting along? Have you truly
mastered all the features and capabilities that your new
little friend can deliver? iPod - the misisng manual is an
easy to read, simple to understand guide walks you through
all the cool capabilities or your iPod. You no longer need
an experienced iPod guru to show you how to load new songs,
how to create playlists or how to watch videos.
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