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 formats and destinations in a single job (called “Back-End Batch Capability” in my DV Kitchen review of March 2009). FCP7 …
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
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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 Sites Accounts for 41 Percent of U.S. Online Video Market
In April, Google Sites once again ranked as …
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 on the internet increased 13%, from 115 million to 131 million.
What can we conclude from this survey?
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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.
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 quite right until DV Kitchen.”
“Our overall impression of DV Kitchen is …
“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 …
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 people to upgrade their (Cisco) routing systems.
As I predicted, internet traffic is skyrocketing, propelled by video. 
“The majority of the …
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 was annoyed at a couple of things: not being able to name or edit QuickSpecs settings, and the fact the …
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 …
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!
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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.
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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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 …
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