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.

Want to view your project out to an HD monitor? Add the incredible quality of HDMI to your computer. Intensity features the latest HDMI technology for the highest quality capture and playback on Windows or Mac OS X computers. Now you can edit using big-screen HDMI televisions and video projectors, or capture uncompressed quality from HDV cameras. Intensity features HDMI-in for connecting to cameras and digital set-top boxes for the highest quality

Intensity Pro is the first card to combine the high quality of HDMI capture and playback with the wide compatibility of analog component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video and analog audio capture and playback. It enables users to capture directly from the HD camera’s image sensor, bypassing the video compression chip for true uncompressed video quality. Now users can go beyond the quality limits of HDV for editing, design and authoring with Intensity Pro.

Intensity Pro can be connected to any big screen television or video projector for incredible edit monitoring. Current computers don’t have the processing speed to render complex multi later real time effects in HDV playing back to FireWire cameras. Intensity solves this problem by outputting video on HDMI and analog outputs for big screen monitoring in both SD or HD formats.

On-Air Software for Real Time Video Mixing
Included with every Intensity Pro card for real time video mixing is the popular On-Air software. On-Air allows customers to plug in two Intensity or Intensity Pro cards into a computer for two camera mixing for live video production.

Intensity Pro instantly switches between the 1080 HD, 720 HD, NTSC and PAL video standards. Intensity Pro is fully compatible with Adobe Premiere Pro, Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Photoshop and any DirectShow or QuickTime based software application on Windows and Mac OS X platforms.

Tested and works when capturing via HDMI to FCP with the ProRes 422.

Intensity Pro Features
• HDMI video and audio capture and playback.
• Analog capture and playback in component, NTSC, PAL and S-Video.
• Stereo analog audio capture and playback.
• Capture and playback DV, HDV, Online JPEG and uncompressed video.
• Use for edit playback monitoring on televisions and video projectors.
• HDMI and Component switches between HD and SD.
• Real time effects supported in Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Live production editing with Blackmagic On-Air mixing software with two cameras.
• Video capture and playback with Blackmagic Media Express utility.
• PCI Express 1 lane for compatibility with 1, 4, 8 and 16 lane PCI express slots.
• Compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X Universal.
• Includes breakout cable with RCA-type connectors for analog video and audio.

Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro

Availability: Usually ships same/next day.
Our Price: $199.00

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.

When you’re finished with your edit, how should you export?

Well, it depends.

METHOD #1. Reference movie

If you want to export a temporary file as quickly as possible, export a reference movie.

File > Export > Quicktime Movie

UNcheck “Make Self-Contained”

Pros:

• If you’ve rendered your sequence, this is the fastest way to export
• The file size is very small – it only contains audio and pointers to the video files, no actual video

Cons:

• The exported file is fragile and not portable. If any of the referenced video files (including render files) are moved, renamed or deleted, or if the ref movie is moved to a different computer, the reference movie will not open. This means you should use the ref movie right away, for example, to import into DV Kitchen to publish on the web. It is definitely useless as an archival movie to save for future use.
• If your sequence is in DV format, the quality of text, graphics and animations will be very poor.
• If your sequence is in HDV format, the quality of text, graphics and animations will not be as good as it could be, especially fast moving or intricate CG.

If you are converned about quality, try a short test export of a section containing titles, graphics or an animation and view it in Quicktime Player.

METHOD #2. Native format movie

If you want to export quickly, but want an exported movie that is permanent and self-contained, export a native format movie.

File > Export > Quicktime Movie

Make sure “Make Self-Contained” is checked

Pros:

• If you’ve rendered your sequence, this is faster than the 3rd option below

Cons:

• If your sequence is in DV format, the quality of text, graphics and animations will be very poor.
• If your sequence is in HDV format, the quality of text, graphics and animations will not be as good as it could be, especially fast moving or intricate CG.

METHOD #3. lossless PNG movie

If you have completed an important project, and want a perfect quality export, and don’t mind if it takes a while, this method quickly, but want an exported movie that is permanent and self-contained, export a PNG codec movie.

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 Firewire or even USB drive to archive it and save room on your main drives.

I recommend the PNG codec, because it is lossless, and it is compatible with almost any software that accepts Quicktime files.

If you are concerned with how long it will take, try a test export (with a 5 second sample) and time it, then try one of the methods above and time that. This way, you can easily calculate how long the entire export will take. If the 5 seconds took 10 seconds to export, this is a 2-1 ratio- so a 2 hour timeline will take 4 hours.

Here are the steps:

That’s it!

Now your exported movie is safe and ready to delivery in any format – regardless of what happens to your source footage or files.

For more info, check out:

Final Cut Pro Foundations

Final Cut Express Foundations

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.

Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.

However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should!

If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or 12-bit), you will often hear clicks, pops, and audio dropouts while editing, which is distracting for your creative process, and in many cases your audio will require rendering before you can even hear it, which sounds like “beep-beep-beep-beep” and wastes a lot of your time.

Our solution is to batch convert all audio to 48KHz, uncompressed, stereo or mono for editing before importing.

We use DV Kitchen for this, it comes with a preset already designed for this.

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 more shoe to drop. H.264, as we predicted when we first saw it, will become the standard for web and DVD encoding, due to its unprecendented quality and low bandwidth. Apple talked YouTube into re-encoding videos into H.264 for compatibility with the AppleTV and iPhone.

Adobe has now announced that Flash will handle H.264 video, allowing web encoders both the advantage of the highest possible quality and compatibility with the widest number of viewers on all three platforms. Flash will also play AAC audio, a higher quality codec than MP3.

Adobe is smart- Flash is still everywhere on the web, but if they took a course of ever more proprietary non-standards, Flash would eventually go the way of Real and Windows Media- still out there but I doubt we’ll see any in a couple years. This keeps Flash as a good choice, often the best choice for authoring rich media web experiences.

Tinic Uro, an engineer on the Flash Player, shares some insight here.

Flash Player 9 beta is available now, here.

You can find older Quicktime versions on Apple’s site:QuickTime 7:
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.4.1 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.4 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.4 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.4 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Leopard)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Tiger)
QuickTime 7.3.1 (Panther)
QuickTime 7.2
QuickTime 7.1.6

QuickTime 6:
QuickTime 6.5.3
QuickTime 6.5.2
QuickTime 6.5.2 reinstaller for QuickTime 7.0.1
QuickTime 6.4 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.3.1
QuickTime 6.3 reinstaller
QuickTime 6.0.3

QuickTime 5:
QuickTime 5.0.5

QuickTime 4:
QuickTime 4.1.2
QuickTime 4.0.3

1. Download iTunes from Apple
2. Double click iTunes Setup.exe to install
3. Launch iTunes
4. Go to the Edit Menu > then click Preferences
5. Click on the Advanced tab
6. Then click on the Importing tab
7. Now, in the “Import Using” dialog box, choose .WAV Encoder.
8. Then in the “Setting” dialog box, choose “Custom”
9. For “Sample Rate” choose 48 kHz.
10. For “Sample Size” choose 16-bit.
11. For “Channels” choose Stereo.
12. Then click OK.
13. Then OK again, to close the Preferences Box.Now your preferences are set up to convert audio files to an uncompressed file that will play smoothly in your editing software.
14. Now, insert a CD, or drop MP3s, AACs or files in many other kinds of audio formats into iTunes
15. Highlight all the items you want to convert, right-click, and choose “Convert Selection to WAV” from the popup menu.
16. Locate the items in your Music folder and put them in your project folder.

If you’d like to batch convert audio files on OSX, click here!

There have been many people trying to import various types of video files into Final Cut Pro- H.264, MPEG1, Sorenson, AVI etc. Sometimes the clips might sputter through… but often, they’ll redline and not play at all- or even crash the program, and possibly corrupt your project file.

Download the free trial of DV Kitchen! to batch convert video files to DV or any other editing format.

There have been a lot of questions from people who are unhappy with how their DVD video discs are working when played on computers and/or DVD players.

Here is a short list of differences:

• Buttons rollovers do not work the same depending on what WinXP DVD player application is being used, or in Apple DVD Player
• TVs show cropped action safe area, computers show the whole picture
• MPEG2 encoding that looks fine on a TV often looks bad on a computer… or vice versa sometimes!
• DVD players play at way lower rez than a computer display (720 X 480 vs. 2560 X 1600 or whatever)
• On a computer, users expect to be able to click and access web pages, or additional content on the DVD

The DVD is a format that is designed to play from DVD players on TVs. The fact that computers have DVD compatible drives was originally a side-effect of saving on manufacturing costs, no one thought many people would be playing DVDs on a computer.

But, you essentially have two choices:

1. If you want a lot of control over how your DVDs play on a computer, you will probably be unhappy with the standard DVD disc format (with VIDEO_TS folder, MPEG2 encoding, etc.). So you will have to author your discs, just like in the multimedia CD era, with an authoring software program.

   You can present your program in a browser, (the advantage of which is that it’s easy once you’ve created the menus, etc., to deply your project on the web), or you can use Acrobat, Director, LiveStage Pro, iShell, Keynote, PowerPoint, Flash, Movieworks or many others. (Even Word and Excel will play movies.) (If you’re not sure which to choose, click here and tell me about your project.)

   In this way, you have total control over the experience of your viewers watching on a computer. You can use FLV or H.264 encoding, crop the picture correctly, and have your buttons pull up web pages, computer content, whatever. Your movies will be small compared to the overall size of today’s monitors. But they’ll look good! The downside of option #1 is that you have to author your project twice, once in a DVD authoring app and once in a multimedia app.

2. The other option is just to make a regular DVD video disc and live with it. Most recent computers will be able to play it, even though the experience will not be like a DVD player, but option #2 is a lot easier!

Our vote is:

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

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.