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

“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/

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.

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.

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.