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What just happened to video on the web?

 

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!



DV Kitchen screencast - encoding to FLV and Jeroen’s Player

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.



Can DV Kitchen take a 3 hour job down to 12 seconds?

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, …



How do I export a high quality movie?

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 …



11 Billion Videos Viewed Online in The U.S. in April 2008

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 …



DV Kitchen screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator

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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Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?

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 …



Adobe adds H.264 video support to Flash

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 …



Where can I find older versions of Quicktime?

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



How do I batch convert audio in Windows XP for my editing software?

  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



Blackmagic Design Intensity and Intensity Pro

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Intensity Pro (With Break out cables)

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Intensity (HDMI Only)

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



Batch convert video files to any editing format

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.



How can I make my DVDs work the way I want in both DVD players and computers?

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



What is the best app to convert videos to iPod compatible format?

Our vote is:

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

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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.



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