IntercastNetwork is a rich-media interactive platform that allows brands to connect to audiences using a combination of live-streaming video, real-time polling, live chat, Q&A, payment processing and more.
The resulting platform works well for live broadcasters, who can track audience engagement levels and feedback during in real-time, and adjust their message accordingly.
With the platform, publishers can push live video to viewers in a number of ways using the technology, including on Facebook tabs, microsites, mobile, or to homepages, through banners or expandables, for example.
Alongside the main video window, real-time polling, chat, and other applications run to further engage the audience. With all these technologies combined, the broadcaster has something closer to a “real” conversation with viewers. They’re talking “with” their viewers, not “at” them......
Ooyala has just launched Ooyala Social, which provides the following key benefits:
Users can pay to see specific videos with Facebook credits, PayPal, a credit card—even their mobile phone number. Content may be rented, subscribed to, or purchased outright.
Ooyala Social supports group chats—among friends, groups, or everyone online.
Viewers can watch seamless video on every kind of screen and platform, from Facebook to connected TVs and iPads.
Lock your content until a preset number of viewers log in to watch simultaneously or buy the movie.
Users can share videos easily with their friends, watch a movie together at the same time or “loan” it for later viewing.
Use a fully customizable framework to create unique social video experiences that captivate audiences and make your brand stand apart.
WeVideo gives me cloud-powered, collaborative video editing on almost anything with a web browser and Flash.
...Part of the quality issue is that my account is limited to 852×480 and my input was screen capturing a Facebook game on this. I have a Plus account ($6.99/mnth), but with Ultra ($39.99/mnth) you get 720p output and 50GB of storage, no watermarks, and 1080p is an add-on option.
With the Commercial level ($79.99/mnth) you get some extra support options as well. At any level above Plus, you also get priority processing. Right now, my videos were ready in just a few minutes because they’re probably geared up for far more people.
A free account is all but useless there as it gives 1GB of storage and export is limited to 360p and only to online accounts like Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo and Twitter.
Rovi nabbed up the DivX line earlier in the year and now, they’ve laid down their cards to show us all why. They want a chunk of the adaptive bitrate streaming market.
To get it, they’ll need to take it from Flash and Silverlight, Adobe and Microsoft respectively.
That’s a pretty tall order.
Rovi, though, is ready for the fight. They say that DivX offers DVD-like functions and other features that the rest of them just haven’t got: subtitle support, multiple language audio, DTS, 1080p as well as standard FF, RW, play, pause and resume. It’s also got DRM in it, so that means security is in place. That could be one of the reasons that places like Best Buy, DISH, Lionsgate and Warner Bros are all using it.
Back in June, Film Riot‘s Ryan Connolly reviewed Apple’s Final Cut Pro X (Episode 107) and was not too complimentary.
Final Cut Pro has been industry standard for awhile, but the new version leaves a lot to be desired.
Mainly, the big problem is that old FCP projects cannot be uploaded into the new version, yet allows projects from the low-grade starter editing software iMovie to be imported.
Ryan feels, rightly, that this is an insult to professional editors everywhere who have used the other iterations of FPC in the past. It’s also a shame, since Apple has always made a great product for professionals, and now seem to be tailoring their high-end software to amateurs and leaving the pros out in the cold.
By definition, a video infographic is a visual representation of data and knowledge in the form of an online video.
It’s content marketing in a unique, high impact form. A video infographic hits the audience with morsels of high-value information, which, after viewing for as little as 90 seconds, could improve their perspective on the subject matter.
Because it’s an entertaining combination of audio and visuals, viewers are more likely to make an emotional connection to the message and are more likely to respond to it, share it with friends and colleagues, and even view it multiple times.
Media Converter is a new and extremely easy-to-use media conversion utility which utilizes the ffmpeg library.
Media Converter comes with presets to convert just about any audio and video format including AVCHD and H264 files.
It also supports the creation of custom presets, batch operation, it can auto create bars to keep the right aspect ratio. It also can switch between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratio when needed.
Media Converter is absolutely free and open source.
Hidden deep below the surface of the Insight tab is a secret gem called…-Hot Spot. Ok, well this feature is actually nothing new, in fact it came out several years ago.
However, have you ever gone so deep into HotSpot (subsequently analyzing over 400 videos to determine a pattern in gaining the highest consistency of viewer attention) that your eyes popped out of your head?
VideoJS is an HTML5 Video Player, built with Javascript and CSS, with a fallback to a Flash video player for when the browser doesn't support HTML5 video.
Ever notice how many of your favorite shows start with a great two-minute scene followed by the opening credits, instead of the other way around?
How often has a great movie trailer caught your attention and made you want to go see the movie right away on opening night? With so many entertainment choices, all types of creators know how important it is to capture the attention of audiences early on.
This same idea applies to videos on YouTube, and here’s how you can use this creative technique to attract and keep your viewers watching.
Leanin this week launched a social video player, which integrates with current video hosting solutions, provides player customization, and encourages sharing.
This legal video question comes form Malia Leinau Meyers of Malia Professional Photography, out of Kailua, Hawaii, concerning the use of copyrighted music in her video montages of photography work.
Here’s what you need to know about copyright infringement, getting proper permissions, an licensing terms – all why keeping costs down and staying legal!
So you want to upload videos on YouTube and you’re ready to start a channel.
You go to the settings, you give your channel a name, and then there’s this thing called Channel Type. You click on it and there’s these six options that come up.
How do you know which one is right for you? How do you know which one to choose? Does it even matter?
YouTube users can now apply a number of Instagram-like effects to their videos, giving them a cartoonish or Lomo-like look with the click of a button.
The effects are part of a new editing feature that also includes cropping and advanced image stabilization.
Taking the shaking out of video uploads should go a long way towards making some of the amateur footage captured on mobile phones more watchable, but it can also be resource-intensive — which is why Google’s engineers invented an entirely new approach toward image stabilization.
The new editing functionality will be part of YouTube’s video page, where a new “Edit video” button will offer access to filters and other editing functionality.
YouTube announced the launch of a new edit button, which lets you improve video quality and add effects. Users can now edit videos without having to re-upload them.
Now, you can edit uploaded videos from YouTube itself, and maintain the same video ID.
“Users have long requested a way to make quick edits to new and previously uploaded buttons without having to re-upload the video,”.
Hookflash is an application for the iPad that combines group video conferencing and group messaging with features specific to corporate phone systems.
Trent Johnsen, Hookflash co-founder and CEO promises that ”millions of iPad users will immediately have access to the powerful communication capabilities previously limited to expensive corporate telephone and video conferencing systems.”
New version of Flash Media Server offers expanded, dynamic protocol support, including HTTP Live Streaming to iDevices, as well as DRM enhancements.
FMS 4.5's primary intent is to leave the heavy lifting of choosing which protocol to deliver in (RTMP, HTTP Dynamic Streaming, HLS, etc) to the server. FMS 4.5 can generate real-time repackaging of an mp4 file for both HTTP Dynamic Streaming and HLS, including automated segmentation of mp4 files into the specific fragmented mp4 (fMP4) segmentation required by various Android, iOS and other mobile devices.
In addition to single stream repackaging, FMS 4.5 will also automatically create multiple bitrate segmentations, for adaptive streaming, as well as manifest files in Apple's m3u8 format. Instead of the previous manual process of rewrapping, segmentation creation, and manifest files, FMS 4.5 promises the ability to automate these basic processes.
With a nod to digital rights management, FMS 4.5 will also include DRM based on the Flash Access DRM scheme. Rather than requiring a broadcaster to buy a full-blown Flash Access 3.0 server, however, there will be a limited version of Flash Access baked into FMS 4.5 to cover RMTPe (encrypted) and segment-level DRM (a key feature of fMP4, which separates the header information from each fragment). Adobe claims it is also enhancing DRM to cover iOS devices to a limited degree--a claim we'll explore when we get a chance to review Flash Access 3.0 and FMS 4.5 , as HLS is based on MPEG-2 Transport Stream, which has no inherent capacity for DRM within each packet.
RTMFP will be available on the FMIS, a change from Adobe's previous scenario of only allowing RTMFP on the Enterprise Server version.
Wibbitz provides a video player plugin for your site that takes static web content like images, headlines and video clips- in real-time and automatically creates an interactive video, giving users an engaging overview of the website by...
http://www.makayama.com presents the 'Movie Mount for iPad2'. A unique hardware accessory which allows you to radically improve video capture with the iPad2....
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A quarter of people in countries with access to high-speed broadband are streaming video to their TV, although more than 80 percent still watch broadcast television as well.
But that’s slowly beginning to change: According to survey data from Ericsson, there’s been a slight decrease from 2010 to 2011 in the percentage of folks watching broadcast TV, while Internet-enabled options, such as long-form streaming sites like Netflix, short-form videos aggregators like YouTube and downloaded content are all on the rise.
EncodingAll, available at www.encodingall.com, is a multi-format encoding solution that aims to simplify the process of video encoding while reducing costs through cloud computing. The offer is based on encoding packs, without obligation and purchase via online payment, and is now the most attractive in the market.
EncodingAll is the first cloud encoding platform to propose media transcription. The solution analyzes audio tracks and generates subtitle files and keywords in XML files. Thus, medias can be more accessible, ready for indexing, and visible by search engine.
Forty video encoding formats are already avaiable dedicated to optimizing videos on screens (Mobiles, IPTV, Web) and devices (Xbox, PSP, Zune, Blu-Ray,…). More features will be added to the service in the coming weeks.
Social video service Tout is taking a big step to broadening usage, with new capabilities that will allow users to share moments with friends even if they don’t have its iPhone app.
It has also improved communications between users, with the ability to “re-tout” and reply to videos others have uploaded.
Tout is a service that lets users record short 15-second moments and share them with friends.
Originally, the service launched with an iPhone app, as well as the ability to share short video clips from YouTube.
The latest update, which just launched in the last few days, enables Tout users to record or upload videos straight from the web browser.
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