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 [...]

Due to popular request, we’re excited to announce we’ve added watermarking to DV Kitchen! This movie shows the complete process of creating a watermark from scratch in Final Cut Pro, exporting and prepping it, then bringing it into DV Kitchen and applying it to a movie. You can start with a normal watermark image you [...]

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 [...]

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. Watch it in Jeroen’s player here.

dvcCast!’s integrated encoding and uploading saves three hours of waiting around. $845.23

When you’re finished with your edit, how should you export? Well, it depends. METHOD #1. Reference movie If you want to export a temporary file as quickly as possible, export a reference movie. File > Export > Quicktime Movie UNcheck “Make Self-Contained” Pros: If you’ve rendered your sequence, this is the fastest way to export [...]

18-34 Year Olds Viewed Nearly 5 Hours of Online Video per Person during the Month RESTON, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, [...]

The DV Kitchen Bitrate Budget Calculator is a sophisticated modeling algorithm that takes five factors into account to help you determine what your movie’s bitrate limit should be based on your particular situation.

When you’re EDITING, you can make good decisions just watching the Canvas Window on your laptop. But for color grading, it’s critically important to watch your show on a monitor that’s displaying an accurate image. Monitoring is important because all your color grading work is going to be off if the monitor you’re watching while [...]

When Flash first incorporated video in version 6, they chose the “Spark” Sorenson 3 codec. A good choice, that was the best encoding quality at that time. In the following years, several companies developed encoding algorithms that were clearly higher quality. Flash 8 then added the On2 VP6 codec, which again delivered higher quality at [...]

You can find older Quicktime versions on Apple’s site:QuickTime 7: QuickTime 7.4.1 (Leopard) QuickTime 7.4.1 (Tiger) QuickTime 7.4.1 (Panther) QuickTime 7.4 (Leopard) QuickTime 7.4 (Tiger) QuickTime 7.4 (Panther) QuickTime 7.3.1 (Leopard) QuickTime 7.3.1 (Tiger) QuickTime 7.3.1 (Panther) QuickTime 7.2 QuickTime 7.1.6 QuickTime 6: QuickTime 6.5.3 QuickTime 6.5.2 QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller for QuickTime 7.0.1 QuickTime 6.4 [...]

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FFmpeg is a cross-platform, open source audio/video conversion tool. It includes libavcodec, the leading open source codec library. An experimental streaming server for live broadcasts is also included.Download here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffmpeg/ ffmpegX is the OS X version.

Flip4Mac™ WMV is a collection of QuickTime components that allow you to play Windows Media video and audio files on your Mac using your favorite QuickTime-based applications. Here is the product line: http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm

When shooting video for delivery on the internet, keep the following in mind:   Shoot everything tighter Smaller movies mean you need to make your subjects bigger. Close-ups provide energy and detail even at small screen sizes. Minimize camera movement The key element in great looking low-bandwidth video is to keep each frame as similar [...]