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October 2007 Articles, News Items, Product Reviews
The Teenagers
Guide to Making Movies for the Net
How can you help your teens safely make
great videos for the Internet?
Many of us
have teenagers who want to use our
camcorders and our editing gear and
computers to make movies. Of course, there
are many teens that already have their own
cameras and editing gear, and just need a
little guidance regarding how to best utilize these
resources.
more
 You
don't need to buy any conversion programs - all you need is your
Mac, iMovie, a USB cable and this video -USE
iMOVIE TO CONVERT VIDEOS FOR YOUR PSP!
Do you
want to be able to download and then watch back YouTube videos?
Check out this list of cool programs and how to do it guide.
YouTube Video Tools
Help Sony Music create a new music video for
Tori Amos - Tori Amos Bouncing Off Clouds Green
Screen Video Contest -
The winning video will premiere on Tori's
official website
www.toriamos.com and the Grand Prize
winner plus a friend will be flown to a show
on Tori's US tour!
more
Oprah and YouTube: Made
For Each Other
by Gavin O'Malley
When Oprah speaks, people listen. YouTube's partners have
included MySpace and both of the nation's leading political
parties. Now the omnipresent video-sharing site has reached
a deal with Harpo Productions to distribute the Oprah
channel online. -
Read the whole story...
Free video-editing suites
This is from CNET - There are lots of options regarding video-editing
software. If you have some money to burn, you have a lot of choices,
such as Final Cut, Premiere, and others. But what if you have no money?
We have some solutions for you, too. Get the scoop on free video-editing
software in Peter Butler's post to the Daily Download blog.
Best free video-editing apps.
Best Buy, Amazon Pushing
Different Video Visions - from
Creating what amounts to a
private version of video-sharing
site YouTube, Best Buy this week
launched a video sharing
service.
It differs from YouTube in that
customers have a much smaller
audience and that they have to
pay.
Amazon announced
that for more than 450 of its
top toys this holiday season, it
will offer full videos. It's
unclear whether the videos were
produced by Amazon or the
manufacturers of the
products—although
we're guessing it's the
manufacturers, to start.
Read more.
The
History of Home Movies - The
Evolution of User-Generated Content from the
1890s - 2007
In the
100+ years or so that home movies have been
around, we have seen them evolve from use by
only the extremely wealthy to anyone with a
digital camera or mobile device. If we look
at the major milestones in film and video
development over the years, it’s easy to see
how we got to where we are today. The next
100 years should be equally fascinating!
more
YourSports™ Launches Sports
Media Platform Devoted To
Recognizing
Amateur Athletes That Play ‘For
the Love of the Game’
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Site launches with National
Online TV Programming and Web
Applications on Facebook®
Platform
YourSports announced the launch of
its amateur
sports media platform –
yoursports.com – featuring
internet TV and web applications
dedicated to evolving the way
amateur sports are viewed,
shared and connected. Built by
athletes for athletes,
YourSports recognizes the 93
million amateur sports
participants (athletes, families
and fans) that play
for the love of the game.
YourSports features the
first user-generated nationally
broadcasted highlight show along
with Facebook Platform
applications each designed to
recognize and connect athletes
and fans on both the national
and local levels.
more
Forrester: Hulu
Should Please Advertisers, Viewers
by Gavin O'Malley
Under the tightest controls,
Hulu.com
emerged from the lab on Monday to generally
favorable reviews--or review, given that its
creators had only briefed one analyst.
Forrester analyst James McQuivey was
impressed with both the design features and
business strategy behind the joint venture
between NBC Universal and News Corp., noting
that it has found "the best way to please
advertisers is to maximize viewing of
content." -
Read the whole story...
All About TimeCode - Time code
synchronization is still a big mystery for
 many
audio and video professionals, and as
today's Audio and Video technologies
continue to integrate, having a basic
understanding of time code has become more
and more essential for both studio and field
production. .
more
Internet Video: Boomers Are Finally Coming into Their Own -
I think 2008 is going to be
known as the Year of the Boomer. They are going to want to put
their videos and old films online and join the Web 2.0
generation. How are they going to do it?
more
Is this the goofiest video
contest ever? As you may have
noticed, everyone - businesses
of all types and sizes - no
matter what they make or
actually do, are trying to cash
in on the web 2.0 - Internet
video 2.0 craze by sponsoring
some sort of online video
contest where users create and
submit videos..
See our CONTEST page. This
one though takes the cake - make
a video of you and your oldest
appliance.
The craziest
video entry will receive
Three Brand New GE Appliances
plus $1,000 in Cash!
More
Audio for Professional Video -
While video
editing tools like Sony Vegas+DVD
Production Suite and Adobe Premiere
Pro have strong support for audio,
dedicated audio editing tools,
Sony Sound Forge goes much farther as a
professional digital audio production suite.
It is designed for the entire audio
workflow: record, analyze, and edit
more
Adobe brings BBC iPlayer to Mac and Linux
The BBC has signed a major agreement with
Adobe systems that will see the iPlayer
catch-up TV service available to users of
the Apple and Linux platforms before the end
of the year.
Adobe BBC Press Release
All
About the Flash video format: How to
create it, how to download and
capture online clips, play Flash videos on
the desktop, and how to convert them to
other formats to edit and share.
more
Make Flash Video
Now
World's Dirtiest Film Contest
- hosted by Axe and David Spade.
Are you dirty enough?
Axe & David Spade need your help
creating The World's Dirtiest
Film. Show us how you get dirty,
and how you get clean. All of
our filthy favorites will make
it into the final cut.
This is pretty cool especially
the director section where you
get to clean off a trio of dirty
participants - Plus you can edit
together your own dirty film....
It is the Great American SmokeOut Video
Contest at YouTube. Make a video and win.
More
COMEDIAN/POLITICAL SATIRIST HARRY SHEARER
PREMIERES ‘CRESCENT
CITY STORIES’ ON MY DAMN CHANNEL
Two years
after breached levees caused
flooding that devastated New Orleans, comedian/political satirist Harry
Shearer and My Damn Channel
are returning to the city after
the networks and The President
have gone. Shearer is a longtime
New Orleans
resident who has been creating
original, episodic programming
for My Damn Channel since its
launch in July.
This week he
debuts “Crescent
City Stories,” a
five-week series that features
four local residents whose
stories each tell a different
side of post-Katrina
New Orleans.
MORE
Last year, O2, Endemol Mobile (part of
Endemol UK) and Island Records Group launch an innovative new
broadcast concept, 'Get Close To...' the first show to ever be
filmed exclusively for and broadcast on mobile handsets. At
MIPCOM, they just announced that they will be producing yet
another made for mobile blockbuster thriller.
Full Story
MySpaceTV looks to life after
Quarterlife
MIPCOM: MySpaceTV expects to quickly follow its original web
series Quarterlife, from Emmy winners Marshall Herskovitz
and Edward Zwick, with further big name collaborations as it
continues to push into video.
How
to make HD DVDs with Windows Vista -
I Found Vista's Wow
From Ziff Davis - Somewhere under the Registry and a little
behind the UAC, I found it—Vista’s “Wow.” Okay, okay, that’s
not where I found it. It was actually much easier to locate,
though I did discover it unexpectedly. All it took was
trying a somewhat complicated task:
HD Video-to-PC-to-DVD-to-HDTV
on one of our lab’s Vista machines and there it was, staring
me right in the face. This is good news for me, you, and,
especially, for Microsoft, which has been promising us “Wow”
for months.
Check out this
exclusive
Heartbreak Kid
movie clip
(featuring Carlos Mencia and a rare intro from
Pete Farelly)
This
clip features Carlos Mencia
being accused of offering
his manhood to the wife of
Ben Stiller! Safe-ish for
work!
You are
going to love this site - especially if you thrive on the crass,
disgusting and the revolting.
Its great - for kids, for budding scientists, for those who want
to know how to make their home just a bit more sanitary. Of
course, if you just want to laugh, you'll love it as well. It is
the “That’s Revolting!”
site (www.ThatsRevolting.com)
starring Florence Henderson, America’s favorite TV mom. Shot on
the original (but reconfigured) set of the classic ‘70’s TV
sitcom that made Henderson an American icon, “That’s Revolting!”
features Henderson as the mom in a whacked family that’s
inadvertently passing microbes to each other in a series of
over-the-top comedic videos.
That's Revolting with Florence
Henderson
BrandTV
Offers Tool For Spreading Video News
by Gavin O'Malley
A new online video player, BrandTV from TheNewsMarket.com,
includes syndication and widget-like embedding features so
target recipients--whether company investors and employees, or
TV news producers and consumers--can pick up and share a steady
stream of video news releases. -
Read the whole story...
Help
end cyberbullying by creating a Public Service Announcement
on the issue. Sony Creative Software, the
National Crime Prevention Council and the Ad Council are
seeking entries from independent producers and academic
institutions (K - 12). The top submissions may be eligible
for national broadcast, and their producer or
sponsoring academic institution will receive a complete
multimedia editing suite for their facility or school valued
at over $18,000.more
Microsoft Extends Into TV Initiatives
by Gavin O'Malley
Microsoft will begin marketing media extenders to enable Web
content viewing on the TV and also announced "Internet TV" with
ads powered by YuMe. -
Read the whole story...
Online Video Will
Give Rise To New Semi-Professional Class
by Erik Sass
From: ONLINE MEDIA DAILY
Hollywood, Calif. -- Will the future of online video be dominated by
user-generated or professionally produced content? The answer is "yes,"
according to a panel of execs talking about performance metrics during
the OMMA Video conference in Hollywood on Wednesday. They issued this
prediction when asked how online video can accumulate enough inventory
to compete with network television. -
Read the whole story...
Streaming videos are more popular than
ever
- by
Andrew Beutmueller
Autumn is here, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
and the time when an old man's man’s fancy turns to thoughts
of lots of video-watching in front of a roaring log fire.
That is me I suppose,
but it's also the view of the world according to the latest
edition of the twice-yearly run-down of advertising trends
as researched and compiled by advertising.com. The
statistics show viewing trends such as who is watching what,
when, how old are they, how many are doing it and where?
Nokia inks video deals for N95
News Corp.,
CNN and
Sony Pictures as early
as this week will begin distributing their video content via
Nokia's Video Center on the
N95 multimedia phone. A Nokia representative said the
company hoped to add the links to other phone models in the
future. The Nokia deal negates the need for these content
providers to strike mobile carrier deck deals for this
handset.
The Hollywood Reporter
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CBS 'EyeLab'
Will Give Consumers Bite-Sized Clips
by Gavin O'Malley
If someone's going to be mashing up CBS content, it might as
well be CBS. That's the rationale behind "EyeLab," a digital
production studio just launched by the network to creatively
edit its full-length shows, news programs, and sports
coverage into bite-sized clips for a generation of YouTube-obsessed
dabblers. -
Read the whole story...
The Webby Film and Video Awards, the leading
international honors for original film and video premiering on
the Internet, today kicked-off its call for entries with 19 new
categories including Music, Sports, Technology, and Travel, as
well new technical categories recognizing excellence in editing,
sound design, writing, and use of animation.
To enter
work in The Webby Film & Video Awards, visit
www.webbyawards.com.
The early entry deadline is October 26, 2007.
more
Make Money by Making a BS
video! BS Industries
(www.BSFlag.com),
the maker of the Official BS Flag™
and Official Bullshit Flag™, has
announced that they are now
accepting submissions for their
first Official BS Flag-YouTube
contest. The competition encourages
all aspiring producers, directors
and actors to create and submit an
original short film using either the
Official BS Flag, or the Official
Bullshit Flag, and offers a Grand
Prize of $5,000, a Second Prize of
$1,000, and a third prize of $500.
more
All About the Flash
video format: How to create Flash Video
- How to download and capture online clips,
play Flash videos on the desktop, and how to
convert them to other formats to edit and
share.
more
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