Engadget is reporting on some leaked images and specs from a new Dell monitor that is supposed to be released this fall.  At 30-inches, 2560×1600 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and 7ms response it bests the new 27-inch Cinema Display in a few areas.  If you’re in the market for a 30-inch monitor, it might be [...]

Canon has recently released new firmware for their EOS 7D. From the Canon website, it fixes the following issues: Firmware update Version 1.2.2 incorporates the following improvements and fixes: 1. Fixes a phenomenon in which the set aperture moves when shooting movies in manual exposure mode using some lenses (such as macro lenses). 2. Fixes [...]

Ok, so digital isn’t quite at the level of real film just yet.  But, it’s getting pretty darned close.  Zacuto has put together a series to demonstrate some of the new HD-DSLRs and how they stack up against some beloved 35mm film.  Their line up includes the 5D MKII, 7D, 1D, T2i, Nikon D3s, and [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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Our downloadable software products and tutorial courses offered through our DVcreators University make great gifts for any digital video creator! If any of your friends, family or workmates own a camcorder, “Shooting Awesome Video” is now available for direct download on both Mac OS X and Windows! To gift a DVcreators.net downloadable product, complete the [...]

Reflecmedia – Green and Blue screen Chromakey Traditional chroma key involves a complex professional studio setup with a large blue or green screen background. Reflecmedia’s innovative range of flexible, portable, safe* and easy to use products mean that with minimal lighting and technical expertise almost any location can be used as a virtual studio at [...]

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 [...]