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DV Kitchen screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator

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.

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Monitoring your work in Final Cut Pro

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 you work is not telling the truth.

Think of all the ways viewers might watch your project. If you’re delivering on DVD, your show might be watched on plasma or LCD TVs, projectors, or older CRT TVs - but they also might be watching the DVD on …



Adobe adds H.264 video support to Flash

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 lower bandwidth.

Because of so many viewers had the Flash plugin, a couple years ago web video encoders found they could encode video into Flash rather than the triplicate of the past (Windows Media, Real, Quicktime).

But with the release of the H.264 standard there was still one …



Where can I find older versions of Quicktime?

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 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.3.1
QuickTime 6.3 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.0.3

QuickTime 5:
QuickTime 5.0.5

QuickTime 4:
QuickTime 4.1.2
QuickTime 4.0.3



Think the web boom is over? Google Acquires Online Video Site YouTube.com for $1.65 Billion

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1544284,00.html



Slides from Web Video Revolution Seminar

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ffmpeg

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-9 Component

    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



    How do I “Shoot for the Web”?

    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 to the previous and subsequent frame as possible. Every pixel of a frame that is different from the previous frame must be stored in your online movie, which in turn increases the amount of data needed to represent that frame. To keep frames as …



    MPEG Streamclip

    High-quality converter for MPEG files and transport streams, now with AVI/DivX export. MPEG Streamclip is an application that converts MPEG files (including transport streams) into muxed, demuxed, QuickTime, AVI and DV files.

    http://www.squared5.com/



    How do I encode video for the internet?

    If you are on Mac OS X, the best answer is to download the trial of DV Kitchen and read the manual. Also watch the movies on these pages:

    http://www.dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/

    http://dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/features/samplelab

    http://dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/features/timefreezer

    http://dvcreators.net/dv-kitchen/features/bitrate-budget-calculator

     

    Download the free trial of DV Kitchen here.

     

    Ask a question about web video here: http://www.dvcreators.net/discuss/n…o=newthread&f=8