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 very favourable. Encoding is quick, extra tools such as the SampleLab are excellent and the program facilitates virtually every encoding eventuality we can think of – and all at a bargain price.”

We are overjoyed with Ben Frain’s incisive, intelligent review. And the Brits once again show they are a bit ahead of the curve- reviews in major U.S. publications are still forthcoming!

Read the entire review here.

Yep, when you see the revolutionary breakthroughs we’ve made in web video publishing, I think you’ll agree it merits a full number upgrade.

We have completely redesigned and rebuilt the Publish Room so that you can:

• publish simple Quicktime embedded movies or whole HTML pages
• publish Quicktime embedded movies with default poster frame or whole HTML pages
• publish Quicktime embedded movies with custom poster frames you choose
• publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in Jeroen’s Flash Player* with:
  • choice of custom skins*
  • custom poster frame
  • custom watermark
• publish Quicktime H.264 or FLV in ShadowBox*
• as well as publishing images and easily copying remote media file URLs.

As you look at these amazing web video publishing options, you’re bound to think, “Hmmm, I’ve already encoded and uploaded movies to web servers for years, wouldn’t it be great if I could republish them using some of these cool new players!”

Well, now you can!

We’ve also added the revolutionary ability to choose a movie from your remote server with a remote media file browser including preview!

You could spend hundreds on other encoding programs but you won’t find these immensely valuable features anywhere else.

We’ve also improved a few other things, the whole list is here.

The 2.0 upgrade is FREE. That’s right, FREE as in just click your “CHECK FOR UPDATES” button and DV Kitchen 2.0 is yours. People think we’re crazy to sell this enterprise-class professional media publishing powerhouse for $79.95, which is true, it should be at least $200 – $300. But we resisted raising the price for now, I think we can hold on just a little longer before it goes up, so if you haven’t purchased yet, now’s the time.

Learn more about DV Kitchen here.

* use of Jeroen’s Flash Player or ShadowBox on a commercial site requires purchase

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.

Allan Tepper, ProVideo Coalition.com, just posted this great article explaining why DV Kitchen is still a necessary tool for the digital video creator even with the latest new features of Final Cut Studio 3!

Here’s an excerpt:

FCP7 brings many welcome exporting/sharing features, but we still need DV Kitchen for the following reasons:

Final Cut Pro 7 fortunately now offers many inboard “sharing” features which were very weak or non-existent before. Now FCP7 allows us to export to multiple formats and destinations in a single job (called “Back-End Batch Capability” in my DV Kitchen review of March 2009). FCP7 even allows us to export “in the background”, so we can keep on editing if we’d like. Thanks to FCP7’s improved integration with Apple’s Compressor, some of the encoded formats can be published directly to web destinations, whether they be MobileMe, YouTube, or even your own FTP server (after you’ve previously made a preset destination for it in Compressor). These are all welcome improvements, which are directly accessible from FCP7. However, DV Kitchen is still a vital tool (especially if you’re encoding for MobileMe, your own web server… or your client’s web server), because it includes the following unique and must-have features not included in FCP7/FCS3 . . .

Read the whole article here:

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/atepper/story/after_fcp7_fcs3_we_still_need_dvkitchen/

“DVKitchen is unique in helping you to determine your ideal settings… very quickly…”

“No other program on the planet has all of these time-saving features ”

“As you play with any of the five sliders, the recommended bitrate budget number updates dynamically! I don’t know any other software tool, at any price, that offers this. ”

“DVKitchen’s TimeFreezer is a tool which very simply and easily helps you to select and then export a still frame from a video clip, in JPG, PICT, or PNG.” – maybe

“Thanks to the built-in FTP client, DVKitchen doesn’t have to stop after encoding your video. The built-in FTP client will memorize all of your FTP servers (or even particular directories/folders) along with their respective passwords. Once that’s memorized, you can assign each encoding job to be FTPed to a particular server when it’s finished. The FTP function also allows you to create new directories/folders, and even examine and delete files that are there.”

“DVKitchen has an amazingly simple user interface, considering how much it does… DVKitchen is really a must-have tool.”

“Even if for some reason you must encode with another tool (I can’t imagine why, but just in case), it still makes sense to purchase DVKitchen if only for the other features.”

Read the whole review here:

http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/atepper/dvkitchen_has_become_a_must_have_video_encoding_publishing_tool/

Ten years ago I sat down with a VP of Cisco Systems and told him the future was video on the internet. At the time, he thought video would always be a minor, though growing element. He said “people don’t want to watch video on their PCs, they want to watch video on their TVs.”

I disagreed, and told him that in a few years it would be the #1 highest traffic driver on the net, and the #1 reason for people to upgrade their (Cisco) routing systems.

As I predicted, internet traffic is skyrocketing, propelled by video.

“The majority of the traffic growth is occurring in the consumer space, driven by consumer Internet or video, whether it is IPTV or frankly even video over the Internet,” said Kelly Ahuja, senior vice president of the service provider routing technology group at Cisco Systems, who provided the following data:

Now let’s look at what type of video is fastest-growing:

Though growth of 300%+ is nothing to sneeze at, what jumps out from this chart is that internet video shown on a TV screen, presently a paltry 332 PB (petabytes), by 2012 is estimated to be 3,458 PB- an increase of over 10x (1,000%) over the next three years.

This means, by the end of 2012, internet video watched on a TV will be more than half the traffic of internet video watched on a computer. If this trend continues, after another few years TV will overtake the computer as the main screen people watch internet video on.

That is not a huge surprise, but what does it mean? Since by 2012 almost everyone will have 1080p widescreen TVs, people will demand far higher quality internet video. No one’s going to watching YouTube video on their 52″ LCD… at least, I hope not!

This bodes very well for the world’s best web video publishing tool, DV Kitchen, and the world’s best “video vending machine”, the MOD Machine.

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 SampleLab window always opened at fullscreen size. He stopped working on the review and went to work adding the features to DV Kitchen.

Now, thanks to Ken Stone, a free update gives you the following features: a lightning bolt icon in SampleLab and the Main Console so you can now name, save and edit QuickSpecs settings, and a preference for SampleLab.

Thanks Ken!

You can read the whole review here.

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 info on DV Kitchen, click here.

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 Kitchen, saving the watermark image as a one frame Quicktime movie with alpha transparency.

The step-by-step process is here:

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

The first time you launch DV Kitchen, it will help you install the world’s best H.264 codec.

If you had any trouble, follow the steps below:

1.	Did you have trouble downloading the codec? If so, just click here to re-download it.
2.	Find the downloaded dmg (disk image). I have my browser set to download to my “Downloads” folder, so that’s where it downloaded to. If it did not open (mount) automatically, double-click the dmg file to open it.
3.	When it is open, you will see its contents in a Finder window like this:
4.	Open a new Finder window (Command N), then navigate to your main hard drive > Library > Quicktime.
5.	Finally, drag the item called x264Encoder.component into your Library/Quicktime folder.

Now you’re all set! Quit DV Kitchen, and the next time you launch it, you will have the world’s highest quality encoding at your fingertips.

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!

Features:

• Spectacular quality video encoding
• Integrated FTP uploading
• SampleLab™
• TimeFreezer™
• Bitrate Budget Calculator
• Batch image resizing, encoding and uploading
• Automatic HTML tag and complete page generation
• 20 day free trial, purchase from within the application

Download the free trial and you’ll be cookin’ up some delicious video within minutes!
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dvcCast! is discontinued, and we are very happy to say DV Kitchen is a FREE UPGRADE for all owners of dvcCast! No typo, that’s FREE as in NO CHARGE. (Hey, no one ever said we don’t take of our customers  )

(To upgrade, just download the free trial and run it.)

DV Kitchen has all dvcCast!’s features, then adds a bunch. Check out the FAQ for the highlights.

Click here for the main DV Kitchen page, with the overview movie, and links to all the other pages and movies.

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, you’ll miss it.

So DV Kitchen’s integrated encoding and uploading has already saved me three hours of waiting around. Remember, this 12 seconds includes launching the application itself! In one day, in one job, DV Kitchen has paid for itself.

I could have encoded the movies tonight, and uploaded them tomorrow, but then I’d be half a day late. In this case DV Kitchen allowed me to get a job done half a day sooner.

The other nice thing about this workflow is that I’m using up my processor power when I’m not using my computer, and I’m using up my office’s bandwidth at night when no one’s on the internet, so it doesn’t slow us down a bit.

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 accounted for 98 percent of all videos viewed at the property. Fox Interactive Media ranked second with 558 million videos (5.1 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 352 million (3.2 percent) and Microsoft Sites with 268 million (2.4 percent).

    Top U.S. Online Video Properties* by Videos Viewed
April 2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University Locations
Source: comScore Video Metrix
Videos               Share (%) of
Property                                (000)                   Videos
Total Internet                         10,999,597                  100.0
Google Sites                            4,159,850                   37.9
Fox Interactive Media                     557,663                    5.1
Yahoo! Sites                              352,359                    3.2
Microsoft Sites                           268,033                    2.4
Viacom Digital                            199,968                    1.8
Time Warner – Excl. AOL                   138,771                    1.3
ABC.COM                                   103,421                    0.9
Disney Online                              98,740                    0.9
AOL LLC                                    95,288                    0.9
ESPN                                       83,424                    0.8

    * Rankings based on video content sites; excludes video server networks.
Online video includes both streaming and progressive download video.

Nearly 135 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 82 videos per viewer in April. Google Sites also attracted the most viewers (83.7 million), where they watched an average of 50 videos per person. Fox Interactive attracted the second most viewers (52 million), followed by Yahoo! Sites (37.3 million) and Microsoft Sites (29.9 million).

Other notable findings from April 2008 include:
–   71 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
–   The average online video viewer watched 228 minutes of video.
–   18-34 year olds were the heaviest viewing segment, watching an
average of 287 minutes per viewer.
–   82.1 million viewers watched 4.1 billion videos on YouTube.com (49.8
videos per viewer).
–   46 million viewers watched 481 million videos on MySpace.com (10.4
videos per viewer).
–   The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.

To request more information about comScore Video Metrix, please visit

http://www.comscore.com/contact

About comScore

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a global leader in measuring the digital world. For more information, please visit

http://www.comscore.com/boilerplate.

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.