Video Channels/Networks
Essential news, reviews, general info, How-To’s and workarounds related to video channels like YouTube, Vimeo, VideoJug and others. Every channel has it’s own requirements and we explain what method to use to get the best results. Since Brightcove only works with the film industry and VOD services these days, we no longer cover its service.
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Latest news: Brightcove TV is dead Brightcove.tv no longer exists. Brightcove has stepped out of the consumer arena altogether. Their core business is now purely professional and beyond the scope of this site. We will keep previous articles on Brightcove for history sake, though. Alas, it was written in the stars: on 17 December 2008, [...]
Creating your own video channel – Part 3/4
In this tutorial we cover installing and FTP application, upload a template and activate a theme in your system, whether it is Joomla or WordPress. But first, we have to find you the right template theme.
How to make your video bigger without resizing
Let’s say you have a 320pixels x 240pixels movie and you want to upload it to a video channel? Then you need to adapt your video so that it will not stretch and look blurry. There is a rather simple trick for that: importing your video into a new one which is 480×360 pixels. That [...]
Creating your own video channel – Part 2/4
In today’s tutorial we look at the initial emails you get from DreamHost after you signed up and paid for the hosting package. We pick out the stuff you need to write down in your little notebook. If you don’t have that little notebook yet, this is the moment to get it because it is [...]
Creating your own video channel – Part 1/4
This is step 1 of 4 in the process of creating your own independent video channel. As explained in the introduction of this series, this is much cheaper then you might think and getting it up and running is not as complex as it seems. In this step, we concentrate on setting up the web [...]
YouTube news: New Captions Feature For Videos
This is really good news. VideoJug.com was, as far as I know, one of the first to implement the idea of transcriptions next to videos for the deaf and the blind (via screen readers) and now YouTube takes this a step further. The technology already exists for some time, but so far not many channels [...]
Creating your own video channel – Introduction -revised
Setting up your own video channel sounds expensive, a lot of work and really complicated, but it is not as hard as it sounds and it certainly does not cost a lot of money. In fact, it is very cheap if you know where to go and how to do it! Apart from creating your [...]
Viddix, a revolutionary video channel – Review
One of my students asked me yesterday what I thought of viddix.com. Since I never heard of it, I had a look at it and guess what? I was perplexed at what I saw there. This is a new revolution in video channels. No, let me rephrase this : This is THE REVOLUTION in video [...]
Embedding video & audio in WordPress – revision 3
If you want to play a video directly in your posts or pages, you cannot use the iFrame method because it doesn’t work in WordPress. iFrame is a way to import existing pages into your own page and it is frequently used by AudioAcrobat and other podcast services. The only way to make iFrame work [...]
Audacity, free sound editor
Audacity is a little gem under the free sound editors. It has a great noise removal feature which can supress static background noise as if it was never there. (Use it sparingly though, it can create weird effects. See How to reduce static in my audio? for more info about avoiding static.) There are many [...]
Is your blog blind reader ready?
Below you find an interesting article about the issues of accessibility and why you should check if your site keeps blind users in mind. I wrote some notes on this article because some of the suggestions there are obsolete. Browsers have evolved a lot, so do come back after you read the article. Since MiracleTutorials.com [...]
New section with free utilities
This old post has been removed originally but I had to place it back because it had many external links. It referred to the new Free Utilities section, which in the meantime is not-so-new anymore For the time being, all free utilities can be accessed via Free Utilities on the top navigation bar but this [...]
Do you need high definition video for iTunes or YouTube?
The immediate answer is No, you don’t need High Definition Video for podcasting on iTunes or YouTube. With a regular standard video format you can do everything on the web you want and more. However, in the not-so-distant future, I’m sure there is place for the HD format on the web, Brightcove.tv is already experimenting [...]
Brightcove, a neglected star by many!
Let me give you 4 reasons why you should consider Brightcove.tv as your prime video channel to start with as an entrepreneur. In the beginning I was not really charmed by the way Brightcove was set up to upload videos but when you understand how it works, it has some very convincing advantages over the [...]
Uploading big movies? Reset your Power Saving options.
Today I uploaded a video to YouTube of 459MB. It was a video of only 1 minute, but it contained only graphics and then you really want no compression before you upload or the result will be awful. It took about 5 hours and the end result was very peculiar because it was upside down [...]
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