Internet Video Articles and Columns - How to make Internet Videos: February 2007

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Cell phone video and camcorders? Third Screen or Fourth Screen? Who cares? Lets make Internet movies!!!

Is cell phone video the future of Video over the Net? Killer applications for cell phones

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Ulead VideoStudio Review - Ready to get started with video editing? Maybe you've some video that you'd like to make into a nice little movie production, complete with transitions between scenes, background music, title text, and some fun video effects. And you can share your movies as video files for computer playback, or post for friends to view over the Web, or download to a iPod to take with you, or even burn on DVD to watch in the living room.

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Looking to be famous or make some money making online video? Check out Online Video Contests. This is a great new site, a wonderful concept and amazingly useful. Instead of you trying to search through the net to find and stay ahead of all the hundreds and thousands of video contests you can enter, Justin Johnson and his Online Video Contests web site does it all for you!

Adobe's NEW web-based video remix and editing technology is an easy-to-use video editor that allows consumers the creative freedom to infuse personality and dramatic impact into their stories before releasing them to a broader online audience. Users can drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips. All online more============

Best Internet Videos of the Week

Best Video Web Sites of the Week

Music Videos - Best Music Videos and the Best Music Web Sites

Special Deals and Rebates on Consumer and Prosumer Camcorders

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Can you act? Can you shoot and edit video? Want to create your Internet comedy series? It is not that difficult. Shoot, cut and post a few short episodes to YouTube, Revver, or other site. Then promote the heck out of it. Check out the MySkidmarks series - nice acting, writing and camera work - You can do this.

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Sundance Film Festival Global Short Film Project - Five short ‘made for mobile’ films, that premiered at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona last week, are now available for mobile users to download around the world today. Click here for Information on the project and instructions for accessing the films.

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You want this camcorder. SONY's new HDV 1080i HIGH-DEF CAMCORDER is perfect for the prosumer videomaker on the go.

It is the world’s first 1080i HDV High-Def Camcorder With Three-Chip ClearVID CMOS Sensor Technology. The HDR-FX7 camcorder has a smooth slow record function. With its three sensors, the HDR-FX7 model can capture a six-second burst of video and play it back in 24 seconds as slow motion video. The model’s dual record function allows users to capture 1.2-megapixel still images and shoot video simultaneously, with the press of a button. more
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Robert Redford Big Stories for Small Screens - The GSM Association announces its partnership with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute to commission a series of short films from leading independent filmmakers that will be shown exclusively on mobile handsets. View now

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"Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies" is packed with tips and tricks for creating dazzling images. It will show you how to use layers to create exciting new images, as well as how to change backgrounds, fix flaws, and artistically enhance photos. more

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Cell phone video and camcorders? Third Screen or Fourth Screen? Who cares? Lets make movies!!!

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Best Video Web Sites of the Week

Music Videos - Best Music Videos and the Best Music Web Sites

Internet Video Press Releases and Product Announcements

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You want this camcorder. SONY's new HDV 1080i HIGH-DEF CAMCORDER is perfect for the prosumer videomaker on the go.

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Big Stories for Small Screens - The GSM Association announces its partnership with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute to commission a series of short films from leading independent filmmakers that will be shown exclusively on mobile handsets. View now

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How to Put your Videos Up On YouTube - YouTube is currently the world's most popular video upload site and gets about 65,000 or more videos a day submitted to them. YouTube says that their videos account for 60 percent of all videos watched online and that their visitors spend an average of 17 minutes per session on the site. According to Nielsen NetRatings, YouTube has nearly 20M unique users per month.

Here is how you can join the party and have your videos online at YouTube. Its really easy.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

You want this camcorder. SONY's new HDV 1080i HIGH-DEF CAMCORDER is perfect for the prosumer videomaker on the go.

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"Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies" is packed with tips and tricks for creating dazzling images. It will show you how to use layers to create exciting nee images, as well as how to change backgrounds, fix flaws, and artistically enhance photos. more

Video News Online
Maximizing the Audience
Online video has undergone a quiet revolution in the last two years. With the emergence of YouTube (as well as its competitors and imitators) and improvements in the way that video can be embedded in a Web page, online users are seeing video in new places and new applications.
Barry Parr - News & Information

Here is how you can join the party and have your videos online at YouTube. Its really easy.

Microsoft Vista is the next operating system for you - (unless you are Mac or Linux OS type of person). This is a big change and you'll need some kind of guidance to figure it all out and how to make it work for you. Do you have the horsepower to run Vista? Can you upgrade? Or should you just chuck your old machine and just buy a new box with Microsoft Vista pre-installed? Should you not even bother upgrading and just continue to use XP or Win 98 - or switch to a Mac?

If you are a professional animator in the entertainment business, you are probably familiar with the Cinema 4D Program. If not, visit the website at www.maxon.net. The new Cinema 4D 10 Workshop book teaches you how to model, animate and render with a practical command of all the essential functions and tools. It includes detailed tutorials, suitable for novices and experienced users alike, that demonstrate how to navigate the redesigned UI and orient you to the workflow. more

If you want to make money making Internet video, you got to read this:

Getting Paid: Sites that Help Video Producers Make Money - Compiled by Scott Kirsner (Editor, CinemaTech) - New revenue opportunities are emerging with the recent boom in video viewing on the Web. On this chart, I've tried to list all of the Web sites that enable independent video producers to make money from their work. I've ranked the sites subjectively, based on how much traffic and buzz they've been attracting, and also how likely it seems that a video producer would actually manage to earn a significant return by posting a video to them. (Media companies with large libraries have a wider range of options for monetizing their content, including Apple's iTunes Music Store, Movielink, and Vongo.)

How you can use web video to increase sales, drive traffic and build a passionate online community... a real world case study

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Internet Video articles, news and press releases

Here is how you can join the party and have your videos online at YouTube. Its really easy.

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If you want to make money making Internet video, you got to read this:

How you can use web video to increase sales, drive traffic and build a passionate online community... a real world case study

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Velocity Micro announced the availability of their groundbreaking Vista media center PCs, the CineMagix Grand Theater and the CineMagix Pro Cinema. The CineMagix Grand Theater, which was unveiled at Digital Experience earlier this month, is Intel-based with up to 2.25 terabytes of storage, while the CineMagix Pro Cinema features AMD products. Both PCs feature premium a/v components and the same sleek design. more

Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., has expanded its Pinnacle PCTV™ product family to include the Pinnacle PCTV Tuner Kits for Windows Vista. The new line includes three products: two portable USB2 digital and analog TV tuner kits (HD ATSC/NTSC or DVB-T/PAL/SECAM) and one analog PAL/SECAM PCI Kit. All three products include an original full-size remote control that enables consumers to access the entire range of popular TV, PVR and multimedia features of Windows Media Center. more

e frontier announced the release of MotionArtist 4 for Windows. MotionArtist 4 enables anyone to create banner ads, digital photo albums, website designs, presentations, greeting cards and web comics. Key features in this new version include: new wizards and templates, an improved timeline and text editing palette, a new browser preview, and additional clip art to choose from. more

Coming in April 2007, Canon will roll out a new HD camcorder targeted to consumers. With a price tag of about $1099, the new HV20 HD Camcorder integrates Canon’s renowned optics and imaging technology, including a 10x HD video zoom lens with Super Range Optical Image Stabilization and a Canon True HD 1920 x 1080 CMOS Image Sensor, the HV20 HD Camcorder records true 1080 high definition video, making it an ideal companion to today’s HD televisions. more

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced that Adobe Photoshop(r) Lightroom(tm) 1.0 software is now available for pre-order and is expected to ship in mid-February 2007. Photoshop Lightroom enables professional photographers to import, manage and present large volumes of digital photographs, helping photographers spend more time behind the lens and less time at the computer. more

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