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DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:55:03 +0000

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 [read more →]

The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

Josh Mellicker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:19:07 +0000

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 [read more →]

Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:06:25 +0000

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.

"After FCP7/FCS3… we still need DVKitchen!"

duncan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:34:14 +0000

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 [read more →]

DV Kitchen gets another awesome review! This one from Allan Tepper.

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:06:11 +0000

“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, [read more →]

Video Is No Longer The Future of the Internet. It's the Present.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:38 +0000

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 [read more →]

Ken Stone writes glowing review of DV Kitchen

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:58:58 +0000

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 [read more →]

DV Kitchen adds Shadowbox support

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:28:00 +0000

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:

[read more →]

Watermarking added to DV Kitchen!

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:48:35 +0000

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 [read more →]

How do I install the x264 codec for DV Kitchen?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:54:56 +0000

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 [read more →]