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Biz Break: Forget 3-D; consumers want their Internet TV – SiliconValley.com

July 30, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

You may be hearing a lot about expensive 3-D televisions. However, consumers are far more interested in buying TVs with built-in Internet capabilities, according to a report today from tech researcher iSuppli. “Despite aggressive promotions from the industry and intense consumer interest generated by the blockbuster ‘Avatar’ and other titles, the 3-D TV market in [...]

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Google TV

July 28, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

TV meets web. Web meets TV. Google TV is a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet. Watch an overview video below, sign up for updates, and learn more about how to develop for Google TV. via Google TV.

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USC Intellectual Property & Technology Law Clinic Wins Copyright Exemption for Filmmakers

July 26, 2010 in delivery, digital video news, film, production by Josh

A team of USC Law students from the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Clinic has helped secure an exemption that will allow documentary filmmakers to use material contained on DVDs and other sources that were previously off limits. The exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was announced today by the United States Copyright [...]

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Premiere Pro CS5 Stereoscopic 3D Video Editing with Dave Helmley | Stereo Pictures Real 3D Films

July 22, 2010 in editing, post production by Josh

Here is a 7 part series in which Dave Helmly from Adobe walks you through a complete 3D Stereo workflow with Premiere Pro CS5. This is a start to finish workflow and a must see for anyone getting started with 3D Stereo video shooting and editing or just interested in the technology and the whole [...]

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YouTube 3D coming within a year

July 22, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

A Sony exec revealed that YouTube would be part of Sony’s upcoming 3D offering. Mick Hocking, a studio exec at Sony, last week was drumming up support for Sony PlayStation’s future capability to game in 3D when he let loose this little tidbit: YouTube will be supporting 3D content over the next 12 months as [...]

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Mobile Video On Steep Growth Curve — Mobile Services — InformationWeek

July 19, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh

Mobile Video On Steep Growth Curve Revenue from video telephony, video messaging, and similar services is projected to grow from $121 million in 2010 to $2 billion in 2013, says ABI Research. By Esther Shein, InformationWeek Mobile video services revenue from video telephony, video messaging, video sharing, video on demand, VoD downloads, and other video services [...]

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On a budget? Pimp your new Canon EOS Rebel T2i / 550D with essential accessories! Part 1: BASIC LENSES | Nino Film – Blog – Nino Leitner

July 16, 2010 in cinematography, production by Josh

Essential kit for your Canon T2i/550D if you’re on a budget: Part 2: Batteries, Memory Cards & Bags Part 3: Depth of Field, Aperture & ND filters After posting my early review of the new Canon EOS T2i / 550D and the test short “FEBRUARY“ and the overwhelming response (50.000 views of the clip so [...]

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Google creates $5 million fund for YouTube content creation awards

July 13, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

* By: Heather Gordon Since 2005, YouTube has been all about user-generated content. But competing in a Web environment where premium video sites like Hulu attract valuable hits has made YouTube’s owner, Google, think more about how to up the ante on content creation. Their newest idea? Reward talented YouTube partners with cold, hard cash. [...]

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In Review: Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 at DV magazine

July 13, 2010 in editing, post production by Josh

Adobe is leading the pack when it comes to system performance, and offers a much-improved NLE. By Oliver Peters Adobe is shipping its much-anticipated Creative Suite 5. The video applications are available either as single products or bundled in the Master Collection or Production Premium suite. Most video editors will be interested in the latter, [...]

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Can I cut the cable now!? | Home Theater | Playlist | Macworld

July 12, 2010 in broadcast, delivery, web video by Josh

With Hulu Plus and better streaming content from Netflix, it may finally be time to cut the TV umbilical by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com Nearly a year ago, I offered tips for cutting the cable bill. In that article, I extolled the virtues of free TV ala Hulu; TV network sites; such media center applications as [...]

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We’re redoing our website!

July 9, 2010 in digital video news by Josh

Bear with us while things are are little wonky!

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TVB | Moscow Lab Compares H.264 and Google’s VP8

July 8, 2010 in delivery, web video by Josh

MOSCOW: The Graphics and Media Lab at Moscow State University recently released the results of its comparison of Google’s WebM VP8 codec with MPEG-4/H.264. VP8 is a royalty-free, open-source codec recently released by Google for compressing online video. H.264 encoders are fee-based. The release of VP8 sparked an ongoing debate about its quality compared to [...]

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Canon releases XF305 AND XF300 camcorders

July 1, 2010 in digital video news by Josh

Both new models employ an MPEG-2 4:2:2 50Mbps codec – Canon XF Codec – for capturing and recording native 1920 x 1080 video onto affordable, universally available Compact Flash (CF) cards. Uniting video, audio and metadata into a single file, the Canon XF305 and XF300 use an MXF (Material eXchange Format) File Wrapper, a widely [...]

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DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

April 3, 2010 in digital video news, web products, web video by Josh

A few quotes: “DV Kitchen, from DV Creators, costs little more than a budget video encoder, yet offers a host of professional features.” “SampleLab allows bitrate data size/quality trade-offs to be gauged quickly and accurately. It’s simple to use but incredibly useful, and therein lies its genius.” “The Bitrate Calculator is a useful, foolproof way [...]

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DV Enlightenment

March 1, 2010 in cinematography, lighting, self-paced training by Josh


DV Enlightenment is an illuminating lighting course 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.


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The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

February 21, 2010 in web products, web video by Josh

Yep, when you see the revolutionary breakthroughs we’ve made in web video publishing, I think you’ll agree it merits a full number upgrade. We have completely redesigned and rebuilt the Publish Room so that you can: publish simple Quicktime embedded movies or whole HTML pages publish Quicktime embedded movies with default poster frame or whole [...]