The last year has seen an explosion in the web video space, as countless sites have burst onto the scene promising fame and fortune to their users.
Until recently, video creators seeking a wider audience have had to painstakingly submit their videos one at a time to websites, repeatedly filling in all of the metadata along the way. But fear not producers! TubeMogul has come along to make batch uploading and even tracking your videos a cinch.
2006 proved itself to be the year of online video, and as the medium has evolved more and more free online resources have become readily available for those willing to look for them.
As universities get wise to the Open Courseware concept, and independent video producers share what they know with their peers there has never been a better time to get yourself a free video education.
Last time we discussed web-based video editors, we took a look at four of the less capable offerings in the web 2.0 world – Cuts, Gotuit, Motionbox and One True Media. While these sites are interesting and useful in their own right, they won’t help you edit your videos to any great success.
If you’re looking for an application with a bit more under the hood than cartoonish effects and text slides, the following editors may be for you.
Finding free music for videos or audio podcasts seems to be one of the hardest activities. Most of the audio content available online is protected by copyrights and the threat of bumping into illegal content is always in the air.
Is it possible to have access to music that is freely downloadable and distributable? The following article might give you the answer.
Online collaboration tools tend to focus on the sharing of presentations and corporate communications, leaving those working in the creative industry settling for second-best. But a new tool targeting designers, photographers, marketing creatives and even film-makers is about to change all of that.
Making it easy to meet online and annotate images, 3D panoramas, documents, video, and multimedia files with an intuitive toolset and no need to download a thing, Octopz looks set to make some serious waves.
It used to be that if you wanted to edit a video, you needed three things: money, patience, and a heck of a lot of free time. In the Cut & Glue age of editing, film producers spent countless hours hunched over celluloid, splicing frames together with their trusty Scotch brand adhesive tape. It was tedious work and if you wanted special effects and non-traditional edits, you really had to know what you were doing to avoid ending up with a ball of plastic ribbons.
Fast forward to the digital millennium and this is no longer the case. Free editing applications abound today, so the cost factor is no longer an excuse for all you would-be Tarantinos.
Live video broadcasting is taking the web by storm, with services like UStream, Mogulus and Operator11 leading the way. But sometimes the production effects on offer can be limited. Luckily there is a solution – CamTwist.
If you want to add picture-in-picture, watermarking, desktop sharing, RSS feeds, slideshows, videos and a host of visual effects to your web broadcasts, all of this and more is now possible. You are not limited to simply broadcasting your face to the world from a webcam.
Think for a minute how much information there is in the world. There are billions upon billions of books, videos, audio files, images, and web pages. Every day, people absorb more information and, in turn, use it to create new data for the world to see. Now think what would happen if all this information was available digitally on a website.
While we're not there yet, one organization is striving to at least take us in that general direction by archiving historical collections that exist in a digital format. The Internet Archive, founded in 1996, works in conjunction with a number of partners including The US Library of Congress and the Smithsonian to provide free texts, audio, moving images, and software to anyone with an internet connection.
I’ve written a couple of posts over at Studio Daily about Apple’s new iMovie '08 and how I was impressed with its new way of thinking about live skimming your video clips and selecting video for the edit. Others haven’t been as impressed. Whatever one's opinion of iMovie '08, it has completely changed from previous versions.
If you need stock images or video footage, and price is no object, there’s no better provider than Getty Images. The company was among the first to transfer the stock media industry to the web back in 1995, and it hasn’t looked back since.
Getty Images’ network of stock media providers is unmatched, and even if you’ve never used one of their images, you’ve definitely seen them in countless publications, ad campaigns and even motion pictures.
