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So who is posting the most videos to YouTube? The video guy down the street? Little Johnny up in his room? Video porn kings? Nope - its CBS - CBS Clips Top YouTube Charts, Boost Ratings

Also - You Tube vs. Boob Tube at Wired Magazine

YouTube Waves Goodbye To 'Daily Show' Clips

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Mobile TV and video over the Net. There is a battle raging over what technology will win out for the future of Mobile TV. Check out this article from Parks Associates and Basestation e-Newsletter regarding who is doing what in Europe. If you are making video for the web you need to read this article and guide to the various warring standards and technologies. Its gonna be bloody. Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard?

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Adopt a Booty Today - VIDEO CONTEST - Please help us with this very serious campaign to get booties treated nicely. They're the most maligned creatures on Earth. You've been asked to adopt babies, soldiers, communities, highways, rivers, streams, cats, dogs (including pit bulls) and virtual pets. Some of you kind souls responded generously by adopting these people, creatures, things or natural wonders. Booties are natural wonders too more

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Mobile TV and video over the Net. There is a battle raging over what technology will win out for the future of Mobile TV. Check out this article from Parks Associates and Basestation e-Newsletter regarding who is doing what in Europe. If you are making video for the web you need to read this article and guide to the various warring standards and technologies. Its gonna be bloody. Mobile TV in Europe: Who Needs a Standard?

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Orgasms for Peace? Calif. couple calls for orgasm for peace AP - Two peace activists have planned a massive anti-war demonstration for the first day of winter. Watch the video and learn how you can help bring peace, or a piece, to the world.

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Filmaka.com is a new contest site where filmmakers get to submit their short films for viewing, voting, and selection. The winner of the contest receives a feature film deal with the some of the world's best known independent producers at Filmaka.com. more

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High Definition Video is Here - All about High Def from Authoring to Playback -for video pros and video enthusiasts. What do you need to create and playback great looking HD video on your computer and on your TV?

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Do you want to watch your home cable TV from a net connection anywhere in the world? Following the lead of Slingbox, Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), announced that its consumer division, Pinnacle Systems, Inc., is expanding its popular Pinnacle PCTV™ product family with the addition of Pinnacle PCTV To Go. This new product gives customers the ability to enjoy their home entertainment systems from any location in the home or around the world. Easy wireless setup, integrated Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) support and comprehensive digital video recorder (DVR) capabilities make Pinnacle PCTV To Go a must-have for anyone interested in watching high quality TV shows, sporting events, movies or news on a PC, anytime, anywhere. more

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Do you need a music soundtrack to add emotional depth to your video productions? Even if you're a musician who can compose, play, and record your own scores, that's still a lot of work. The answer for many producers is an automated soundtrack tool. Check out the latest from SonicPro and from Sony. All about SmartSound Sonicfire Pro 4 and Sony Media Software Cinescore Both of these soundtrack creation tools now allow you to drill deeper into customizing the score by actually adjusting the mix and mood of the soundtrack elements, providing a whole new level of control over the emotional feel of the piece in sync with the visuals. more

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YouTube to show game clips of NHL games Video-sharing site YouTube will show clips of NHL games, its first agreement with a professional sports league. The agreement reached Wednesday will allow users to see video highlights of this season's NHL regular-season games, within 24 hours of the original broadcast. The service will become available this month.

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Guys - do you get Menstrual Cramps - http://menwithcramps.com/ - This might be the best spoof site ever. This is incredible. Fake commercials documentaries, testimonials, call for action. Amazing. Send this to your male friends who need something extra to whine about - share this with female associates who are complain about their periods. Its extremely well conceived and implemented.

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Here is the first of the series of videos . Men With Cramps. The Bowels Of History - Part I (2006) - The true meaning of mankind's oldest cave paintings tell about the trials and tribulations of early Man.
1 min 43 sec . You can watch all seven episodes at iFilm

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Looking for a great way to edit and clean up your digital images without having to pay big bucks for a software product? Check out GIMP. It runs on Windows, Macs, Linux - if you are an open source fan, you got to check this out.

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. more

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This looks like fun. Doritos is partnering with Yahoo to give you the change to win prices and big bucks by creating your own commercial that will be played during the Super Bowl. That might be a nice way to promote your career, eh? Here's the deal. Think of an idea for a DORITOS commercial. Maybe it's a story about the first time you tried DORITOS or what life is like for the spices on the surface of the chip. Anything. Make the video you'd be excited to see if you were watching TV. Make it yours. Shoot it. Submit it. If the judges place it in the top five best videos, you'll win $10,000 dollars and a trip to Miami for a private Super Bowl XLI viewing party. Then, if America votes it their favorite, your video will be aired as a real DORITOS commercial on Super Bowl XLI.
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If you are film maker or videomaker looking for a great source of info about film festivals all over the world - you got to check out Withoutabox. It was founded in January, 2000 to serve as a network for independent filmmakers and their films - to directly access film festivals, film buyers, and film audiences throughout the world and to manage those relationships and transactions from a central console.

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Yahoo to launch Web site devoted to food - With online competition for eyeballs intensifying, Web portal Yahoo Inc. is launching a new site devoted to food that will feature videos and other content from celebrity chefs such as Rachael Ray and Martha Stewart.

Most of the content will come from partners, including Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Wolfgang Puck, Everyday with Rachael Ray, Food & Wine, Epicurious, Cook's Illustrated and Reader's Digest.There will also be original content, including an online video show called "Cheap and Easy" and contributions on regional cuisine from 13 columnists from around the country. A database of thousands of recipes will be available through a partnership with allrecipes.com. The idea for the site came from the 1.5 million food-related searches on the site each day, most of which come around 4 p.m., Brown said.

Yahoo Food aims to hold people's attention after they have found a recipe by offering cooking demonstration videos and lavish photography and layout that Brown refers to as "food pornography."

http://food.yahoo.com

Sharing videos on the Web is hot! It's been just a year since video sharing really exploded, and already many take it for granted. But perhaps you're getting confused by the increasing number of video sharing sites and can't figure out what's best. Well, don't worry. The folks at Movavi.com have done the hard work for you - and you'll be surprised to learn that the most popular sites aren't necessarily the best choices for sharing. more

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This Halloween, take a visit to Drake Mountain - http://www.drakemountain.com. It is a video blog that documents a fictional expedition to a haunted mountain in Vermont. All 10 episodes along with a blooper reel are now online, just in time for Halloween. We really like how they integrated the YouTube feed into their own site so that they didn't have to worry about hosting the video or bandwidth costs. Smart.

Drake Mountain had an incredibly intense production schedule. Auditions were held on September 26 and the production was casted on October 1. The first day of shooting was October 7. By October 21, the movie was shot and by October 27, the final episode was edited and uploaded to the web.

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Companies have broad aims for TV on the Web - Eyebrows went up when Google Inc. recently agreed to spend $1.65 billion for YouTube, the most popular Web site for free video clips. But that figure could be blown away one day if some emerging companies achieve their much broader visions for the future of online TV. These companies are building flexible online networks that can host content, serve up ads and dish out interactive features. While "viral" video-sharing sites like YouTube focus on individual clips — many pirated — these new Internet TV platforms are designed to host full-fledged channels that content creators can control.

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Students produce movies with cell phones The cameras capture the young man walking down the stairs, reciting a monologue about the three things people should know about him: His favorite movie is "Gone with the Wind," he loves roller coasters and he hates when people don't take him seriously. The shot is complicated and takes several attempts to perfect. But there's no big camera equipment, no expert sound system and no reels of film to capture the moment. Instead, everyone involved, from the three cameramen and the sound guy to the extras, is producing the miniature movie with — and for — cell phones.

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Virus writers target web videos at BBC - The growing popularity of online video has caught the attention of malicious hackers and hi-tech criminals. Security firms are reporting more and more instances of booby-trapped Windows codecs - file compressors - required to play some video formats. Some of the codecs let users play types of net-based video, but also have spyware and adware wrapped inside. Others, say experts, are outright fakes that just want to infect victims with data-stealing programs.

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Check out this new offer from AOL and Brightcove. AOL and Brightcove launched a new distribution service that can enable video publishers to sell high-quality video downloads through the AOL Video portal (http://video.aol.com) and receive up to 70% of the revenue generated from their sales. The new service promises to expand the distribution options for video publishers and the choices for consumers. more

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Comcast has just launching FearNet, an on-demand horror channel. FearNet, a co-venture with Sony and Lionsgate, will debut as a video-on-demand channel free to Comcast digital customers, a website (FearNet.com) and a mobile offering (FearNet Mobile), the first of several multi-platform networks Comcast plans to launch. Visitors to FearNet.com can purchase horror-themed movies for rent or to own, all for immediate viewing on a PC. more

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Check out, "I Wanna Be Famous", a great short animated music video by Jessica Delfino. Directed by Nick Fox-Gieg, www.itslikespiders.com). Also read her article about her struggle to get her video made and posted at YouTube. Very interesting.

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Believe it or not, NBC.com is hot. In addition to online versions of many of the network's top shows, you can also access a few Internet only productions. Check out "Its Your Show" where amateur film and video makers get to produce and upload their own comedy skits and try to win big bucks - $1000 every week with a $100,000 grand prize. This is the future of the net. Quality video with a big bucks content provider behind it.

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With the new 24-inch iMac, Apple combines the home theater experience with professional-level digital production capabilities; it comes loaded with powerful video, audio and imaging software and its wide screen 24" LCD monitor makes it perfect for use as the central hub of a digital lifestyle. more

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Are you a pro or serious consumer who wants to do some heavy duty soundtrack development, audio editing and clean-up but the learning track for a pro product like Adobe Audition is just a bit too steep? Then check out Adobe System's Adobe® Soundbooth™ software, a new innovative and intuitive audio software product for creating and editing audio and fixing common audio flaws using visually-oriented tools. Unveiled to customers for the first time this week at the MAX 2006 Adobe user conference in Las Vegas, creative professionals now have the opportunity to test this new beta download and submit feedback to the Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/soundbooth. Adobe Soundbooth is available for both Intel-based Macintosh and Windows systems. more

The future of GooTube or will Google and YouTube get Tubed? Are the tubular bells chiming - by Mark Shapiro



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Check out, "I Wanna Be Famous", a great short animated music video by
Jessica Delfino. Directed by Nick Fox-Gieg, www.itslikespiders.com).

Also read her article about her struggle to get her video made
and posted at YouTube. Very interesting.

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Adobe Buys Serious Magic - Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) acquired Serious Magic Inc.™, maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It™ delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe's leadership position in video software -- for both video professionals and consumers. more

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The Top 12 Ways You Can Profit from Web Video - The long awaited promise of high-quality, fast-loading web video has finally arrived. You might not get rich overnight with these ideas, but it is possible to create multiple, passive income streams using these web video business models. Here are the top 12 ways you can start profiting from web video today...

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How many portable devices do you carry? The market continues to evolve rapidly, so let's look at new developments in three related areas -- portable media players for both playing and recording, to enjoy music, photos, and videos on the go; portable storage devices so you can take your files, and even your desktop computing environment, along as well; and portable power adaptors to help manage all the batteries and power adaptors that all these devices require. more

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Yahoo wants to help you become a rock and roll music video star. Check out their new Get Your Freak On web site which enables fans and wannabes to to create and upload their own video clips inspired by a particular hit song. If you create the best music video you become relatively famous.... Right now you get to imitate, parody and/or honor Werid Al...


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MTV will distribute videos on Baidu - Now people in China can now wonder where did all the music videos in MTV go? MTV and search engine Baidu.com on Tuesday unveiled a venture to distribute music videos via the Internet in China, boosting the music video channel's exposure in a market where regulation has limited its presence. The companies said they will begin by offering 15,000 videos and MTV programs such as "Pimp My Ride," charging for some, while others will be free. They also will distribute programs from MTV's sister network Nickelodeon

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YouTube is the most popular site to visit for viewing online videos, sharing your favorite videos with people and commenting on videos you like. Here is a GREAT collection of several YouTube third party tools which enhance your YouTube experience.

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Make your own Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders commercial! Have you ever wanted to become a professional commercial producer? Or maybe you have a thing for the legendary Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders? Here is your chance to combine both of those urges. Check out the Make Your Own Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Commercial web site and contest. The contest ends Oct 31. You can win a trip to see the Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders at the Dallas Cowboy's 2006-2007 season ending game in Dallas Texas and an exhibition of the Grand Prize Entry on CMT. This prize package includes: Round trip airfare for two (coach seating for travel within the US); Hotel accommodations for 2 nights (based on double occupancy; Two tickets to a Dallas Cowboy's home game; $500 spending money and Meet and Greet with the Dallas Cowboy's Cheerleaders. Aside from the contest, this is a really fun example of how to use flash video. You mix and match stock footage, pre-recorded voice-over and stock football music to create your spot - all online.


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TurboNick offers video mash-ups - Kids can now create their own videos online. This is a lot of fun for young aspiring film and video makers. Nickelodeon has added a variety of "mash-up" features to its TurboNick broadband hub, allowing users to mix Nickelodeon video clips, animation and photos to create their own unique characters and stories.


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Halloween Vlogfest 2006 is coming! Check out last year's vlogfest: http://halloweenvlogfest.com

It has tons of awesome videos, remixes, and mashups. This year they are going to do it again and it's going to be even bigger! Submitted videos will be screened at a Halloween Vlogfest party in Los Angeles, California on October 28th.

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Vidiac Live is the first true live streaming service offered for free. Based on Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Technology, Vidiac is able to provide vastly improved picture resolution, quality and frame rate over typical webcam software. more

The new Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 software makes it easy to create, edit and share videos and movies. The new version enables you to burn your footage to a DVD in just two simple steps, complete with a DVD menu and scene index. You can easily assemble your movie by rearranging clips with drag-and-drop simplicity. You can also easily share your movies on DVD, the web, mobile phones, and virtually anywhere else. more

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The Top 12 Ways You Can Profit from Web Video - The long awaited promise of high-quality, fast-loading web video has finally arrived. You might not get rich overnight with these ideas, but it is possible to create multiple, passive income streams using these web video business models. Here are the top 12 ways you can start profiting from web video today...

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Halloween Vlogfest 2006 is coming! Check out last year's vlogfest: http://halloweenvlogfest.com

It has tons of awesome videos, remixes, and mashups. This year they are going to do it again and it's going to be even bigger! Submitted videos will be screened at a Halloween Vlogfest party in Los Angeles, California on October 28th.

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Vidiac Live is the first true live streaming service offered for free. Based on Microsoft's Windows Media 9 Technology, Vidiac is able to provide vastly improved picture resolution, quality and frame rate over typical webcam software. more

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PodCamp is coming to Pittsburgh - This will be the second in what's become a growing number of PodCamp "un-conferences" around the country. This is a free grassroots event dedicated to sharing information and ideas regarding blogs, vlogs, audio and video podcasting and portable media in general. more

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Cell phones that incorporate a digital camera are a development we take for granted. There's a standard (MMS) that allows photos to be exchanged between mobile users and they can be downloaded to PCs for storage and printing. The industry sees video as the next step and the early signs are positive. Full Story - http://www.vonmag.com - The Voice of IP CommunicationsTM

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The New Camcorders Are Here! (almost) - Sony, Canon and Panasonic are about to release their fall camcorders. Internal hard drives, high capacity cards and HD for consumers are the order of the day.

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If you are a video producer or film maker, you might want to check out The WebVideoZone (www.WebVideoZone.com). This is a members only resource that offers tools, tips and tutorials to help businesses get better results with internet video. One of the most popular features is their Web Video Player, an FLV video player that makes it easy for anyone to add interactive web video to any site.

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Want to play the Mark Foley game? - check it out at Atom Entertainment's AddictingGames' NewsGames channel ­ created to mock the most popular headlines and cultural topics of the day. You can pretend to be a congressional page and see what Maf54 has to say to you...http://www.addictinggames.com/imfoley.html

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Webcams are great for capturing short video clips and live video messaging across the Internet. Plus, webcams can be used for remote monitoring, some even with motion detection. But you don't necessarily want to tie up a computer to act as a video server for a connected webcam, so a better option for this kind of use is to use a dedicated Internet camera with a built-in network interface, like the Creative Live! Wireless. more

The online video editing market is really jumping. There's suddenly a lot of interest in this space. The big news however is that Yahoo! acquired Jumpcut, the creator of a Web property and application that offers a publishing tool and an interactive user community. According to Yahoo, "The acquisition of Jumpcut complements Yahoo's multimedia strategy and includes assets such as a strong team, unique technologies, emerging brand, business partnerships and a growing community of users." To learn more, details are available in a post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000358.html and http://blog.jumpcut.com/.

Also see Eyespot, Simple Star PhotoShow, vMix, One True Media and MuveeMix. All are offering very cool and fun online video mixing applications.

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This is a really cool - and very different type of online video contest - Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. announces a contest to find the most beautiful walker in the USA.

In an effort to support and promote the aesthetics of curvaceous beautifully walking women, the company will award three prizes to the best entries. (Note that we’re NOT saying beautiful walking women, but beautifully walking women—the face is irrelevant, only the walk is important.) The company will showcase all acceptable entries on the company’s contest website, http://www.poetryinmotion.info along with links to the contestant’s web address or email. When winners are picked in January 2007, they’ll be announced on the site. more

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This might be the killer video app. Sort of like a google search for video and audio. By extracting and analyzing the audio for audio and video podcasts, converting it to metadata that can be searched, the HearHere software application from Pluggd allows users to jump right to their area of interest in podcasts. Relying on speech recognition and semantic analysis within its media player, HearHere lets users skip commercials in the beginning of a podcast or bypass the baseball highlights to jump right to the football segment in a sports report. more

Pluggd HearHere DemoFall video

More Tech News from DemoFall 2006

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Are you having a hard time keeping track of your projects? Who is doing what - what script and edit version is everyone on? What are the latest edit decisions?

Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, today announced the launch of its free-to-use Content Management solution at DEMOfall 2006. “Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a massive growth in Web 2.0 applications for consumers to help them manage their videos, photos, and blogs” said Mark Suster, CEO of Koral, “Koral is the first of a new breed of Web 2.0 solutions for businesses. Koral helps people store, share and search the business information that lives in documents, emails, web pages, and folders – while keeping everyone in sync.” more

Watch the Koral DemoFall 2006 Video

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Webcams are great for capturing short video clips and live video messaging across the Internet. Plus, webcams can be used for remote monitoring, some even with motion detection. But you don't necessarily want to tie up a computer to act as a video server for a connected webcam, so a better option for this kind of use is to use a dedicated Internet camera with a built-in network interface, like the Creative Live! Wireless. more
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REVIEW - Sony Vegas 7+DVD is a professional editing platform capable of taking an editor from capture to export. The Vegas7+DVD includes Vegas 7, DVD Architect 4, and Dolby Digital AC-3 encoding software. Vegas allows for real-time acquisition and editing of DV, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM formats. Vegas 7 has the capability to fine-tune audio with the precision of a digital audio workstation. DVD Architect 4 provides the capability to author surround sound and dual-layer DVDs. more

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Matrox Parhelia APVe Video Card Review -

Expand Your Video Display by adding additional video displays and monitors. Great for game players and video editors. more

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Want to make your video look very, very good? Check out this great new LCD monitor from LG. Great for gamers - great for video - excellent for almost anything you can throw at it. Its 2ms refresh rate is incredible and made my videos look wonderful without any lag or trails. more

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Panasonic VDR-D300 DVD Palmcorder ▪ Stunning detail and clarity — 3.1 Megapixel CCD ▪ DVD-R/W or DVD-RAM, 16:9 Recording ▪ Built-in stereo microphone — filter reduces wind noise

B&H Price: $669.95

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ATOM FILMS announced the winners of their Cell phone video contest

Carrie Wolberg won the $5,000 grand prize in Alltel’s Are You Circle Worthy? contest for her 30 second film, "Hot, Hot, Hot".

This video contest required the participants to shoot a short with just a cell phone.

Check out all the finalists.

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Microsoft launching online video service Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining startups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.

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U.S. uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube

The White House is distributing government-produced, anti-drug videos on YouTube, the trendy Internet service that features clips of wacky, drug-induced behavior and step-by-step instructions for growing marijuana plants.

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Warner announces deal with YouTube - A revenue-sharing deal between video startup YouTube Inc. and Warner Music Group Corp. is likely to be the first of a spate of content distribution partnerships between Web sites and music companies, industry officials say.

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You can now submit your web video productions to the Webby Awards! The Webby Awards launched its 11th Annual Call for Entries with the debut of major new awards in online film and video and interactive advertising.

Hailed as the "Oscars of the Internet" by the New York Times and "one of the most prestigious awards in the world" by the BBC, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. more

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Do you want to know the down and dirty details of what it takes to get an indie film made? TALES FROM THE FRONTLINE OF INDIE FILMMAKING & OTHER ASSORTED TIPS FOR THE ASPIRING MOVIEMAKER, that has a bunch of articles and also stories of Peter John Ross's adventures as a filmmaker. From how he met his girlfriend through to how Horrors of War got started. It’s his E! TRUE NOT-HOLLYWOOD STORY “tell–all” book.

self published, 212 page book for only $10 - http://www.lulu.com/content/426325

HORRORS OF WAR, a feature film - www.horrorsofwarmovie.com

SONNYBOO PRODUCTIONS -- www.sonnyboo.com

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muveeMix.com is a brand new site that allows anyone to automatically create polished video montages – called muvees – online without having to do any video editing. muveeMix intelligently cuts highlights of a user’s video and pictures to the beat of personally selected music, and adds in other themed artistic elements based on the video creation style that the user chooses. more

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Need some help finding a video or clip on the net? ClipBlast! (www.clipblast.com), a pioneering video search technology, today introduced the industry's first online video search toolbar. ClipBlast’s patent-pending technology gives users the ability to search for video clips from across the entire web – a capability that even search-engine stalwarts like Google and MSN do not provide. more

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Want to get your Internet video masterpieces seen by a BIG audience? Blip.tv, an online video sharing site that hosts and distributes Web-based TV shows and videoblogs, announced today that its premium content will be available for television viewing through Akimbo’s Internet video-on-demand service. By showcasing its highest-quality and most popular online video series through Akimbo, blip.tv ensures that the best user-generated video will be available in millions of homes across the U.S. and Canada. more

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Adobe rolls out upgraded versions of Adobe Elements - Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. These are the light versions of Adobe's top of the line imaging products for digital cameras and camcorders. Both programs include much of the performance of their higher level brethren but with a much simpler and easier to use interface.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced two milestone upgrades to its digital photo and video products for consumers, Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements 5.0 for Windows(r) and Adobe Premiere(r) Elements 3.0 for Windows. The unique integrated functionality of the products allows users to do more with their photos and videos, whether adding impact to photo slideshows with video effects and transitions, providing dramatic pauses to videos with freeze frame effects or creating professional-looking printed CD/DVD labels and covers. more

More about the new Adobe Premiere Elements 3