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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