May 2007 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews

Gaming consoles poised to lead in Net-video-to-TV
According to a new report from ABI Research, gaming consoles will take the lead in the growing Net-video-to-TV market, ahead of any other device or service. The firm believes consoles will capture more revenue because they are already successfully delivering online services. Telephony Online

This is hilarious. It is no bull - it is a cow with his own web cam. Read the article from The Register. Sacred blogging bovine turns camgirl in sympathy push.

If you are into music, video and mash-ups, you ought to check out this new site and technology. Eyespot's browser based solution fosters creativity and discovery while empowering consumers to play with copyrighted media without having to download clunky software or learn new skills. The drag and drop editing application allows anyone to upload, remix, and create new video from the community's vast pool of popular and legally-accessible content ranging from movie, television, and music clips or from user generated content.  http://www.eyespot.com .

more info about eyespot

Worst Moms Ever - Videos & Short Films from Atom Films

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You want to know the best way to get into the spirit of Mother's Day? Watch these flicks. They're like highlight reels on how not to parent. Then you'll realize that your mom wasn't so bad after all.

Are you a film maker looking for a good site to host your videos? A site without the trash and noise of Yahoo Video or YouTube? Check out Crushed Planet.

 Award-winning filmmakers (“Taxicab Confessions”) Joe and Harry Gantz announced the creation of their new internet network, CrushedPlanet.com, designed to provide the most intimate, innovative and provocative content on the web, while it protects the rights of artists and gives them the majority of funds from the distribution of their work. CrushedPlanet is an international online community for people 18 years and over, featuring inventive and intelligent content from artists around the world.  This is a curated site with fourteen interconnected channels, each with its own unique identity, and all featuring content with a strong point of view. more

Do you travel a lot? Do you miss not being to see local news or watch local sports when you are on the road? Well, there is a solution. The MY-IPTV & CAM Anywhere from Honest technology is designed to let you access local cable television programs remotely from anywhere in the world you can get a good broadband connection. This is pretty cool. In addition, using the associated My-IPCAM application, you can also remotely access and monitor a security video camera in your home or business  more

Joost goes live with advertisers - Joost, the online video site developed by the makers of Skype and Kazaa, went live last week with 31 advertisers and programming from Viacom, CBS and others. Joost has been in beta for months, which meant existing users could invite a limited number of people to join. Now that the site is out of beta, existing users have unlimited invites. Joost claims to have 100 employees across Europe and the U.S., and says it's working with 20 media and brand advertising companies to develop marketing campaigns for its clients. Some of its advertisers include IBM, GM, L'Oreal, Warner Bros., Nokia and Vodafone. For more on Joost: - - see this article from IT Pro

If you want to make money making Internet Video  - you got to read this article at LightReading. In addition to analyzing the market and opportunities, they have a great up to date chart showing where the best opportunities are for converting your video chops into cold hard cash.

The 2007 MTV Movie Awards is all about the fans this year as MTV rolls out its first-ever user generated category, “BEST MOVIE SPOOF” where you can submit your  original movie shorts parodying films from the past year.  (http://mtvmovieawards.yahoo.com).     And making its return this year is the mtvU Best Filmmaker on Campus award, offering the winner national exposure at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards and a $25,000 development deal with MTV Films. more

Watch this video of Sarah Silverman announcing the nominees in the Best Kiss category.  http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=146325    Who woulda known she would swing that way.....

YouTube to pay content providers  - YouTube has launched a program that will pay content providers on the site. The company will reward contributors of popular YouTube channels on the same playing field as large media partners such as the big studios.

Pure Digital Technologies Flip Video, a new line of digital video capture devices designed to revolutionize how everyday consumers shoot and share video.  These remarkably simple and affordable camcorders feature a major advance in video sharing technology combined with an ultra-portable design and easy-to-use capture functionality. Developed with Internet video sharing software integrated directly into the device, Flip Video is the first camcorder to seamlessly upload directly to YouTube, and other online video sharing sites. READ THE REVIEW

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 by Philip Andrews and Focal Press is a wonderful introduction to how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to fix and manipulate digital images and to create images and graphics for your video productions, DVDs and web sites. No matter your initial level of expertise or graphics competence, you will find this manual to be an excellent guide to how to use the Photoshop Elements program - the easy to use version of the industry standard Adobe Photoshop application. more

Pinnacle offers a range of excellent consumer and prosumer video editing solutions for both PCs and Macs.  Checkout this review of their latest Studio home video editing software plus the new Studio MovieBox Plus which combines software with video capture hardware. This is especially useful if you are editing analog video from old VHS or 8mm videotapes.

ADS DVD xPress - Capture & Burn DVD Movies from Analog Video - Are you trying to create video from your old VHS and analog tapes? It's not so easy. You need a way to easily get your video into your computer. You need what is know as a digitizer - a box that converts your analog video and audio into a digital signal that can be manipulated and edited.

The Webby Awards announced the winners of the Best Online Films and Videos - The winners of the inaugural Webby Film and Video Awards, the first major awards to honor original film and video premiering on the Internet, were announced today with victors ranging from Hollywood heavy hitters like NBC's "The Office Webisodes" to Eepybird.com's pop phenomenon "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments." more

Have you seen the Silver Light? The new Microsoft SilverLight?

Microsoft throws down the gauntlet to challenge Adobe, Google, YouTube and a bunch of others for the future of streaming video and media on the net. Read This

Attention Gootubers - The ads are coming, the ads are coming. According to this article in Red Herring, not only will you be seeing Google ads on the pages surrounding your YouTube Videos but they will be rolling out pre and post roll ads as well.

This is definitely going to take a lot of the appeal out of watching YouTube videos where many of us just like being to quickly taste the video before deciding to watch the whole thing. What's your opinion?

Do YOU Need a small and easy to use video and audio recorder and player? Archos has introduced their new latest Generation 4 line of hard disk-based media players that provide a large-screen experience, video capture, and wireless connectivity more

Internet Video Magazine has added hundreds of new videos more

Apple Unveils Final Cut Studio 2

At NAB, Apple  unveiled Final Cut Studio 2, a significant upgrade to the industry's leading video production suite that delivers new creative tools designed expressly for editors. Final Cut Studio 2 includes Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, Soundtrack Pro 2, Compressor 3, and DVD Studio Pro 4.2. Final Cut Studio 2 also introduces Color, a professional color grading and finishing application for ensuring consistent color and creating signature looks.

Are you tired of waiting around for your video to compress so that you can upload it or post it to a site like Revver or YouTube?  Or, if you are running a site with lots of video, you know how much time you spend waiting for files to convert from the submitted file type to Flash or other streaming format.  Creating web video, especially for long form projects, can take too much time.

At the recent NAB show, Kulabyte  announced that it will be shipping the industry’s fastest video encoding solution, Kulabyte Professional Flash Encoding Suite.  The Kulabyte Professional encoding solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, enabling noticeably improved picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. 

By using KulaByte, media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times faster than industry-standard codec times and deliver higher picture qualities. more

Do you hate to edit? Does editing take up too much time and drive you crazy? Maybe you should try an automatic video editing product like muveeAutoProducer 6 - it makes it simple and fast to create create looking music videos and slide shows. Read the review and article

CBS to offer free webTV streams - Dubbed "the CBS Interactive Audience Network" the American network CBS has concluded content deals with a host of online distributors including AOL, Microsoft, CNET Networks, Comcast, Joost, Bebo, Brightcove, Netvibes, Sling Media and Veoh.

This is a great article from Film & Video Magazine - The new Will Ferrell comedy about a male-male figure-skating pair may seem like an unlikely hotbed for VFX innovation, but the project was in obvious need of a credible ­ and affordable ­ face-replacement technology to create the illusion that Ferrell and co-star Jon Heder were actually skating like pros. A 2D solution was considered but rejected because of the restrictions it would place on the camera and stunt skaters. Instead, Rainmaker Visual Effects developed a full-scale 3D system that used plaster casts, motion capture, and a combination of HD and film acquisition to get facial textures just right. Barbara Robertson has the scoop.
 

Sometimes you just want a small and compact, easy to use digital camcorder that can slide into your pocket. Right? If so, then you ought to check out these two new digital camcorders from RCA - the new Small Wonder digital camcorders. Read the review.

The Arizona Web TV site demonstrates how entrepreneurs are harnessing the power of web video to promote events and businesses within their  communities.

"A new form of television focusing on individual communities and the positive side of life. Our programming is family friendly and "EduTaining", both educational and entertaining on a variety of topics, business and non-business related that appeal to all audiences:
adults, teenagers and children. For example, our "Around Town" show features local events and local businesses, and will soon feature things to do around town, sports, review on restaurants and much more. Check our business show, where guests share the knowledge they often took years to acquire."

If you want to see Michael Eisner's new show, Prom Queen, you will have to get Verizon. His new media studio, Vuguru (http://www.vuguru.com), and Verizon announced that Verizon will carry the studio's first production, Prom Queen, on all Verizon platforms.
    Prom Queen is a scripted, serialized mystery told over 80 episodes -- each running 90 seconds long. Set against the final two months of the school year, Prom Queen has a blend of love, gossip, and betrayal -- all of the twists and turns of high school leading up to the biggest night of any senior's life: Prom Night. more

Ulead VideoStudio Review - Ready to get started with video editing?

Maybe you've some video that you'd like to make into a nice little movie production, complete with transitions between scenes, background music, title text, and some fun video effects.

And you can share your movies as video files for computer playback, or post for friends to view over the Web, or download to a iPod to take with you, or even burn on DVD to watch in the living room.

The new Panasonic SD Memory Card Camcorder  is water-resistant and dust-proof construction.

The lightweight, compact SDR-S10 is equipped with a 10x optical zoom, quick-start technology, and a 2.7" wide LCD. It will ship with a 2GB SD Card capable of holding up to 100 minutes of video (LP mode). more

If you want to make money making Internet Video - you got to read this article at LightReading.

In addition to analyzing the market and opportunities, they have a great up to date chart showing where the best opportunities are for converting your video chops into cold hard cash.

Are your video files just too big? Need to put them on a diet so that you can email them, stick them on your video phone or iPOD, or just share them more easily?  If so, then check out this new FREE program from Buzz 3D Software. We haven't tried it, but they say their new Buzz 3D Media Converter will squeeze your original video content down by as much as 90%. Download it, try it out and tell us how good it is...  ping us at editor AT internetvideomag.com

Interested in Video Surveillance cameras and technology used at the World Trade Center at Ground Zero? Check out how SightLogix, Inc. (www.sightlogix.com), set up an intelligent video surveillance system -- specifically designed for protecting this kind of critical outdoor infrastructure. Article

Adobe just announced its latest video suite for broadcast and web professionals. And its a mouthful - Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium - Aside from offering a total web and video production bundle, the new suite packages together the best from Macromedia and Adobe and also supports Mac operating systems. Some may say yahoo! and while others may simply go "duh, what took so long?". But don't get TOO excited as the package won't be available until the third quarter of 2007 but you can pre-order yours now. more