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Internet
Video Viewers - the programs you need to
cruise the Internet and watch the various
flavors of Internet movies and animations
Want to get started in video editing but
don't want to spend a lot of money?
Here's a guide to some of the best deals in
video editing - free video editing programs
and applications
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Real
Video Player.
You need to navigate through several pages
to find and download the free Real Player8
Basic. It is not easy to find the free
stuff but it is there.
Free
QuickTime Player from Apple. You can also
upgrade to professional paid versions of the
QuickTime Player.
Windows
MovieMaker - Microsoft's free video editing system is
available for computers running Windows ME
and Windows XP. MovieMaker 2 is a very
interesting and powerful program but is only
available for those running Windows XP. more
MPEG4
Viewer from Envivo
-
download the EnvivioTV player in plug-in
format for both QuickTime and the
RealNetworks player. It is the first
fully ISO MPEG-4 compliant player providing
not only the ability to playback mixed media
content with full digital rights protection
and management, combining high quality video
and audio as well as graphics, text,
animation and interaction with broadcast
content, but also offering maximum
interoperability between MPEG-4 solutions
from different manufacturers.
Why MPEG-4?
Many people view MPEG-4 simply as MPEG-2
with double the compression. This is partly
true but MPEG-4 brings much more than
improved compression. MPEG-4 is a complete
"architecture" or system that
enables broadcasters to deploy a complete,
scaleable solution.
MPEG-4
provides not only the description for coding
audio and video (as its predecessors MPEG-1
and MPEG-2), but also for coding images,
animations, interactivity, protecting
content, and distributing content on various
transport channels-such as an MPEG-2
transport stream for digital broadcast, or
as an IP (Internet Protocol) network for
broadband streaming.
DivX
DivX Viewer
- DivX is quickly becoming a popular codec
for encoding large video files for
downloading over the Internet. The DivX
video software is used by 70 million users
worldwide. This version includes all the
playback and encoding functionality
necessary to watch and create DivX videos.
And what's more, it's completely free for
download! Versions are available for
Windows, Linux and Macintosh.
You
might also check out the new Divx
Showshifter software that converts your PC
into be the ultimate home entertainment
manager: It works with a wide range of Video
capture and TV tuner cards. Check it out -
it converts your computer into a personal
video recorder without having to buy a bunch
of new hardware. more
about DivX
VidBox
began as a
humble piece of software and has slowly been
developed into a very unique and stylish Mpg
video player, if you have a folder full of
Mpg's VidBox is what you are looking for!
Easy switching between Normal and Full
screen View, Artificial Widescreen, Video
loop allows continuous play back of a single
file. PlayAll function will play all the
videos in the list box and then repeat.
TrackBar Control for easy management of play
back volume. Fullscreen keyboard control,
frame advance and other common controls.
EO Video is an advanced media
player, converter and joiner. It supports
all major video, audio and bitmap formats.
You can create a playlist of many different
video, audio and bitmap formats. All major
formats are supported:
- AVI (divx, indeo, mp4,...)
- MPEG
- Apple QuickTime
- Real Media G2
- WindowsMedia
- JPEG, GIF, TIF, - MP3....
Pinnacle
VideoSpin is a fun, easy and FREE way to
make simple video movies from your digital
video files. VideoSpin is a fully
functional gadget which lets you:
Web-based service lets users convert
videos to run on cellphones, iPods,
websites, vlogs; bloggers, designers can
plug converter into any Web site, social
networking pages.
Movavi Online is a free web-based
service that enables users to convert
video from one format to another - for
sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods,
and more. Movavi Online supports the
advanced H.264 format used by Apple's
new iPhone. The new service,
available at
http://online.movavi.com, generates
video files specifically tuned for
viewing in email, on mobile devices, for
video blogging (vlogging) and video
podcasting, and more.
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If you are
looking for an affordable (almost free) and
easy way to add video to your ir Web site,
CoffeeCup Web Video Player 4.7 makes it
simple to convert digital movie files
(MPG, AVI, MOV or FLV formats) to Flash for
publishing on a Web site. You can select
between various player sizes and designs
It enables you to create playlists if you
have multiple movies you want displayed. The
CoffeeCup Web Video Player also includes a
preview tool so you can see what the final
version will look like before uploading to
your site.
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, 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
The two best
video programs for video editing are
probably already on your computer. I am
referring to MovieMaker for Windows XP and
iMovie for Macintosh computers. Both of
these programs are easy to learn and master
with tons of great books and tutorials
available (see
book reviews). In addition, these
programs provide all the features, effects
and titles you need to start creating your
own personal movies that look and sound
great.
Microsoft
Windows MovieMaker - Microsoft's free video editing
system is available for computers
running Windows XP. MovieMaker is a very interesting,
easy to learn and powerful video
editing program but is only
available for those running Windows
XP. more
AVIedit is a great tool to
work with .AVI files.
AVIedit allows you to join
and split avi files, extract frames and do
whatever you want... You can capture video
by number of ways, including
one-frame-per-minute (web camera) option,
workaround annoying 2 Gb file size limit,
send your videos to printer, heavy compress
it and post to your webpage. You can change
frame rate, duration, frame size, color
depth of your videos and other properties,
even without recompression and without loss
of video quality. AVIedit allows you to
convert avi clips to bmp and bmp to avi,
animated GIFs etc.Regardless
of small executable size, this avi editor
offers you unlimited power of digital
video processing. Some high-tech tricks
included into AVIedit allows you to perform
with ease and fun the many interesting
things, like video warping, color restore,
noise reduction and so on.
Adobe
Premiere DEMO - Edit
footage and add special effects with the
industry standard of video editing software.
AVID
Free DV is a free, DV-only version of
its award-winning video editing software.
Planned for both Macintosh OS X and Windows
XP platforms, that enables anyone to step
into the Avid product family and to learn
the industry-standard interface and toolset
used by more professionals than any other
video editing solution. more
AIST
MediaLabMovieXone is afree downloadable video editing
tool for editing, animation, audio and
titling. All this is available as a free
download.
DDClipPro
is a
professional, non-linear, non-destructive,
multitrack, real-time
audio and
video editor for Windows. It allows you
to process and mix up to 32 high-quality
audio tracks (24 bit/96 kHz is available)
with real-time
audio effects (including any
DirectX plug-ins) on PC with any
Windows-compatible sound card. DDClip Pro
is especially effective for scoring video
clips, creating audio commercials,
synchronizing voice with music and mixing
audio tracks with use of real-time audio
effects on audio clips, tracks and entire
mix of project. DDClip Pro is very useful
for recording, processing and mixing music
on PC.
EO Video is an
advanced media player, converter and joiner.
It supports all major video, audio and
bitmap formats. EO Video user interface was
designed for easy and intuitive use.
With EO Video you can convert and compress
video, audio and bitmaps to any AVI and MPEG
formats and combine fully matched AVI and
MPEG clips. You can create a playlist of
many different video, audio and bitmap
formats. All major formats are supported:
- AVI (divx, indeo, mp4,...)
- MPEG
- Apple QuickTime
- Real Media G2
- WindowsMedia
- JPEG, GIF, TIF, - MP3....
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.
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muvee
AutoProducer
-
an amazing program that automatically
combines your video footage with selected
music tracks to create edited videos in a
variety of styles, complete with effects,
transitions, slo-mo; etc. It really works.
Free downloadable TRIAL version has muvee
logo across final screen.
more
www.screenblast.com
- Sponsored
by Sony Entertainment and Sony Consumer
Products, this is a great site geared
towards the neophyte video producer. You can
use pre-made clips from various Sony TV
shows to create your own productions. You
can also download semi-professional programs
like Screenblast Acid, a loop based audio
editing tool; Screenblast Image Editor for
editing and transforming still and digital
images; VideoFactory for editing and
creating video productions; and SoundForge,
a powerful digital sound processing and
editing tool. You can also download a bunch
of video clips and sound effects to use in
your own productions. Finally, this site
enables you to upload and host your final
video productions. Sony provides up to 50 MB
of storage space for your masterpiece.
Ulead
VideoStudio TRIAL VERSION - Edit
and add special effects to your videos with
the latest version of this tool.
EditStudio
v3.0.16
- Edit
your digital video movies and apply
effects using a standard Windows
interface.
VideoMach
is a powerful audio/video builder
and converter tha tyou can use to
create video clips from still
images, enhance recorded material or
convert video, audio and image files
between popular media formats such
as
mpeg, avi, divx, flc, jpeg, png, tif,
gif, bmp and more. It can reads and
write standard Linux and UN*X
image formats (xpm, pnm, sgi,
ras and more; supports most popular
audio formats (mp3, mp2, ogg,
wav, ac3; Imports the output of
high-speed imagers and
time-lapse cameras (bayer, cine).
VideoMach can
convert image sequences to video
files; join video and audio clips to
a single file; rotate, resize and
crop videos to the desired size;
extract images and audio from a
media clip; and change video
and audio codec, data rate,
resolution, aspect ratio and quality
of a media clip. You can also speed
up or slow down video, or a part of
it, add industry-standard video
filters and functions like
Brightness, Contrast, Gamma
Correction, Deinterlace, Mirror,
Motion Blur, Fade In/Out, White
Balance, Sharpen, Emboss and many
more
Additional capabilities include:
World's fastest image sequence
detection, more than 50,000
images per second
Professional-quality MPEG, AVI and
Bayer readers,
video is decoded at highest
quality unlike in most media
players
Fastest software MPEG encoder,
more then 120 frames per second
Can read or write very large MPEG
files, up to million terabytes
Creates industry standard
VideoCD MPEGs by NTSC and PAL
/ SECAM video specs
Connects to both Video For Windows
(VFW) and DirectShow (DS)
interfaces ensuring support for
vaste number of AVI codecs /
subformats
Easy to navigate but powerful AVI
output video / audio codecs
selection dialog
Integrated media player
Works on Windows 95 / 98 / ME /
2000 / XP as well as all
modern Linux distributions
with Wine installed
Fast, compact and reliable installer
with built-in anti-virus check
Zwei-Stein
- this free downloadable video
editing program has been around
around for a long while and can be
found on most freeware and shareware
sites. Check
www.tucows.com or go to the web
site at
http://www.zs4.net.
Zwei-Stein
is a freeware non-linear,
non-destructive video compositing
and editing system which offers many
advanced features unavailable
elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you can
edit up to 256 video, audio and
still image clips, each with up to
64 effects chained serially.
Cropping, panning and custom effects
are easy with automatic key frames.
Movavi Online,
http://online.movavi.com,
is a web-based service that enables users to download and convert video
from one format to another - for sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods,
and more - for free.
Where the first version of Movavi
Online gave users the ability to upload video stored on a PC, the
service upgrade now also enables users to download video from YouTube,
Google, MySpace, MetaCafe and other video-sharing sites. Also, users are
now able to download and watch Flash videos, convert video from the
Internet to AVI, MP4, MPG, 3GP and other formats for use with iPod,
iPhone, PSP, cellphone and other devices, and merge several videos into
one large movie. more
Vidiac Live is
the first true live streaming
service offered for free. Based on
Microsoft's Windows Media 9
Technology, Vidiac is able to
provide vastly improved picture
resolution, quality and frame rate
over typical webcam software.
more
Real
Video Helix Producer-
Helix Producer
converts live and/or existing audio
and video files into RealMedia
files, ready for delivery on the
Internet or corporate intranet.
FREE. For an extra $200, you can get
Helix Producer Plus that provides
enhanced quality, flexibility and
productivity capabilities.
Check
out Unreal
media server - a non-commercial
media delivery system for Windows
platforms, similar in performance to
MMS, supports all file types. TechTV
channel had a program about it
at November 13 2003. Both
media files (VOD) and live media
streams are supported. No need to
re-encode your existing media files!
We stream AVI, MPEG (MPEG-1), WMV,
MP3, QuickTime, and any other format
supported by Microsoft DirectX. Live
media sources include: digital
cameras, microphones, analog video
sources (analog camera, TV-DVD-VHS)
connected to Video card or to
FrameGrabber card that supports
DirectShow interface. Live video
content is compressed with MPEG- 4
codec in real time; MP3 or GSM
formats are used for live audio
compression.
Check
out Flash
AV Player. The Flash AV Player is
a very cool, skinable Flash
application for both Mac and Windows
that can stream folders of MP3, SWF
files & JPEG files by loading
all necessary playlist information
from an XML file. It is made to
broadcast any media content : from
an MP3 file to a QuickTtime movie.
This is a great way to package your
videos for the web. Click on the AV
Players to see the various
samples. The Concorde and Read My
Lips videos are great.
Share
Video Captures and Huge Files for
Free - Two terrific tools: Jing
gives you smart, painless video and
screen captures; TransferBigFiles
lets you share files of up to 1GB in
size....
Web-based service lets users convert
videos to run on cellphones, iPods,
websites, vlogs; bloggers, designers can
plug converter into any Web site, social
networking pages.
Movavi Online is a free web-based
service that enables users to convert
video from one format to another - for
sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods,
and more. Movavi Online supports the
advanced H.264 format used by Apple's
new iPhone. The new service,
available at
http://online.movavi.com, generates
video files specifically tuned for
viewing in email, on mobile devices, for
video blogging (vlogging) and video
podcasting, and more.
more
If you want to
capture video from YouTube - you should
check out
DVDVideoSoft.com
and
Vixy.net.
allows
you convert a Flash Video / FLV
file (YouTube's videos,etc) to
MPEG4 (AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP) file
online. It is using a compressed
domain transcoder technology (outline
in Japanese). It converts
FLV to MPEG4 faster and less
lossy than a typical transcoder.
When you submit an url, it will
download and convert to the
video format. Then you can
download the converted file.
Also read this
article - 2 Cool Tools For Online Video
Unless you live under a rock, you know by
now that online video represents the hottest
thing to hit the Internet since the
invention of the modem.
Check
out Virtual VCR -
a small, free and versatile DirectShow video
capture application designed to work with TV
tuner and video capture cards that have WDM
drivers
Capture Studio
Professional v4.01 -
Capture
Studio Professional is a basic video and
still image capture utility for use with
your TV capture card or Web cam. Built-in
features include time-lapse image capture,
video compression, and diagnostic tools.
It's compatible with all VDW, WDM capture
drivers, and you can save individual frames
from an AVI file as JPG, GIF or BMP. Capture
Studio Professional also supports the DivX
Codec, which you can download separately.
Download
from PC World.
CapTV
is a capture control program that resides in
your task bar. At the run time is mostly
present as single window (no fancy controls
or rounded corners :) with all possible
functions accessible via mouse menu. Highly
customizable mouse response, gives maximum
control over the capture preview and capture
its self. Included features:
Capture
to AVI using any installed video
codec.
Capture
to clipboard.
Capture
BMP/JPG sequence.
Runtime
Image selection (Image Grid)
Full
screen view up to 1600x1200
resolution.
Breaks
the 2GB AVI limitation (by auto
file split).
Multiple
Capture device selection. (if
more than one present)
Multiple
Timed Capture just like a VCR!
TV
Channel select (for BT848/78 TV
boards or any TV board with
drivers that offers standard
intermediate DLL for TV control)
ASF
Recorder - Capture
Windows Media audio and video streams and
view them offline
.SnapStream
PVS v2.0 - Digitally record and watch TV
video on your PC, or over any network.
Alias|Wavefront
is announcing a free version of their Maya
program. Called the
Maya Personal Learning Edition, it
grants anyone with the desire to learn more
about Maya, or 3D computer graphics in
general, a seat of Maya for non-commercial
use - registration renewable yearly.** Those
using the Personal Learning Edition will
have unrestricted access to the full feature
set of Maya Complete including NURBS
modeling, animation, inverse kinematics,
Maya Artisan, Maya Paint Effects, particles,
dynamics and Maya’s advanced rendering
capabilities. The Maya Personal Learning
Edition restricts users to non-commercial
applications through the display of a
watermark on images as well as through the
use of a special non-commercial file format.
Maya Personal Learning Edition cannot be
used with industry-standard plug-ins.
Available in February 2002.
Looking for
a source for free downloadable background
animations which all loop perfectly. The
site's in German though, but the free
content is easily accessible. Check out http://www.2d-media.de
