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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 learn …
Some quotes:
“DV Kitchen is a finely crafted application, very easy to use and stable.”
“DV Kitchen has ‘TimeFreezer’, a much better way to make still images from video.”
“…you can have DV Kitchen add the ‘Shadow Box’ effect to movies that you create. It does this with one click and writes the html code for you automatically, sweet.
On SampleLab™:
“This is simply the best way I have ever seen to visually check the quality of your encoded video.”
While writing the review, Ken was annoyed at a couple of things: not being able to name or edit QuickSpecs settings, and the fact the …
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 Kitchen with just a few clicks, since the code is all written for you!
Watch the movie to see how easy it is:
For more info on Shadowbox, visit Mike’s site.
For more …
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 …
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 created in Photoshop, Fireworks, GIMP, Motion, FCP or many other programs.
For now, you need to do one thing to prepare a watermark for DV …
Here’s a note from Jeroen himself:
To get a 30% discount, enter “jwnovdiscount11″ in the reseller code field. This offer expires on November 30, so click here to order now.
Remember, you must buy a commercial license if:
- Your site has ads (Google AdSense, banners, etc.)
- You want to remove the attribution (eliminate the right click link)
- You are a corporation (government & non-profit are free)
- You are a content management system
As always, thanks for your support.
With Kind Regards!
-Jeroen
P.S. if you know ActionScript 3 and are interested in designing plugins, I need your …
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 video to a website, blog, forum, or for a video podcast. You can import movies, encode them, and upload them in as few as two clicks!
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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.
It’s 6 pm, and I’m headed out the door to meet some friends for dinner when I find out there are three movies I need to encode and upload tonight! The client is on the east coast and wants to see the movies as soon as they get in the office. I think, dang! I’m going to have to miss dinner, stay at work until 9 or 10 pm until the movies finish encoding, and then start them uploading with a separate FTP program before I can leave.
But then I remember, I own DV Kitchen!
Here’s the workflow, don’t blink, …
When you’re finished with your edit, you almost always will want a very high quality standalone movie exported.
This way, now or anytime in the future, you can:
- encode this movie to x264, H264, FLV or WMV (or any other format) with DV Kitchen
- drag it into DVD Studio Pro or iDVD to author an SD DVD
- import it into Encore or Toast to author a Blu-Ray DVD
- take it on a Firewire drive to a dub house to transfer to a broadcast format for cable/satellite, or for a film festival
- or any other conceivable use.
You can copy the exported movie to a cheap terabyte …
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, with YouTube.com accounting for more than 4 billion of that total.
More than 4 Billion Videos Viewed at Google Sites
In April, Google Sites once again ranked as the top U.S. video property with more than 4.1 billion videos viewed (38 percent share of all videos), as YouTube.com …
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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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 …
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 …
This will be a kind of blog on the iPhone.
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