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Los Angeles--Starting January 1st, 2008, VideoJug (www.videojug.com), the online video encyclopaedia of life, is running a month-long competition giving video uploaders the chance to win $2000. To enter, uploaders simply submit their videos to VideoJug and the prizes will go to the 3 films with the highest number of views during January 2008. more AV Toolbox Announces AVT-3900 HDMI Scaler The high bandwidth, professional quality AV Toolbox AVT-3900 takes in both analog and digital video signals and up or cross converts them to a 1080p HDMI signal.
DCSmackdown.com - December 6, 2007( PRNewsChannel ) / Orlando, Fla. - Forget Iowa and New Hampshire. The most exciting presidential election battleground may be unfolding on a computer near you. DC Smackdown is a new computer game created by former Disney animator Dave Holbrook. "It's only been a week since it debuted, and the response has been phenomenal," says Holbrook. Response has come from computer game enthusiasts and from presidential candidate representatives. "They've called wondering how their candidate is being portrayed," says Holbrook. "So I tell them. Sometimes they like it--sometimes not. But I hope they appreciate it's all in good fun." In DC Smackdown , political candidates, pundits, media figures and celebrities are characters. The object is to use humorous attacks to defeat political rivals. more
Adobe Delivers Flash Player 9 with H.264 Video Support HD Quality Web Video and Audio Now Available With Adobe Flash Player UpdateSAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Flash® Player 9 Update 3 software, previously code named Moviestar. Adobe Flash Player 9 now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The latest update also features hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced, full-screen video playback for high-resolution viewing across major operating systems and browsers. The combination of Adobe Flash Player 9 and Adobe Flash Media Server 3 (also announced today) enables the delivery of HD quality video to the broadest online audience. Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 is available immediately at www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer. H.264 support is an encoding option in Adobe Premiere® Pro and Adobe After Effects® software and is now integrated across the Adobe Flash family of products. more
The ‘Broadband Gourmet Network’ announces ‘Le Gourmet TV’. Dec 5, 2007 Le Gourmet TV is a video based website, (Internet Television Channel); providing programming 24 hours a day 7 days a week, about gourmet food and beverage. Videos are arranged in several ‘streams’: wine, beer, cheese, bbq, cooking, and field to table. In the coming months programming on coffee, tea, and whisky will be rolled out as well. Cooking programs will be hosted by pro chefs as well as seasoned amateurs with a story to tell. We will interview the makers of fine wine, beer, and cheese. Butchers, and bakers will also be featured as we try to cover all aspects of gourmet and fine food . The video clips will run between 4-7 minutes in length, and will be shown as standalone webisodes and multi-clip story arcs. The website will be free - no sign-up will be required, you just enter the site and start watching. In front of some videos will run a 15 second ad, much like on television, and of course banner advertising will also be there as well. more Adobe Debuts Flash Media Server 3 Product Line Secure, HD Video Streaming Delivered to a Broader AudienceSAN JOSE, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the Adobe® Flash® Media Server 3 family of products, which offers streaming media and real-time communication capabilities to the broadest possible audience. With industry standard H.264 video capabilities and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, Adobe Flash Media Server 3 provides content owners with increased protection for streaming high quality video and allows for the delivery of interactive media applications that work consistently across multiple browsers and operating systems. more
NewBlueFX Releases Sony Vegas Special Effects Collection to Breathe New Life Into Videos - NewBlueFX Vegas special effects plugins let video editors add transitions and effects for total creative control over multimedia needs. La Jolla, CA (PRWEB) November 16, 2007 -- NewBlue Inc., creators of innovative audio, video and multimedia technologies, today announced the release of new and updated NewBlueFX plugin collections for the Sony Vegas software family. The new plugins are comprised of three brand new collections as well as four version 2.0 upgrade collections. Newly released NewBlue collections include 3D Explosions, 3D Transformations and Film Effects. The NewBlue v2.0 upgrades include additions to Art Effects, Art Blends, Motion Effects and Motion Blends. All effects are based on powerful technology within an intuitive interface that is easy to use. New collection prices start from only $119.95 each, with upgrade effects starting from only $49.95 each. Both video and audio effects are offered with bundle purchase options. more
Blastwave FX Releases Spoilers - a New Movie Trailer Sound FX Collection - Detroit, MI – December 3, 2007: Blastwave FX (www.blastwavefx.com), announces the release of a new sound effects library called Spoilers. Specifically designed with movie trailers and commercials in mind, Spoilers is the ultimate high definition collection of commercial beds for the editor that wants to put a powerful kick to their final cut. This collection has 300 stereo movie trailers and compositions with matching 5.1 surround files, plus 200 high impact stereo imaging elements, totaling over 3 hours of unique commercial ready sound effects on 4 DVDs. more
Rattlebox, www.rattlebox.com, is officially launching its edgy, alternative videogram site. Rattlebox Introduces e-Cards - Free Video e-Cards Are Unlike Anything You've Ever Encountered Online Rattlebox, provider of edgy, alternative video e-cards, announces the launch of its new service providing extraordinary, professionally produced video e-cards that are fully customizable for any occasion or sentiment. The extensive collection of rattlebox cards is available at www.rattlebox.com. more
New Web Application and Online Community Lets Anyone View, Create and Share Interactive Video SAN JOSE, Calif. - December 3, 2007 -- After three months in beta, Asterpix today formally announced the public debut of www.asterpix.com, the first site that lets users easily create hypervideos -- interactive videos with links that allow viewers to navigate into and out of objects - and share them through websites, blogs and e-mail. In the same way that hypertext turns words into clickable links that allow readers to navigate to other pages, documents and sites, hypervideo allows objects in videos - people, cars, animals, buildings - to become hyperlinks, even as they move around in scenes and throughout the video. Viewers click on these links, or "hot spots" - which Asterpix identifies with a configurable marker such as a flashing circle or dotted rectangle - to navigate the video and get more information on objects of interest, just as they do with hyperlinks in text pages. more
Internet Video Magazine Launches Guide to How to Find the Best Camcorder for Your Family Solving the 2007 Holiday Camcorder Shopping Crisis - Buying a Camcorder for the 2007 Holiday Shopping Season is the most confusing ever November 23, 2007- San Diego, CA - This year, buying a selecting and buying a camcorder is much more confusing than it has ever been in years past. There are a plethora of differing technologies to pick from as well as a bewildering assortment of features and capabilities that need to be examined. It is not easy. MORE
DivX Acquires MainConcept AG, Leading Provider of H.264 Technology - SAN DIEGO & AACHEN, Germany, Nov 14, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) today announced it has acquired MainConcept AG, a leading provider of H.264 and other high-quality video technologies for the broadcast, film, consumer electronics and computer software markets. The acquisition is a stock and cash transaction valued at approximately $22 million with additional payments of up to approximately $6 million upon the achievement by MainConcept of certain product development goals and certain financial milestones during 2008. more
deskUNPDF Professional Features Industry-Leading Technology for Converting PDFs to More Formats Than Ever Before Plano, TX (November 20th, 2007) – Docudesk, a worldwide leader of PDF software solutions, today announced the launch of deskUNPDF Professional, the professional-grade version of its acclaimed deskUNPDF solution. deskUNPDF Professional will provide users with new functionality and innovative conversion formats to address a wide array of PDF document conversion needs. more
Nokia introduces a leading edge connected camera, navigation device and multimedia computer in one Nov 14, 2007 - Espoo, Finland - Nokia unveils the Nokia N82, the latest multimedia computer optimized for photography, navigation and internet connectivity. With the tools to discover the places and moments worth capturing, and the capabilities to capture and share them instantaneously, the Nokia N82 offers photography enthusiasts an enhanced camera experience. more
Camcorders in Space A Canon XH G1 HD video camcorder traveled into space for use in testing involving the capture of digital high-definition television (HDTV) images on the latest space shuttle mission. The XH GI was carried on the space shuttle Discovery, which was launched on October 23 from NASA’s
Nov 12, 2007 - On2 Technologies (AMEX:ONT), a leader in video compression solutions, announced today that a new version of its TrueMotion VP7 video compression is used in Skype™ 3.6 for Windows to help deliver High Quality Video calling to Skype users. The VP7 update helps Skype users experience sharper and smoother video calls in a bigger call window. The updated video technology needs significantly lower bandwidth and processing power than is normally required for comparable video quality.
“quarterlife” internet series LAUNCHES on myspace TV AditAll Launches End-to-End Video Ad Development Platform and Ad Placement Service Content providers, producers and adservers collaborate within the AditAll community to significantly reduce the overall cost of creating and distributing video advertising online more
Kulabyte™, a leading provider of advanced audio and video processing technologies, today announced that it will be launching a revolutionary real time series of broadcast appliances, Express GreenStream the industry’s first VP6 and H.264 live video encoding appliance for full SD and soon, HD resolutions. This new solution uses Kulabyte’s patent-pending TimeSlice™ video encoding technology to deliver 2 pass VBR qualities in live encoding and streaming environments in a lightweight, ½ half- width, 1RU box with solid state storage and low power multi-core CPU’s. Express GreenStream uses only 50 watts of power at peak load. The Kulabyte Express encoding solutions enable faster-than-real-time video encoding, providing noticeably better picture quality and significant bandwidth savings, while utilizing industry standard codec engines. Media creators can encode, and distribute digital content at speeds more than 12 times as fast as the industry-standard codecs alone, and deliver higher picture qualities in live streaming applications using the company’s patent-pending TimeSlice™ video encoding technology. more
Telescope, the leader in participation media services and Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) the leading service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced that the companies have provided the first multichannel voting platform for participation media events, part of a growing industry that has become more significant to broadcasters. The two companies have successfully delivered the application, which enables audience members of popular participation TV shows to send votes and interact via the Web, through their mobile devices, and using landline voice calls. FOX is among the first broadcasters to use the new Telescope-Akamai platform, which will be offered to a wide range of TV clients that demand real-time audience interaction through a robust multichannel environment. FOX’s ‘On the Lot,’ which concluded its run in August, tallied entries from landline, wireless, and online participants in real-time, using a powerful application, the Telescope Integrated Media Engine (TIME), for integrating Web votes into the overall tally. This multichannel capability provides viewers with greater levels of choice in how and where they interact with a TV show, and makes their interactions relevant. The combined Telescope-Akamai platform provides broadcasters with a robust, scalable set of technology services that can manage live events.
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Internet Video Magazine Launched "The Teenagers Guide to Making Movies for the Net" November 4, 2007 - San Diego, CA -Today, Internet Video Magazine (www.internetvideomag.com) launched a special section for parents to help them guide their teenagers to safely make and post great videos for the Internet. This new section covers the basics of video shooting, audio capture and video editing, and provides many helpful hints for those parents who want their kids and teens to safely create their own videos for the net more
iMovie '08 & iDVD, Mac OS X Leopard --New Missing Manuals from O'Reilly Media - Finally, Instructions You Really Want to Read Metacafe, whose more than 27 million unique viewers each month make it one of the world’s largest video sites (comScore Media Metrix, August 2007), today launched its new “Director’s Cut” channel. Now live at www.metacafe.com/directors, the channel showcases short videos made for the interactive Internet medium that honor the art of storytelling and the craft of filmmaking. more Lifetime Television and Telescope have teamed to deliver a mobile marketing campaign for Lifetime’s 13th annual ‘Stop Breast Cancer for Life’ program, which runs through the end of October. Mobile subscribers can text “Pink” to the short code L-T-I-M-E (58463) to send words of encouragement or names of loved ones affected by breast cancer and they will appear both online at Lifetimetv.com and in text-to-screen on Lifetime Television. The “Text Pink” campaign runs across all U.S. mobile carriers, and relies on Telescope’s industry-leading expertise in managing large-scale mobile applications for broadcasters. In addition, in an effort to raise funds for the cause, a $2.99 premium charge for one month provides consumers with exclusive access to content including celebrity tips from the likes of Fran Drescher, Daisy Fuentes, Whoopi Goldberg, Patti LaBelle, Ricki Lake, Reba McEntire, Mya, and Holly Robinson Peete. All of Lifetime's proceeds are donated to breast cancer awareness charities. more
Yoursports Launches YourSports.com for Amateur Athletes and Sporting Enthusiasts - YourSports™ Launches Sports Media Platform Devoted To Recognizing Amateur Athletes That Play ‘For the Love of the Game’ SEATTLE, October 24, 2007 – YourSports™, a pioneer in sports-oriented Web 2.0 application development, today announced the launch of its amateur sports media platform – yoursports.com – featuring internet TV and web applications dedicated to evolving the way amateur sports are viewed, shared and connected. Built by athletes for athletes, YourSports recognizes the 93 million amateur sports participants (athletes, families and fans) that play for the love of the game. YourSports features the first user-generated nationally broadcasted highlight show along with Facebook Platform applications each designed to recognize and connect athletes and fans on both the national and local levels. more
October 19, 2007--SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fusa Capital Corporation (OTCBB:FSAC - News), a leading innovator of multimedia search engine technologies for consumers and digital content providers, today announced the addition of Link TV's global news and current affairs programming at www.searchforvideo.com. Link TV news and current affairs programming covers issues not typically covered by the U.S. media and provides Americans with a diverse, non-American perspective on global issues. www.searchforvideo.com will feature Mosaic, a Peabody award winning program that features a daily 30 minute compilation of translated broadcasts from news broadcasters in the Middle East, Global Pulse, a regular review of news stories from TV broadcasters worldwide, and Latin Pulse, a bi-lingual current affairs program that covers critical issues in Latin America from a Latin American perspective. more
New York, October 16, 2007 – Pop!Tech, the annual ideas summit and social innovation network, today announced the release of new, international editions of some of its most popular video podcasts. With the support of dotSUB (www.dotSUB.com), creator of a new browser based tool enabling subtitling of web video, a subset of Pop!Tech’s “Pop!Casts” will now be available in freely downloadable, subtitled versions in eight languages. The Pop!Casts feature some of the world’s leading thinkers sharing their visionary work and ideas, and can be accessed at www.poptech.org. more NewTek’s TriCaster STUDIO Assists in Production of Live Pre-Game and Post-Game Major League Baseball Playoff Web Casts on both FOXSports.com on MSN and MLB.com San Antonio, Texas (October 16, 2007) NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, announced today that its TriCaster STUDIO portable live production suite will be used by FOXSports.com and MLB.com to conduct their recently-announced live Web casts of pre-game and post-game shows for Major League Baseball’s World Series and American League Championship Series. The half-hour Web casts, featuring FOX Sports' Chris Myers, Harold Reynolds of MLB.com and Ken Rosenthal of FOXSports.com, will be available on FOXSports.com on MSN and MLB.com before and after the televised pre- and post-game coverage of each contest. more Metacafe And Peerbox Team Up To Offer User-Generated Videos On Mobile Phones - Beverly Hills, CA (October 16, 2007) - PeerBox by Nareos, a popular mobile social networking service, today announced a partnership with Metacafe, the world’s leading independent online video entertainment site, to provide Metacafe’s 27 million unique monthly visitors (comScore Media Metrix, August 2007) access to highly entertaining short videos on their mobile phones. more SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 15, 2007 — The BBC and Adobe® Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE), today announced a strategic relationship around the delivery of Web video. By adopting Adobe® Flash® Player software, the BBC will make its free catch-up TV service — BBC iPlayer —available as a streaming service across Macintosh and Linux®, as well as Windows®, by the end of the year. The strategic relationship will also allow the BBC to provide a single consistent user experience for the majority of streamed video and audio content on www.bbc.co.uk. The BBC iPlayer on-demand streaming service will complement the download service currently available. This non-exclusive relationship is part of the BBC’s strategy to reinvent www.bbc.co.uk, to ensure all its rich-media content is accessible to the widest audience possible.
Clifton, Virginia —October 15, 2007— AmericaFree.TV (www.americafree.tv), a leading Internet Television broadcaster, announced today the launch of an Internet streaming TV channel devoted to Halloween programming. The new channel, available at www.HalloweenFree.TV, will feature both new, exclusive, content, such as the “Spooky, Funny Halloween” movie produced by Noisivision Productions (www.noisivision.com) in Burbank, Calif., and the new Halloween episode of the “Tough Guy” reality series, together with classic Horror and Science Fiction. The channel features movies with some adult language and situations and is not meant for young children. more
Drew Carey and Reason Foundation Launch Video Journalism Project, Reason.tv - Carey hosts videos examining issues like traffic congestion, immigration and eminent domain. In the first Reason.tv video, Gridlock, released today, Carey delves into a problem aggravating nearly everyone: traffic congestion. Carey meets Josh Lipking, whose 16-mile commute should take 25 minutes. On Los Angeles’ slow-moving, jam-packed roads it takes Josh 90 minutes – each way. That’s three hours a day, lost. Gridlock, hosted by Drew Carey, is available online at http://reason.tv/video/show/6.html. You can also view a lower resolution version of the video, without the video’s extras, on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsVMAP0zVgo. Reason.tv’s YouTube page is http://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV. more
CAMPBELL, CA – October 15, 2007 – Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE), a worldwide leader in media management and Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless technology, today announced HD File Converter Pro, a Windows-based application for conversion between DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO/DV P2 file types and various non-linear editing (NLE) file formats such as QuickTime, AVI Type 2 and MXF.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CallWave, Inc. (Nasdaq:CALL - News) announced today that they have been named one of the top 50 fastest growing technology companies in the state of California by Deloitte & Touche. This designation caps off a year full of new product launches from CallWave including the very popular Vtxt voice-to-text voicemail application that has already hit over one million transcriptions since its launch in June of this year. more Digital Anarchy Announces Knoll Light Factory 3.0 for Photoshop - New Version Has Improved UI, Real-Time Preview, and Support for Intel Mac and 64-bit OS San Francisco — October 9th, 2007 — Digital Anarchy, a leading provider of cost-effective special effects software for Adobe and Apple products, has released version 3.0 of the acclaimed Knoll Light Factory. The new features in this Photoshop package give increased control over the look of hundreds of lighting effects, and further the creative abilities of photographers and designers to enhance existing images or create original works.
Panther Express, a global provider of high-performance low-cost content delivery services, announced today the availability of a new comprehensive, turnkey CDN offering that enables Internet Service Providers (ISP) to expand their services. ISPs can now deploy CDN services on their own networks that they own and control. With these new services, IPSs can offer a broader range of service to existing customers, and gain the ability to attract new customers with a more comprehensive service offering. more
Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual provides the best possible guidance to scrapbookers, photographers at every level, budding graphic artists--anyone who wants to get the most out of the latest Elements upgrade. She clearly explains Photoshop Elements 6's exciting array of new features, including the new Quick Edit function, Windows Vista compatibility, improved RAW conversion, a handy Quick Selection Tool, and more. more
Innovative effects designer and technology developer NewBlue, Inc. announced the inclusion of select NewBlueFX plugins in the new Adobe® Premiere® Elements 4. Collectively entitled NewBlueFX Elements, the offering features more than 43 dazzling effects chosen from the NewBlue 3D Transformations, NewBlue 3D Explosions, NewBlue Art Blends, NewBlue Art Effects, NewBlue Film Effects, NewBlue Motion Blends and NewBlue Motion Effects collections, as well as the upcoming NewBlue Video Stabilizer plugin. more Torque.TV Launches the Next Generation of Digital Television for Motorheads
New York, October 8, 2007 – Gentlemen, start your engines (and fire up your monitors!) Launching October 2007, Torque.TV, an Internet television network for motorheads, will offer full screen, broadcast quality video entertainment 24/7 for vehicle enthusiasts around the globe.
Original programming includes Driving with Danny (Indy winner Danny Sullivan pushes the hottest cars to the limit); Best of the Motor Web (Shira Lazar hosts a weekly tour of auto sites & videos); Miss Torque.TV (viewers vote for Miss Torque.TV 2008); plus coverage of motorsport events like Night Under Fire 2008 (the largest single day drag racing event in the world), and the Silver State Classic Challenge 2007 (a wild, no holds barred, top speed test on a closed Nevada Highway). Channels on the Torque.TV network include: Tuners, Trucks, How To, Motorcycles, Hot Rods & Muscle Cars, Motorsport, Next Car, Wild Wheels, and Supercars. more
Columbus, Ohio – October 6th, 2007 The independent film ‘Horrors of War’ will be released from Maverick Entertainment on DVD November 6th, 2007 in North America. The DVD will have a commentary track, behind the scenes, and other special features. The film has already been an official selection at 20 film festivals and has won awards for the filmmakers at the Columbus International Film Festival, Fright Night Film Festival, and other genre festivals. Horrors of War was shot entirely in Ohio with an all Ohio cast and crew. more Launched last week, the official website of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival is your source for into on Festival tickets, planning your trip, volunteer, job opportunities, and news on films from the 07 Festival that are in theatres now. Check back in early December for the announcement of the Festival's '08 line up and for great Sundance Film Festival merchandise available exclusively at the Festival and through our online story. During the '08 Festival the site will feature filmmaker interviews, news stories, video episodes, podcasts, and photos that bring the energy of the Festival's hub in Park City, Utah to wherever you are. more
Making Things Talk--New from Make The (Electronic) Gift of Gab! Sebastopol, CA—Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is fun, but when your homebrewed creations start talking to each other, things get really interesting! In Making Things Talk (O'Reilly, $29.99), author Tom Igoe bestows the power of communication upon your favorite tech creations through simple projects that present the guidelines for electronic verbosity. Whether its microcontroller-powered devices, email programs, or networked databases, Igoe demonstrates the ability of electronics to interact in fun and interesting ways. more
On2 Technologies announced that it will help launch the new live streaming site Justin.tv. Leveraging the On2 Flix Publisher Live solution, an innovative browser-based plug-in that renders the user’s browser into an encoding and publishing platform, videos are encoded directly on the user’s desktop and streamed live on the Internet. Users simply plug in a webcam and log on to Justin.tv to begin streaming. On2 Flix Publisher Live works with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and Firefox browser for Windows-based PCs. In addition to making live broadcasting easier, Justin.tv combines a strong viewer community, customizable channel pages, full video archives, and an easy-to-browse front-page to offer viewers and broadcasters endless opportunities and a wide-array of content from 24/7 to event based broadcasting. At the same time, the video is streamed using On2 VP6™, the best quality streaming video format available for the ubiquitous Adobe® Flash® Player available on more than 90% of PC’s worldwide. more
GReenPeak Technologies announces revolutionary battery-free WIRELESS COMMUNICATION technology October 2, 2007 - Utrecht – The Netherlands – GreenPeak Technologies today announced a revolutionary new product portfolio for ultra-low-power wireless sense and control networks. The new company offers open standard, easy-to-install wireless communications devices for sensor applications that can operate without power cabling or a battery. more
LONDON / NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1, 2007 – Narrowstep, Inc. (OTC BB: NRWS), the TV on the Internet company, today announced that the company has been chosen to power CAMPAIGNTV, a new politically focused Internet TV channel, which supports the UK’s Labour Party.
CAMPAIGNTV, http://www.campaigntv.org, is a completely independent project led by a group of filmmakers who are committed to making high-impact political programming accessible to everyone. more
Agion® launches “That’s Revolting!” Website Starring Florence Henderson - Hysterically revolting interactive online video will have people hurling with laughter as they learn about the omnipresence of microbes in a typical home. www.thatsrevolting.com Wakefield, MA – September 25, 2007 – Agion, a global leader in natural antimicrobial solutions, has announced the launch of a unique website experience starring Florence Henderson, America’s favorite TV mom. Shot on the original (but reconfigured) set of the classic ‘70’s TV sitcom that made Henderson an American icon, “That’s Revolting!” features Henderson as the mom in a whacked family that’s inadvertently passing microbes to each other in a series of over-the-top comedic videos. Florence also plays the perennially cheerful host, who urges web viewers to ‘Spot the Germs’ before family members get ill with everything from Flesh Eating Bacteria to Salmonella. It’s fun for the whole family! more
muvee announced the latest version of it’s muveeNow application (companion software for digital cameras) with significantly enhanced movie sharing capabilities. muveeNow 2.2 is fully integrated with YouSendIt’s online file delivery service, making it easier than ever for users to send their movies via email to friends and family directly from within the muveeNow application — no need to launch a separate email program. So, instead of sending hundreds of photos to friends via an online album (i.e., Photobucket, Flickr, etc.) -- which often gets a little monotonous -- you can pick the best photos, let muveeNow do its editing magic (it can tell the difference between good and bad photos and eliminate red eye) and send away all from one easy-to-use interface. With this new upgrade, sharing photo and video memories with friends and family has never been easier. more NORTHRIDGE, CA - September 26, 2007 - SmartSound Software, Inc., the leading provider of music and scoring technology for film and video professionals, announced that Roxio has integrated its technology into the new Easy Media Creator 10 video editing suite. The suite includes 26 free tracks from SmartSound's royalty-free music library, as well as the ability to search for, preview and purchase additional tracks for use in the VideoWave timeline. SmartSound's music makes video projects more creative and fun because it is fully customizable. SmartSound instantly edits tracks brought into the VideoWave timeline to fit the exact length needed, with access to multiple music arrangements for every length. This makes achieving a professional-quality music score for a project easy and affordable for users at all levels. more
Pinnacle Systems Announces New Versions of Pinnacle Studio MovieBox with HDV/AVCHD Support Complete Hardware/Software Solutions for Capturing, Editing and Burning DVD and HD DVD Discs Tewksbury, Mass., September 27, 2007 - Pinnacle Systems, Inc., the consumer division of Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced the latest editions of Pinnacle Studio™ MovieBox® with HDV and AVCHD support. Leveraging the product’s reputation as the ultimate movie-making solution for analog and digital video, the new Pinnacle Studio MovieBox Plus and MovieBox Ultimate include a stylish, high-speed USB 2.0 video capture device and a full version of Pinnacle Studio Plus version 11 and Studio Ultimate version 11 respectively—the software that has been reaping awards for delivering robust HDV/AVCHD video editing and authoring capabilities. more
Make Money by Making a BS video! Longmont, CO – September 27, 2007 - - BS Industries (www.BSFlag.com), the maker of the Official BS Flag™ and Official Bullshit Flag™, has announced that they are now accepting submissions for their first Official BS Flag-YouTube contest. The competition encourages all aspiring producers, directors and actors to create and submit an original short film using either the Official BS Flag, or the Official Bullshit Flag, and offers a Grand Prize of $5,000, a Second Prize of $1,000, and a third prize of $500. All entrants will also have an opportunity to be contracted for future BS Flag Industries related creative projects and videos. more On2 Technologies Inc., (AMEX:ONT), a leader in video compression software and solutions, announced today upgrades to its Flix product line to support the new VP6-S video profile added by Adobe to the Adobe® Flash® Player 9 update, code named Moviestar. On2’s Flix product line is the leading line of VP6 based video encoding and publishing software solutions for Adobe Flash Player. Flix software is available for desktop, server and browser-based applications for Windows, Linux and Mac, and is used by many of the leading web video portals and user-generated content and social networking sites. The new VP6-S video profile offers greater simplicity in the encoding and playback of high-resolution, full-screen video, thereby allowing high definition video to be streamed and played back within processor power limitations posed by the majority of personal computers. On2 will ship its flagship Flix Engine upgrade for VP6-S mid- October, concurrently with the Adobe Flash Player 9 update. The remaining Flix product line with VP6-S upgrades will ship during the fourth quarter of 2007. more
One True Media (www.OneTrueMedia.com), the only place online where you can combine photos, video, music and special effects in completely new ways to create amazing video montages, today unveiled a lineup of exciting features to let you do just that. With a long list of all-new services, making photo/video montages on One True Media is still fast and easy, but the site now features a new lineup of ways to "wow” your friends and family, including a wide range of special effects and sophisticated editing and social media posting capabilities. And now you have more options than ever to share your montages even sending them to mobile phones. more
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September 22, 2007 - San Diego, CA - Internet Video Magazine added a comprehensive overview article of the new Sony Sound Forge 9 software for professional videomakers and film makers. While video editing tools like Sony Vegas+DVD Production Suite and Adobe Premiere Pro have strong support for audio, dedicated audio editing tools like Sony Sound Forge 9 and Adobe Audition can do much more for cleaning and enhancing existing tracks, and creating, recording, and mixing new material. Sony Sound Forge goes much farther as a professional digital audio production suite. It is designed for the entire audio workflow: record, analyze, and edit. more
Full iLife 08 integration for PulpMotion 1.4 - PulpMotion 1.4 adds full support for iLife 08 media browsing including full support for iPhoto'08 events and the new iMovie'08 Events and Library Structure. This new version also increases performance when switching between large media sets and comes with 2 new themes available via the inbuilt theme updater more DISNEY-ABC TELEVISION GROUP AND AOL SIGN DEAL TO BRING ABC'S PRIMETIME LINE-UP TO AOL VIDEO. Shows to be available the day after they air. Burbank, CA and Dulles, VA -- (September 20, 2007) Dedicated to expanding its network and channel brands across multiple platforms and connecting viewers with their favorite shows anytime and anywhere, Disney-ABC Television Group and AOL today announced the availability of full-length episodes of popular primetime shows on AOL Video. Delivered via a co-branded version of ABC.com's Emmy-winning broadband player, full episodes of ABC programs are available today at http://video.aol.com and beginning next week will feature ABC's new fall lineup of programming. The agreement marks the first time ABC's primetime programming has been made available on a major portal and is also the first time a major portal has offered a full feature version of a broadcast network's online video player. more
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