Here’s an awesome tutorial on building a 3D cityscape in Motion from Andy Neil.
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Average U.S. Viewer Watched 6.4 Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix
RESTON, VA, June 4, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 16.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 16 percent versus March. A significant increase in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s sizeable gains.
Google Sites Accounts for 41 Percent of U.S. Online Video Market
In April, Google Sites once again ranked as …
This is a common question and there are several answers:
First, the Final Cut Pro Canvas has a low quality playback engine that will always show titles and graphics more pixelated and lower quality than the actual quality. Here’s why. Render a title and play it on a real monitor - or render and export a 10 frame test to disk and view to see the true picture.
Read these articles on monitoring: http://www.dvcreators.net/tag/monitoring/ for more info.
If you are rendering to the DV codec, you will see an instant drop in quality. But don’t worry, as long as you …
Neilsen recently released a report on U.S. household video viewing habits. The survey reported viewers spent slightly more (2%) time watching TV in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter of 2008, while time spent watching video on the internet increased 53%.
Still, viewers spend an average of only 3 hours watching video on the internet, up from about 2 hours last year, vs. 153 hours watching TV, vs. 151 last year.
The number of people who watch video on the internet increased 13%, from 115 million to 131 million.
What can we conclude from this survey?
- Well,
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Shooting Awesome Video is the world’s best complete beginning course on shooting high quality video.
If your video footage looks like ”Blair Witch” or “Cloverfield”, and you wish it looked more like “Amelie” or “Hero”, Shooting Awesome Video is the perfect learning experience. It is like a complete “consumer film school” for anyone who wants to dramatically improve the quality of the video footage they shoot.
Shooting Awesome Video is not meant for professionals. It was created for novices who wish to …
Whether you’re a spokesperson, teacher, CEO, video blogger or presidential candidate, you’ll find either PromptDog or PromptPuppy your best friend on the set. They’re both well-trained, well-mannered and great with children.
There are free downloadable trials of both PromptDog and PromptPuppy for Mac OS X, Windows XP & Vista, so, we’d like to prompt you to download one or both and try them yourself - promptly!
PromptDog is our high end, professional prompting software with power user features like a separate, synchronized Talent Window …
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…
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Includes $180 of objects and textures from LiveType Central. (See examples below.)
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This movie shows how to add a folder on your remote server to DV Kitchen, as well as showing some tips and shortcuts along the way.
For more info on DV Kitchen, click here.
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 to calculate the applicable bitrate for encodes.”
“Timefreezer… is another simple, effective and welcome tool.”
“While other encoding tools have attempted FTP upload functionality, none has got it quite right until DV Kitchen.”
“Our overall impression of DV Kitchen is …
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 HTML pages
- publish Quicktime embedded movies with custom poster frames you choose
- publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in Jeroen’s Flash Player* with:
- choice of custom skins*
- custom
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In 1998, I remember hearing about a new editing program called “Key Grip”, written by Randy Ubillos, the creator of Adobe Premiere. It looked like a nice blend of Avid/Premiere-style non-linear editing and After Effects-style keyframing, two programs I had picked up in their 1.0 versions and used for tons of projects.
At NAB 1998, I was ushered to an underground room at NAB, where Randy was demoing the program on Mac and Windows, since renamed “Final Cut”. I met Randy and some of the development team.
In February of 1999, my …
http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
fontfreak
This article lists others
WARNING: Do not go crazy and download every free font, then spend days organizing them and printing sample sheets. You will become obsessed with your font collection rather than getting work done. Instead just grab a font when you need it for a project!
Search for fonts here: typeindex
Wow! Now I know which little consumer camcorder will be my next purchase.
This case is good up to an amazing 130 feet! You can shoot video, or stills with the camcorder flash. This compact and light-weight housing hugs the camcorder like a wet suit, enabling easy on-camera operation and control.
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., February 18, 2009 – Canon U.S.A., Inc, a leader in digital imaging technology, announces an exciting first with its new WP-V1 Waterproof Case for the VIXIA HF20 and VIXIA HF200 Flash Memory Camcorders. Consumers can now dive up to depths of …
“DVKitchen is unique in helping you to determine your ideal settings… very quickly…”
“No other program on the planet has all of these time-saving features ”
“As you play with any of the five sliders, the recommended bitrate budget number updates dynamically! I don’t know any other software tool, at any price, that offers this. ”
“DVKitchen’s TimeFreezer is a tool which very simply and easily helps you to select and then export a still frame from a video clip, in JPG, PICT, or PNG.” - maybe
“Thanks to the built-in FTP client, DVKitchen doesn’t have to stop after encoding your video. The built-in …
I just found a couple websites that estimate visitors to a website. Curious about how we rank alongside some other digital video-related sites that feature advertising, I typed in some URLs, and guess what?
Apparently more cool people hang out at our site than some other popular sites, and since you’re reading this, you are one of the cool people!
Trafficestimate.com estimates 144,200 visits in the previous 30 days.
(Of course, there are a few more popular sites… so we’ll just have to keep working harder to provide ever more valuable info and resources!)
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