Online Video Publishing

If you are looking for a live-streaming camcorder capable of shooting full 360° HD video that has an affordable price, the 360cam from Giroptic, being crowdfunded on Kickstarter, has everything you need (including the certainty that you will get one, as the project has reached its planned budget multiple times over).

The camcorder, which is very portable and easy to use, uses three ultra-sharp fish-eye lenses which are all synchronized to simultaneously capture and stitch images in real time.

The camcorder is also equipped with:

• GPS antenna for image geotagging
• 3 microphones
• micro-USB
• gyroscope for image stabilization
• rechargeable battery
• micro-SD card slot (up to 64GB)

The 360cam can also capture photos at 4096x2048 pixel resolution in addition to video recording and live streaming at 25/30fps encoded via H264 and saved as a standard .mp4 file.

Starts at $249 - orderable now - available December 2014

Examples: http://www.360.tv/gallery?id=1 

More info: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/giroptic/the-worlds-first-full-hd-360-camera

Firepype is an online multimedia production pipeline service which allows you to program and automate the transfer, conversion, posting and notification of audio and video files.

For example if you need to periodically convert and upload files to a certain video or podcast sharing platform Firepype can be of great help.

Conversion and posting pipelines can be setup and customized to suit your specific needs.

Key features include:

• audio ripping from video clips
• cross-posting to multiple sharing sites
• automatic adding of watermarks
• automatic resizing of video
• no file size limitations

In Beta. Free to use (for now)

Try it out now: http://firepype.com/  

Tour: http://firepype.com/index.php/take-a-tour 

FAQ: http://firepype.uservoice.com/ 

A free online course from YouTube to help any video publisher maximize the use of the tools and features available in the new YouTube One Page channel experience.

The course starts on June 3rd.

This is the course program:

Sign up for the course: http://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com

The forum of the course will open on May 29th and the course materials (links to lessons) will go live on June 3.

Start prepping for the course now here:

1. See what's in store for you in Week 1 - Watch the trailer.
2. Take the pre-course SURVEY!
3. Check out the Playbook! There are some great tools and resources to give you a head start.

Find out more: https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/

https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/preview

FAQ: https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/faq

Course info: https://creatoracademy.withgoogle.com/course

TVRuler is a commercial web service which allows you to publish your video content in multiple ways (public, private, live and on-demand) and to  program and schedule the broadcasting of pre-defined clips according to your own schedule.

TVRuler automatically encodes all of the video material being uploaded and converts into the appropriate format for all types of devices and displays, frrom desktop computers, to tablets and smartphones.

TVRuler supports most common video formats (.mov, .mp4, .m4v, .avi, .mpg, .flv, .wmv, .webm, .asf, .vob). For encoding H.264 is supported and for publishing, both HTML5 and Flash player are fully supported.

TVRuler also allows video tagging and the organization of your video material into different content categories. 

Other key features include:

• Your video channel can be fully embedded on any website or blog.
  
  
• Viewing stats
  
  
• Support for both RTMP and HTTP streaming protocols, allowing full delivery of your videos to all iOS devices and making it possible for you to watch any part of your video without having to wait for it to first fully load.

Free 15-day trial available, it includes:

• 20GB of storage
• 75GB of bandwidth
• 1Mb livestream
• Video scheduling

N.B.: TVRuler distributes your videos through the Content Delivery Network Amazon CloudFront.

Features: https://tvruler.com/en/features.php

Tour: https://tvruler.com/en/tour.php

Pricing: https://tvruler.com/en/subscription.php

Find out more: https://tvruler.com/en/