November 21, 2008 in digital video news, web video by Josh
Today, Apple released an update to the iPhone software that includes built-in podcast episode downloading. Why should you care? Here’s why: In the past, you could only watch (or listen to) podcasts on an iPhone by subscribing and downloading on your computer with iTunes, then syncing the episodes with your iPhone. While I’m sure a [...]
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November 20, 2008 in digital video news, web video by Josh
Ten years ago I sat down with a VP of Cisco Systems and told him the future was video on the internet. At the time, he thought video would always be a minor, though growing element. He said “people don’t want to watch video on their PCs, they want to watch video on their TVs.” [...]
Tags: digital video news, DV Kitchen, the digital video biz, web video
November 10, 2008 in web products, web video by Josh
Some quotes: “DV Kitchen is a finely crafted application, very easy to use and stable.” “DV Kitchen has ‘TimeFreezer’, a much better way to make still images from video.” “…you can have DV Kitchen add the ‘Shadow Box’ effect to movies that you create. It does this with one click and writes the html code [...]
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November 10, 2008 in broadcast, broadcast products, location sound, location sound gear by grace
For the last few years we have been searching for an inexpensive wind protection system. While we have featured the professional Sennheiser set-up in the DVeStore, the price point was out of reach for many of us. We just couldn’t justify spending $800+ on a serious package. Alas, RODE has developed a solution for us [...]
November 4, 2008 in digital video news, web video by Josh
Shadowbox is an online media viewer application written by the genius Mike Jackson. When a link or picture is clicked, it veils your web page like dimming the lights in a theatre, then opens a window with a cool animation and plays your movie. You can now shadowbox your Quicktime or Flash movies from DV [...]
Tags: DV Kitchen, FLV, web video
November 1, 2008 in location sound by guy
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