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H.264 is taking over the web

Jul 7, 2011 at 2:27 pm in delivery, digital video news, web video by Josh Mellicker · Leave a Comment »

MeFeedia reports that H.264 is currently the dominate native video format and continues to be broadly adopted.

H.264 continues to grow with the rise of modern browsers & the massive growth in mobile (mostly iOS & Android).

WebM currently accounts for < 2% of total videos in their index, however, this could change with YouTube recently announcing it was transcoding all of its index into WebM.

via HTML5 Video Available on the Web – June 2011 Update.

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DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

Apr 3, 2010 at 5:55 pm in digital video news, web products, web video by · 2 Comments »

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  [read more →]

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The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

Feb 21, 2010 at 5:19 am in web products, web video by Josh Mellicker · 25 Comments »

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  [read more →]

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Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

Jan 12, 2010 at 12:06 am in digital video news by · 2 Comments »

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.

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

Aug 4, 2009 at 6:34 pm in digital video news by duncan · 2 Comments »

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  [read more →]

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Americans Viewed a Record 16.8 Billion Videos Online in April Driven Largely by Surge in Viewership at YouTube

Jun 4, 2009 at 7:28 pm in digital video news, web video by · Leave a Comment »

Average U.S. Viewer Watched 6.4 Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix

RESTON, VA, June 4, 2009 – comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2009 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, showing that U.S. Internet users viewed 16.8 billion online videos during the month, representing an increase of 16 percent versus March. A significant increase in video viewing at YouTube during April contributed to the month’s sizeable gains.

Google  [read more →]

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U.S. video viewing habits report

Jun 1, 2009 at 5:40 am in digital video news, web video by · 3 Comments »

Neilsen recently released a report on U.S. household video viewing habits. The survey reported viewers spent slightly more (2%) time watching TV in the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter of 2008, while time spent watching video on the internet increased 53%.

Still, viewers spend an average of only 3 hours watching video on the internet, up from about 2 hours last year, vs. 153 hours watching TV, vs. 151 last year.

The number of people who watch video  [read more →]

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

Mar 15, 2009 at 9:06 pm in web video by · 1 Comment »

“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 →]

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

Nov 20, 2008 at 3:00 pm in digital video news, web video by · 5 Comments »

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 →]

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Ken Stone writes glowing review of DV Kitchen

Nov 10, 2008 at 9:58 pm in web products, web video by · Leave a Comment »

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,  [read more →]

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DV Kitchen adds Shadowbox support

Nov 4, 2008 at 7:28 pm in digital video news, web video by · 2 Comments »

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:

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What just happened to video on the web?

Aug 13, 2008 at 8:00 pm in digital video news, dvcTV, editing, web video by . · 5 Comments »

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  [read more →]

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DV Kitchen screencast – encoding to FLV and Jeroen's Player

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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.

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DV Kitchen screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator

May 22, 2008 at 4:30 am in broadcast, web video by · 1 Comment »

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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Adobe adds H.264 video support to Flash

Aug 23, 2007 at 3:59 pm in digital video news, DVD, web video by · 3 Comments »

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  [read more →]