Hypermasher is a must-see experience. You shouldn't trust my words and you just should head to http://www.hypermasher.com/hyperlapse, click play and watch for yourself.

The clips come from Hyperlapse, the new Instagram tool which allows you to shoot short videos, perfectly stabilized and which you can speed up to your liking, mixed up with some nice chill out, ambient music from soundcloud.

The result is a wonderful kaleidoscope of everyday life moments spinning in a neverending sequence.

A beautiful audio-visual experience about who we are, what we like and what we like to remember.

http://www.hypermasher.com/hyperlapse 

TimeTag is a new speech-to-text service for online video that makes it possible to make any video-based content, immediately searchable.

The TimeTag automated speech-to-text feature creates transcripts, meta tags and subtitles, making it possible to to search and share for specific information also within the video.

TimeTag makes it also very easy to record any live event, conference or presentation directly to the cloud, to sync the video recording with the presentation material and, as mentioned, to add full text captions over the video while making it fully searchable.

Key features include:

• Cloud-based video recording 
• Synchronize PowerPoint, PDF and Adobe SWF
• Upload video from Wirecast, Camtasia and Webex 
• Auto transcoding to H.264
• iOS and Android support
• SSL secure: Operates over HTTPS 
• Template designs for video player and branding options
• Integration with Google Analytics
• In-video search
• Video player integrating presentation, live video and captions
• Embedding of video player
• Password protection of specific content
• Video editing online 

Base price starts at £199/month for a max of 125 video clips and 4200mins of streaming.

Free 14-day trial available.

More info: https://www.timetag.tv/ 

oTranscribe is a free, open-source web app which allows you to easily transcribe your video by using a very simple interface.

You first upload your audio file and on the same web page you can start typing your transcription, while being able to easily start / stop the audio and to rewind or forward to any point you need to without ever needing to leave the keyboard.

The start / stop acts in a smart way, and everytime you restart the audio track after having paused it, the playback automatically starts from a second earlier from where you left. Lovely.

Playback speed control is available both through a slider and via keyboard shortcuts. You can also easily insert time stamps within the transcription by simply pressing Ctrl/Cmd+J, and then when you click one the audio jumps immediately to that specific point.

A set of useful shortcuts completes the toolkit:

Esc: Play/pause

F1: Rewind
F2: Fast-forward
F3: Slow down
F4: Speed up

Content is auto-saved automatically to your local browser.

Supported audio file formats: mp3, ogg, webm, wav

Excellent tool for anyone needing to easily transcribe any audio file. 

Free to use. Open-source.

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

Find out more: http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/journalist-creates-web-app-for-audio-transcription/s2/a555258/ 

Thanks a lot to Elliot Bentley who developed it.

If you are a videomaker looking for a less TV-like and more "cinematic" look of your clips, here some good basic advice on what you need to do from Noam Kroll.

Informative. Detailed. Useful. 8/10

Full guide: http://noamkroll.com/how-to-make-video-footage-look-like-film/ 

Flixmaster is a web app which allows you to upload, trim, edit and link together (as optional branches) multiple video clips and to publish and share them on your web site and social media.

Flixmaster accepts any type of video file and automatically converts it during upload. Once your material is uploaded you can trim your original clips to extract the specific scenes you want to use in your edit.

You can also add branch out buttons to other video clips at any point inside your video to build multi-plot stories, guide and tutorials where the student can decide his own learning path. The branch-out buttons can take viewers to other clips or to whatever URL you may want to specify.

The final video can be easily shared on all major social media channels or embedded on any web site or blog.

Free plan available.

More info: http://www.flixmaster.com/

Sign-up: https://secure.flixmaster.com/users/new

How it works: http://www.flixmaster.com/how_it_works

Pricing: https://secure.flixmaster.com/pricing

Professional / Enterprise offer: https://secure.flixmaster.com/enterprise

Konoz is a web service which allows you to package and publish your own YouTube video playlists into free online learning courses.

It works like this: Once you are logged in into Konoz, you can input the URL of a YouTube playlist. Once you have done so, Konoz grabs the set of video URLs of the playlist and creates a custom page for your upcoming course, in which each video of the playlist is a lesson to be seen.

Konoz displays for each video its title and duration and connects them in a learning list where a visual indicator also displays what percentage of the whole course has been watched.

Finally Konoz provides curators of these free video courses with the opportunity to offer custom perks to their students, by offering extra features and bonuses in exchange for a money contribution. Curators can establish the bonuses and the value for each. 

Thus Konoz offers a very simple way for those who are either YouTube creators to collect relevant videos or screencasts into playlists and then to package them into free online video courses, while providing also a stimulating option to reward their work.

Simple but interesting solution. Very easy to use. 7/10

Free to use.

In private Beta. 

Request your invitation here: https://konozlearning.com/ 

Video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpSwyh8sgSE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0urfNwjTnQ 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfvvzBpoxu0 

Mazwai is an online video hub collecting high-quality HD video footage under a CC-license (or Public Domain) that can be immediately downloaded and re-used on any project you have, by simply crediting and linking the original author.

All the video footage at Mazwai is available in HD under the public domain or the CC Attribution license (CC 3.0).

To use it, simply browse and click on any video you are interested in using. Watch it through the integrated video player and check the associated info. To download it simply click the down pointing arrow available on the video player and you will receive a .zip file containing both a .mp4 and a .webm version of your chosen video.

Excellent video footage. Must see.

No registration, no login required.

No download limits.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://mazwai.com/#index 

If you have produced your own film or documentary and are trying to understand what are the different options, in terms of digital distribution, that are available to you, here is a good guide from the POV blog on PBS.

The guide reviews five available digital distribution services that do not require approval (like Netflix, Vodo, Indieflix, Indiepix):

• Vimeo-On Demand
• ReelHouse
• MoPix
• Distrify
• CreateSpace
• Chill

Useful. Informative. 8/10

Full guide: http://www.pbs.org/pov/blog/2013/12/for-filmmakers-diy-digital-distribution-platforms/ 

See also: Review of Vimeo On-Demand

If you need to get the best video quality possible for clips that you need to publish online, here is a good short guide to the key settings, codecs, bitrates and compression levels you should use to prepare your video, (thanks to the Vimeo support team).

While these settings have been thought out to optimize video publishing on Vimeo, you can utilize these references to prepare and save video files you may want to publish through other video services as well.

Very useful. Clear, simple. 8/10

Full guide: http://vimeo.com/help/compression 

N.B.: The page contains also a very comprehensive list of mini-video tutorials covering optimization settings for most any video editing and production software.

If you need to review and provide feedback to video shoots in a simple and effective manner, WIP is a new web-based app which allows you to upload video content, and then to comment it visually, straight onto the video frames themselves, and then to share it with your colleagues or teammates for further contributions.

After you have registered and uploaded your video clip, you can click at any point of the video while in playback, and place your comment or change request anywhere on the video frame.

When your client, teammates or sponsors are invited to watch the clip inside WIP, they see a timeline populated with red dots representing the points in the clip where there are specific comments. It is enough to click on any of those dots to jump straight to that video frame and see the associated comments.

WIP allows you to manage multiple projects, and to upload different versions of the same video in each one. Invite reviewers is as easy as clicking a button and writing their name and email.

My comment: Easy, intuitive, straightforward. If you want to collaborate and provide feedback about a video clip, WIP offers an excellent solution at a very affordable price.

Free for up to 10 mins of video uploaded.
$100 a year buy you instead unlimited video upload space.

Try it out now: http://app.wipvideos.com/SignMeUp/Af4nAAAl3rwm 

More info: http://www.wipvideos.com/ 

The best portable wireless microphone kit alternatives available for purchase online.

If you are a web publisher or rookie video-maker interested in capturing good quality sound in your next video interview, having a good, reliable  portable wireless microphone kit can make all of the difference of the world (especially if the alternative is the built-in microphone inside your camcorder).

Recording the voice of the person you are interviewing with a dedicated mike, close to the person and not too sensitive to other sounds in the background is the ideal solution, to obtain the same kind of sound you hear on professional news interviews on TV.

In this collection I have put together by using the Amazon Wish List facility, you can find over a dozen "economic" wireless microphone kits (under $250) as well as indispensable accessories as adaptors, plugs, lavalier microphone backup and wind protectors.

Best portable wireless microphones for video interviews: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1H58ZIB8Y5N1W/ref=topnav_lists_2

While I have used CastingWords for all my video transcription needs in the past, I am always interested in learning about new alternative resources on this front.

Today I was kindly invited to check out TranscriptionStar, an online full video and audio transcription service, accepting a wide variety of file formats and providing finished work in four different file formats: PPT, TXT, PDF, XLS.

As long as you can upload your audio or video file, TranscriptionStar has everything you need to get a professional transcription (English only) even within 2 hours from your own upload (super rush TAT)*.

*I have not been able to verify this claim, nor it is clear to me, even after looking at their official rate card what the cost would be for a 2-hour rush job

For normal 24-48 hours transcriptions prices are in line with other services of this kind.

See more details here: http://transcriptionstar.com/pricing.html

More info: http://transcriptionstar.com/