YouTube, Copyright infringements, Royalty free music
It is good that YouTube offers the option to file a complaint against copyright infringements these days. Too many people abuse it without even knowing it and it is about time the general public learns that there is something like copyright. Personally, I always buy the right to use music for my multimedia projects and, [...]
Review of a video presentation
This is not the first time I show a video from MissK, and the reason is that she is a natural performer. Let’s have a look at this video and see what is good and what is bad: Now you have seen the video, let’s review what we have seen here: The good points: MissK [...]
YouTube doubled the size for uploads
YouTube announces that as from today, the upload for standard videos doubles from 1GB to 2GB, making it possible to upload bigger videos at higher resolutions. New features In addition, the YouTube team’s implemented new features to make it easier to show your HD videos on your site or blog by appending &hd=1 at the [...]
HD art video on YouTube
I uploaded a heavy art video on YouTube today and the result was really stunning in HD mode ! I was even surprised about the playback rate. Ok, it stutters a little bit here and there, but on the whole, HD on YouTube is becoming a good experience. No wonder Cnet was so excited about [...]
YouTube goes GoogleAdsense: Promoted videos
YouTube offers Promoted videos since about half a year ago and it works more or less like GoogleAdsense. The idea is to promote your own video and put it in front of other videos by paying for certain keywords per click. In other words, promoted videos show up in search results before all other videos, [...]
HD video on the web is not all sunshine – revised
The big problem with HD video is that it is heavy and therefore it can present problems for viewers with slow computers. And then there is the issue with slow connections. If you live in the United Kingdom, watching HD videos with DSL is not such a great experience. Stuttering frames, full stops for minutes [...]
CNET comparison between video services
Cnet is a great source for reviews on hardware. Whenever I buy a camcorder, I first go there to look up the reviews. This time, they did an excellent comparison test with HD videos between the most important video services offering high definition video hosting: YouTube, Vimeo, SmugMug, DailyMotion, BlipTV, Source and Facebook(which is not [...]
Vimeo: the secret of good quality content
Vimeo is to my mind one of the best video networks around because it has a high concentration of creative content providers. It is not like on YouTube where if you type “art video” in the search box, you get loads of music clips or ” the art of making jam“- type videos. On the [...]
Wide screen on YouTube
Wide screen on YouTube is going to change your workflow and it will encourage you to be even more creative. From now on, the player of YouTube is set to 640 x 360 pixels, which is actually equal to the dimensions of a High Definition Video (HDV)
Brightcove: End of the free ride – revised
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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