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December 2005
NEW! "Is
It Streaming Media or IPTV?" by Howard Greenfield
‘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?
Read the entire article -
"Streaming Media or IPTV?",
Greenfield,
IPTV, Int'l Magazine.
"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.
Get File Interchange Handbook : For professional images, audio and metadata from
Amazon
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. It provides 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 Desired is 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
If
you got video and need a
place to store it, check out StreamLoad. Great service at a
great price...
Now Playing on a Tiny Screen
at 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 Screen
at 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 show
at
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?
The New iPod with Video.
The ultimate music + video experience on the go.
Buy it now at the Apple Store.
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
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 FireSt ore
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.
TriggerStreet
spotlights the best of the best
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
Toast 7 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
Have you signed up for the
monthly Internet
Video Magazine newsletter? It's free. Get the scoop on
new products, technologies and online videos and movies.
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
Ready to shoot and edit high
definition video but don't want to spend tens of thousands of
dollars? Check out the two
new HD Handycams from Sony
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 demand
more. 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.
Are you looking for an inexpensive way to get
started editing your videos and movies? How does
free strike you? Check out our
Free Video Tools
section and the new
Free Video Editing Tools article
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 Center
more
Also - check
out Doug's round -up of
Portable Media Devices
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
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