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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Internet Video News and Announcements - Book Review

Are you afraid of Adobe PhotoShop CS3? Too complicated, too many options? Do you have a new digital camera and want to know more about how to make great looking digital images? Do you need to master the process of transforming average "digital snapshots" into works of art? Check out this review of two very cool books geared to the digital photographer beginener.

Digital Photo Projects For Dummies

Teach Yourself Visually - Adobe Photoshop CS3

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This is pretty cool. Now you can watch HD TV on your desktop computer or laptop - The Pinnacle PCTV HD Stick enables consumers to view live television on their PC complete with pause, rewind and fast-forward time-shifting functionality. You can even record your favorite programs for viewing later. more

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Show In A Box- a complete tool for video bloggers - check it out at http://showinabox.tv

Based on the WordPress blogging tool, ShowInABox is a package of tools that make WordPress better suited for video.

Show In A Box consists of :

WordPress - blogging software.
K2
- an advanced theme for WordPress.
Vlogsplosion - a video-centric style for the K2 Wordpress theme.
vPIP - videos Playing In Place - a plugin that dynamically embeds videos in the page and creates an RSS feed for each video format.
PledgeDrive - (coming soon) a plugin that allows you to collect recurring monthly donations via PayPal.
VideoPress Related Videos - (coming soon) a plugin that allows the user to define related items for each post.

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FREE Adobe CS3 Instructional Videos, Books and Tutorials - Learn About PhotoShop, Adobe CS3, Premiere Pro, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3, Film Editing, Adobe Media Player, etc

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Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC is turning to teens for solutions to help make our roads safer for everyone by launching the Safety Scholars Video Contest. The contest will award three $5,000 college scholarships for the most compelling and effective teen-created videos that drive home lifesaving messages on auto and tire safety. more


ADS DVD Xpress DX2 - Are you looking for a fast and easy way to transfer your movies and special events from old VHS, S-video or even beta video tape to a CD or a DVD disk? Or maybe you want to convert your old videos to a format you can watch on a mobile device like a Sony PSP, Apple iPOD or Zen Vision?


Artist in Residence, Bill Pankow
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Manhattan Edit Workshop are proud to present the Artist in Residence series. This video explores the highlights from an intimate session with Bill Pankow (Editor, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, The Black Dahlia). Watch while Pankow discusses the timelessness of the process, the prominence of performance, and entertaining anecdotes from his experience on major Hollywood films.

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How Green Are You? Enter To Be The Greenest Family In America!
Win a $1,000 American Express Gift Card, a $1,000 gift certificate to Whole Foods, an autographed copy of An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore and a DVD. For complete details please read the Official Rules. Video Contest ends September 1, 2007.


Digital Video Professionals Association Launches FREE Online Adobe Production Premium Resource Center

The new DVPA Adobe Production Premium Resource Center is provided free-of- charge at the association website located at www.dvpa.com/adobecs3.html. more


Heavy.com, one of the web’s leading online brands and the leader for 18-34 year old guys, announced today that Punchline has been crowned the winner of the ContraBand battle-of-the-bands video contest, taking home the grand prize of $25,000. Over the four-month long contest, Punchline created 65 videos that were streamed more than 1,189,157 times. Here are the top 12 picks for Canadians to choose from were announced this week . more


If you are looking for a camcorder that works well, is very compact and ideally suited for both family and web video applications, you need to take a look at the new Everio GZ-MG555 hard drive camcorder from JVC. Record SEVEN hours or more! Read the Review


Adobe Launches Premiere Express - Free, web based video remixing and editing - create your own mash-ups at MTV, YouTube and PhotoBucket - This looks like a lot of fun. Many have predicted that online video editing will supplant computer based video editing sometime in the future. Companies like EyeSpot, Jumpcut, Cuts, Motionbox and others have already provided online video editing and now Adobe has joined the party. more


The Insiders Guide to Independent Film Distribution by Stacey Parks - If you want to make it in the indie film world, this is a great book to help you get started. It's not about how to make movies - it is about how to make money making movies. This is a great book for those new to the business as well as interesting refresher for those who already have a taste of the industry. more

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News and Press Releases

Adobe Photoshop is central to most digital photography workflows, and the introduction of CS3 is a major milestone in the maturation of this imaging suite. Photoshop CS3 Photographer’s Handbook: An Easy Workflow focuses on the critical elements of the workflow rather than covering every arcane feature. This Handbook is designed to get you working quickly in Photoshop. It provides the essential information for image editing along with step-by-step projects for more advanced Photoshop techniques. more

Athens, Greece (July 2, 2007) - Soundsnap is a new online platform for finding and sharing free samples, sound effects and music loops. Designed as a resource and community for musicians, sound designers, producers, film makers and web/video game developers, Soundsnap provides user driven content for use in virtually any kind of media production. Users can freely download and upload content to be legally shared and used in any media project.

Soundsnap launches with 30,000 available free sounds ranging 'from high quality music loops and music samples, sound effects such as animals, industrial, nature, sports, and human, to sound design, sound art, comic, unreal, and science fiction. more


Dulles, VA – July 2, 2007 – AOL today launched an update to its AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) with enhancements designed to make it even easier for consumers to find, watch and share more than 20 million videos from across the Web without having to visit multiple websites. more


Heavy.com, one of the web’s leading online brands and the leader for 18-34 year old guys, announced today that Punchline has been crowned the winner of the ContraBand battle-of-the-bands video contest, taking home the grand prize of $25,000. Over the four-month long contest, Punchline created 65 videos that were streamed more than 1,189,157 times. The top 12 picks for Canadians to choose from were announced this week and can be viewed on www.heavy.com/contraband2. more


Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Creative Suite® 3 Production Premium and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection software. Adobe Production Premium CS3 is the industry’s most comprehensive collection of integrated cross-platform post-production software tools, helping video professionals deliver stunning results for film, broadcast, DVD, Web, and mobile devices. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection combines 12 of Adobe’s new design and development products in a single box – the most comprehensive creative environment ever delivered. more


Cypress Partners with InPhase Technologies on Holographic Data Storage Drive -

Custom CMOS Image Sensor From Cypress Reads Data at 500 Frames Per Second

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Mechelen, Belgium, June 28, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) announced today that it has partnered with InPhase Technologies, the world’s leader in holographic data storage, to supply a CMOS image sensor solution for InPhase’s Tapestry™ holographic data storage system. more


Clippz.com Offers MySpace, Metacafe Video for iPhone

PRINCETON, N.J., June 27, 2007 -Clippz.com (www.clippz.com), the world's first and only way to "sideload" optimized video clips from the Internet to a mobile device, now offers its entire MySpace, Metacafe and YouTube collections encoded in Apple iPhone's H.264 file format - more than 500 free clips ready for sideloading into Apple's new cell phone. more


Green Communications - The Case Studies
To register, please visit
www.bdionline.com/greencommunications . For inquiries, please call 800.830.6687.

The green movement is more than just the latest trend. Companies and organizations are asking themselves how they participate in the movement. Business Development Institute and PR Newswire have partnered to produce a half day conference that specifically addresses the questions, issues, and opportunities facing the corporate communicator and marketer. more

Details:
Date:
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Time: 1:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Place: Microsoft Executive Customer Briefing Center: 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
Registration Fee: $195.
Website: www.bdionline.com/greencommunications


ON2 TECHNOLOGIES AND VIEWCAST ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP TO BRING LIVE ADOBE® FLASH® VIDEO SOLUTIONS TO MARKET -

ViewCast licenses On2 Flix® live Flash video software for its media appliances

TARRYTOWN, NY and PLANO, TX, June 27, 2007 – On2 Technologies, Inc. (AMEX:ONT), a leader in video-compression software and solutions, and ViewCast® Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a global leader in the design and manufacture of the world's most advanced media encoding products, announced today that ViewCast has licensed On2’s live Flash video encoding technologies for integration with ViewCast’s streaming media appliances. more


Movavi launches free online video conversion service.
Web-based service lets users convert videos to run on cellphones, iPods, websites, vlogs; bloggers, designers can plug converter into any Web site, social networking pages

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA, JUNE 27, 2007 - Movavi today launched Movavi Online, a web-based service that enables users to convert video from one format to another - for sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods, and more - for free.
Movavi Online supports the advanced H.264 format used by Apple's new iPhone. The new service, available at http://online.movavi.com, generates video files specifically tuned for viewing in email, on mobile devices, for video blogging (vlogging) and video podcasting, and more. more



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