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H.264 is taking over the web

Josh Mellicker — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:27:04 +0000

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.

DV Kitchen gets stellar review in MacUser UK

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:55:03 +0000

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 [read more →]

The Best Thing In The World Just Happened

Josh Mellicker — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:19:07 +0000

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 [read more →]

Adding a remote folder to DV Kitchen

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:06:25 +0000

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.

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

duncan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:34:14 +0000

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 [read more →]

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

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:28:47 +0000

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 →]

U.S. video viewing habits report

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:40:07 +0000

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 →]

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

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:06:11 +0000

“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 →]

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

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:00:38 +0000

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 →]

Ken Stone writes glowing review of DV Kitchen

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:58:58 +0000

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 [read more →]