Monthly Archive for August, 2008

What just happened to video on the web?

 

What just happened to video on the web?

We are extremely excited to announce that DV Kitchen, the ultimate solution for publishing professional quality video on the web, is available immediately!

Click here to find out all about it and watch the new movies!

DV Kitchen’s primary focus is encoding and uploading broadcast quality, internet-friendly-bandwidth video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as few as two clicks!



Final Cut Express Foundations

NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH DVcreatorsUniversity!

DVcreators.net has been known as the world leader in Final Cut training since the day Final Cut Pro 1.0 was released.We were the training company Apple chose to help launch Final Cut Pro with training on disc, in workshops in over 60 cities and all major trade shows. We have taught alongside Randy Ubillos, the creator of Final Cut Pro (and talked him into adding some cool features to the application!). We’ve helped hundreds of thousands of FCP editors further their Final Cut Pro knowledge. Most of the …



Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene

This innovative research into using high resolution photos in conjunction with lower quality video leads to some very interesting possibilities… the depth mapping conjures visions of adjustable depth-of-field in post, for example.

Check out the video examples:

The work presents a system for automatically producing a wide variety of video enhancements and visual effects. Unlike traditional visual effects software (e.g., After Effects, Shake, Boujou, etc), the system is completely …



DV Enlightenment

NEW MOVIE EXCERPTS!

The DV Enlightenment DVD is a brilliant and highly enlightening course in Hollywood lighting for DV from DVcreators.net for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose.

DV Enlightenment Course Overview

DV Enlightenment Course Intro



DV Kitchen screencast - encoding to FLV and Jeroen’s Player

This movie shows how easy it is to encode to any size, any bitrate FLV movie, upload it, then have DV Kitchen create an entire HTML page for you with window title, page title, movie caption, and Jeroen’s FLV Player, the most popular on the web.

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Watch it in Jeroen’s player here.



Can DV Kitchen take a three hour job down to 8 seconds?

It’s 6 pm, and I’m headed out the door to meet some friends for dinner when I find out there are three movies I need to encode and upload tonight! The client is on the east coast and wants to see the movies as soon as they get in the office. I think, dang! I’m going to have to miss dinner, stay at work until 9 or 10 pm until the movies finish encoding, and then start them uploading with a separate FTP program before I can leave.

But then I remember, I own DV Kitchen!

Here’s the workflow, don’t blink, …

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Let’s talk about mice teeth

We have had a lot of questions on our forums about interlaced video, so I thought I would write a series of articles to clear everything up once and for all! :-)

Where did interlacing come from?

Back in the day, when me and my buddies were developing broadcast television, we were going to model it on film, which took a sequence of photos of reality, so, if a blue circle was moving from left to right, two consecutive frames might look like this:

Instead of the 24 frame per second …



Three new HD AVC format camcorders from Canon

cCanon announced the VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory Camcorder, and the VIXIA HG21 and VIXIA HG20 Hard Disk Drive camcorders.

The newest members to the VIXIA HD camcorder family incorporate 24Mbps bit rate recording - the highest possible bit rate in the AVCHD format.

The VIXIA HF11 Dual Flash Memory camcorder can record up to 12 hours of High-Definition video to a 32GB internal Flash drive, as well as record directly to a removable SDHC card for expanded recording time.

The VIXIA HG21 and VIXIA HG20 camcorders feature 120GB and 60GB Hard Disk Drives, respectively, for recording …



How do I get Final Cut to recognize my camcorder?

If you notice a loss of connectivity between Final Cut Pro or Final Cut Express and your camcorder or deck after upgrading your versions of Mac OS X and QuickTime, here’s what you can do to resolve the issue.

  1. Remove QuickTime receipts:
    1. Go to /Library/Receipts/
    2. Locate the QuickTime receipts files.
    3. Select all QuickTime receipts that have version numbers as part of their names (but don’t select the other QuickTime receipts). Here’s an example of what they look like (you may have different receipts on your computer):
    4. Drag the selected receipts to the Trash.
  2. Download and install the latest version of QuickTime



How are we doing?

I just found a couple websites that attempt to estimate visitors to a website. Curious about how we rank alongside some other video topical sites that feature advertising, I plugged in some URLs, and guess what?

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Apparently more cool people hang out at our site than a lot of other sites, and since you’re reading this, you are one of the cool people!

Trafficestimate.com estimates 134,600 visits in the previous 30 days.

(Of course, there are some larger sites… so we’ll just have to keep working harder to provide ever more valuable info! …



How do I export a high quality movie?

When you’re finished with your edit, you almost always will want a very high quality standalone movie exported.

This way, now or anytime in the future, you can:

  • encode this movie to x264, H264, FLV or WMV (or any other format) with DV Kitchen
  • drag it into DVD Studio Pro or iDVD to author an SD DVD
  • import it into Encore or Toast to author a Blu-Ray DVD
  • take it on a Firewire drive to a dub house to transfer to a broadcast format for cable/satellite, or for a film festival
  • or any other conceivable use.

You can copy the exported movie to a cheap terabyte …