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Articles and Trends
Do you need a music
soundtrack to add emotional depth to your video productions? Even if
you're a musician who can compose, play, and record your own scores,
that's still a lot of work. The answer for many producers is an
automated soundtrack tool. Check out the latest from SonicPro and
from Sony. All about SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 and Sony Media
Software Cinescore. Both of these soundtrack creation tools now
allow you to drill deeper into customizing the score by actually
adjusting the mix and mood of the soundtrack elements, providing a
whole new level of control over the emotional feel of the piece in
sync with the visuals.
more
Guys -
do you get
Menstrual Cramps
-
http://menwithcramps.com/
- This might be the best spoof site ever. This is incredible. Fake
commercials documentaries, testimonials, call for action. Amazing.
Send this to your male friends who need something extra to whine
about - share this with female associates who are complaining about
their periods. Its extremely well conceived and implemented.
Here is
the first of the series of videos.
Men With
Cramps. The Bowels Of History - Part I
(2006) - The
true meaning of mankind's oldest cave paintings tell about the
trials and tribulations of early Man.
1 min 43 sec. You can watch all seven
episodes at iFilm
Did
you go to the Vloggies? Are you a vlogger? (Video Blogger)
Check out the reports at
Geek
Entertainment TV, an
emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble
as it re-inflates. GETV covers buzzword compliant topics such as web
2.0, tagging, AJAX, social software and the bubble juice known as
VCs.
Looking for a great
way to edit and clean up your digital images without having to pay
big bucks for a software product? Check out GIMP. It runs on
Windows, Macs, Linux - if you are an open source fan, you got to
check this out.
GIMP is the GNU Image
Manipulation Program.
It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as
photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It
works on many operating systems, in many languages.
more
This looks like fun.
Doritos is partnering with Yahoo to give you the change to win
prices and big bucks by creating your own commercial that will be
played during the Super Bowl. That might be a nice way to promote
your career, eh? Here's the deal. Think of an idea for a DORITOS
commercial. Maybe it's a story about the first time you tried
DORITOS or what life is like for the spices on the surface of the
chip. Anything. Make the video you'd be excited to see if you were
watching TV. Make it yours. Shoot it. Submit it. If the judges place
it in the top five best videos, you'll win $10,000 dollars and a
trip to Miami for a private Super Bowl XLI viewing party. Then, if
America votes it their favorite, your video will be aired as a real
DORITOS commercial on Super Bowl XLI.
Get started.
If you
are film maker or video maker looking for a great source of
info about film festivals all over the world - you got to check out
Withoutabox.
It was founded in January 2000 to serve as a network for independent
filmmakers and their films - to directly access film festivals, film
buyers, and film audiences throughout the world and to manage those
relationships and transactions from a central console.
Yahoo to launch Web site
devoted to food
- With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal
Yahoo Inc. is launching a new site devoted to food that will feature
videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray
and Martha Stewart.
Most of the content
will come from partners, including Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia,
Wolfgang Puck, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Food & Wine, Epicurious,
Cook's Illustrated and Reader's Digest. There will also be original
content, including an online video show called "Cheap and Easy" and
contributions on regional cuisine from 13 columnists from around the
country. A database of thousands of recipes will be available
through a partnership with allrecipes.com. The idea for the site
came from the 1.5 million food-related searches on the site each
day, most of which come around 4 p.m., Brown said.
Yahoo Food aims to
hold people's attention after they have found a recipe by offering
cooking demonstration videos and lavish photography and layout that
Brown refers to as "food pornography."
Recent News and
Press Releases
Sorenson Media is shipping Sorenson Squeeze 4.5
for both Macintosh and Windows operating systems
New Features:
- Up to 3x faster than Squeeze 4.3
- DVD disc burning
- New 3GPP, PSP, Blu-ray and HD-DVD Presets
- Reading and writing metadata for all major
output formats
- Works natively on both PowerPC and
Intel-for-Mac using Mac Universal Binary code
- Integrate Apple's H.264
more
Diamond
Multimedia (www.diamondmm.com),
has begun shipping two PCI-E versions of the X1950PRO with AGP
versions in December. The Viper X1950PRO represents the pinnacle of
achievement in a wide-ranging series of high-performance graphics
cards produced by Diamond and featuring the powerful ATI Radeon®
chip that outperforms any other single or dual-slot solutions. This
card uses the Radeon X1950 GPU and comes in both 256MB and 512MB
GDDR3 interfaces. It has a core clock speed of 575MHz and a 1.38GHz
memory speed. It supports Dual DVI (x2 Dual-link), HDTV, D-sub and
VIVO.
more
Bella Corporation announced the immediate
availability of their latest product, the DV Keyboard 3.0. Designed
for the home video enthusiast, the DV Keyboard offers Bella’s unique
built-in jog/shuttle controller – the world’s first and only
keyboard to offer this feature. The jog/shuttle controller allows
users to edit faster and more efficiently, offering precise control
over their audio and video clips.
more
Velocity
Micro announced the availability of ultra-performance machines based
on the groundbreaking Intel® Core™ 2 Extreme QX6700 and Intel® Xeon™
5300 series processors. The new CPUs, which fit four execution cores
in a single CPU package, can be ordered in Velocity Micro’s ProMagix
line of workstations and in select Raptor series gaming PCs.
“The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is a performance powerhouse for
high-end and enthusiast users who need a machine on the cutting edge
for today and tomorrow,” said Randy Copeland, Velocity Micro
President and CEO. “Our new machines based on the CPU bring
unprecedented performance gains in highly threaded multimedia
applications and games, and in multitasking scenarios.”
more
EyeWonder announced the
full release of its all-new AdWonder™ Flash Component and
Certification program. EyeWonder's new Flash module enables agencies
to dramatically improve production efficiencies creating Online
Video and Rich Media Ads. The new Certification Program enables
creatives to highlight their expertise with the Component.
more
Alienware®
the leading manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook,
media center and professional systems is continuing to feed the
needs of graphic-hungry users. The PC maker will equip its most
powerful desktops with the unprecedented new NVIDIA® GeForce(TM)
8800 GTX graphics processing units (GPU) in single or dual-GPU mode
with NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology. Customers purchasing award-winning
Area-51® 7500, Aurora(TM) 7500, and ALX desktops will be able to
configure their systems with the industry's first GPU to be fully
compliant with next-generation DirectX 10 games and applications.
more
Other World
Computing (OWC)
announced the introduction and immediate availability of the new
pocket-sized, totally bus-powered, OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro
FireWire 800/400+USB2 portable storage solutions which utilize
performance Serial ATA (SATA) 2.5" Hard Disk mechanisms to provide
capacities of up to 200GB and priced starting from just $209.99. The
OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro is the first-ever pocket sized,
2.5" SATA HD-based storage solution available to consumers.
more
The Financial Times has
launched an exclusive series of video interviews with global
business leaders called View From The Top. The interviews,
hosted by ROO Media, the global provider of online video technology
and syndicated content, feature global CEOs giving their views on
the world of business today and predictions for the future of their
industries. Since launching View From The Top FT Video
traffic has quadrupled.
more
It's sort of like
MySpace for home do-it-yourselfers!
BobVila.com, one of the
Internet’s most-visited and longest-running home improvement
websites, has launched a “MyProjects” site that allows users to
incite communication with one another through the sharing of ideas,
photos and videos in a blog area. This has been created in
conjunction with the new season of the “Bob Vila” nationally
syndicated series.
more
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