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Internet Video Newsletter - Sept 2005
Welcome to the end of September. It's been a hectic month with natural disasters sweeping across the southern part of the US and confusing elections in Europe.
The good news is that there are lots of new contests and opportunities popping up for you to make money with your videos. See below for some new contests with big cash prizes and as well as some new web sites that will post and share your video for free.
If you just want to be entertained, skip to the end of this newsletter and check out this month's collection of cool videos and cool video web sites.
By the way - just a little bragging here - we are now getting over 2500 visits every day and have over 1000 video professionals and consumers registered to get this newsletter.
New Articles, News, Announcements and Items of Interest
Want to win $25,000 cash, $20,000 worth of equipment and a worldwide distribution deal for your short film? AtomFilms? and Intel Corporation have just launched the Intel Indies Film Contest with a call for short film entries available at http://intel.atomfilms.com. November 21, 2005 deadline. Winners will be announced at a major film festival in January 2006. The contest asks entrants to create films that imagine what they would do with a magic wand. The theme allows entrants to fully unleash their imagination and tell the story of how they would transform their world, to make it better, easier, and more exciting, all through the magic of movies. more
Do you want to make money making video? The Essential Digital Video Handbook by Pete May is a very good high level introduction to what it takes to be successful making and selling commercial videos that make money. We are not talking abut artsy indie films, music videos or Hollywood blockbusters but down to earth commercial and industrial production. If you are just starting out, definitely check out this book. Lots of pictures, logically laid out and easy to understand. more
All about Streaming Video and Net Video. Check out Doug Dixon's 2005 guide to what you need in order to watch and create streaming video. For both beginners and professionals. more
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Need a New Camcorder? Read our Camcorder Reviews - How to Buy the Best Camcorder, Special Deals, What You Really Need and What You Don't
Are you thinking of getting a job in Hollywood as a professional video editor? You'll need to learn Avid. Are you thinking of evolving from Final Cut Pro, Ulead and/or Premiere to the editing program that the professionals all use - Avid? Then check out the new "Avid Editing" book by Sam Kauffman. Easy to follow - a great way to get started. more
Do you need to keep in touch while you are on the go or on the road? The good news is that you don't have to lug a laptop with you to check your E-mail. And the bad news is that you can't escape: even today's mobile phone handsets can do E-mail and browse the Web. But at least you can be connected on your own terms -- new wireless PDAs and the deployment of next-generation 10X faster wireless networks provide an astounding array of options. Check out Doug Dixon's Manifest tech article. more
Do you want to make a movie using your DV camcorder? Have you yet seen "Revelation"? Definitely one of the best Star Wars Fan Films out there. Even better, it is a free download from the Internet. Also, read about how Shane Felux and his wife Dawn Cowings spent three years and $20,000 of their own money to make our own Star Wars fan film, titled Revelations, distributed for free over the Internet. They had some help - hundreds of people from around the world contributed their time and talent to make this project a reality. Great editing and wonderful effects - more
If you are doing production or home theatre, you need some tools to correct and improve your video signals. TV One now offers four ultra-compact components that enhance television images and rebuild synchronizing signals. Included within the TV One-task? line, these components provide high-quality signal performance that is both improved and stable. more
dotPhoto, a leading digital photo sharing website, has just launched its ?video-catching? service, making it possible to save and share those precious memories with anyone, anywhere. Now you can point your camera phone, capture a video, and send it directly to your dotPhoto account to share quickly and easily with as many people you choose to invite. more
Looking for a single web site where you can store, access and share all of your multimedia files? Check out MediaMax from Streamload. MediaMax allows you to store, organize, access and share your entire digital media collection - data as well... all at one on-line locations. Pretty cool stuff. Video, digital image files, MP3s, any kind of file.
Confusion, tech issues delay legit file-sharing sites
Are you Akimbo? Check out the review of this new "video and TV on demand service. In addition to great classic and current programming, including video blogs and short films), they are looking for new content. Give them a visit
Getting legitimate online music and video file-sharing programs off the ground is taking a lot longer than originally promised. Two promising ventures have been hampered by technical delays and confusion over copyright rulings that seek to curb the wildly popular practice of swapping. more
You can easily create a customized video player for your web site by using Wildform Flix, Read the review. Better than Microsoft, Real Networks & Apples QuickTime. Nobody offers a more simpler and easier to use solution, especially at this price.
JVC's new Everio hard drive camcorders are now available. These cool new camcorders are very tiny and record MPEG2 video to a built-in hard disk drive. At high resolution, you can record about seven hours of DVD quality video onto the drive before eyou have to transfer it to your computer.
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__________________________________________________________________________The Indie Film Contest is coming - to promote their new Indie Film Music pack, SmartSound along with Avid and Alienware are teaming up to give one lucky film maker the entire SmartSound Indie Film Studio. Worth over $11,000.
Canon finally rolled out the first high definition video camcorder, the XL H1 HD camcorder. It comes with a 20x zoom, 1081 resolution option for ENG, extensive cine controls and 24 frame shooting.
If you are a Mac user, you will be happy to see the release of the new StuffIt Deluxe 10. It?s now fully integrated for Mac OS X, including Tiger! The new program does everything you have come to expect from StuffIt, with an amazing new addition ? It now compresses JPEG photos by as much as 30%!
Looking for an inexpensive, fast and easy way to cut and edit MPEG files? Check out Video ReDo. more
FOCUS Enhancements announced the new FireStore FS-2E Studio Direct To Edit? (DTE) recorder that records video to FireWire disk drives in edit-ready, native DV-NLE file formats ? eliminating the need to capture, transfer or convert clips prior to the edit stage of production. more
Looking to promote your video or film? TriggerStreet is looking for short films and videos for their upcoming contest and exhibition. TriggerStreet spotlights the best of the best.
Cool Videos You Got to Watch
Did you love Lord of the Rings? Hate it?
Either way, check out this cool trailer for the
"Dork of the Rings" a parody set in MUDDLE-Earth
that deals with throbbits, Elvis's, and the dark
power of franchised economy. This is director Tim Richardson'
latest in a long line of indie productions, and may very well
be the first to hit commercial success. You don't need fuzzy,
hairy feet to appreciate this.
This is a great story if you are interested in creating video movies using DV and desktop video editing software. You don't need a million dollars. "Revelations" is definitely one of the best Star War's Fan Film out there. Read about how Shane Felux and his wife Dawn Cowings spent three years and $20,000 of their own money to make our own Star Wars fan film, titled Revelations, distributed for free over the Internet. They had some help - Adobe software and hundreds of people from around the world contributed their time and talent to make this project a reality. Great editing and wonderful effects - more
Relationships can be very complicated. It even gets more perilous when kissing and smooching evolves to making out and sex. Maybe we need advisors? Therapists.. Maybe we need lawyers and contracts to help guide us through these complicated rituals. Checkout "Lawyers and Love". Well written, competently shot and edited with outstanding acting. This might be you.
If you have been in the stores lately, even though it is not even October yet, XMAS and Winter holiday decorations are already making their appearances. What are you going to get for your kids? Maybe you should get them the Jesus Action Figures?
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This is really goofy - Kitty Cat Dance by Steve Ibsen. Funny kitty dance song with some great flash animation. If you love cats - or know someone or does, this is a wonderful video to share with them. If you have a feline in your home, show them this and see if you can get them up and moving.
What can you do with a spoon? Especially a very big silver spoon? Who needs swords, knives and guns when you have a big spoon and karate skills? Check out Spoonman - a very cool short animation by William Vaughn
German political parties are not like the political parties elsewhere in the world. When they say party, they mean party. A fringe German anarchist party has outraged national television audiences with its election campaign television spot -- a video montage of booze-fuelled chaos, syringe needles and men cavorting with topless women. An estimated one million viewers watched the German Anarchist Pogo Party's already heavily censored political broadcast when it was shown for the first time. More at indyMedia including the raw, uncensored version.
GOOD STUFF: The story of a man, a dream and a whole lotta kites" was the winner of the Budweiser Filmmaker Discovery Award for the second season at TriggerStreet (2005). This short 9 minute film documentary is very inspirational and quite well made. Go to the TriggerStreet site (sign up if you are not already a member) and then go to Short Films - Season 2 - Overall Winner. By the way, if you are a filmmaker, they are looking for submissions for the next season.
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Want to create great videos but don't have the time to learn how to edit? Check out muvee. It really works!
Do you have a fellow worker in your office that really annoys you? Someone that keeps you from getting your job done? Check out this short and very funny film - Let Him Work 1 - from Gil Sasson Cohen that shows a good way to handle this issue. Short, sweet, simple but hilarious. This is a good one to share.
Great, Interesting and Wonderful Video Web Sites
Sometimes you don't need lots of bells & whistles to have a great online video site. Sometimes plain, simple and to the point seems to work best. Check out INDICANA. This no nonsense site delivers random slices of Indian life, complete with sights & sounds in short, interesting video clips from all over the country.
If you like watching TV news - over the Internet, you'll love Reuters news service videos. You go to the Reuters site and then scroll down the left side until you get to video. Powered by the FeedRoom, you can get breaking news and video features from all over the world. You can pick from a great selection of channels including Business, US, International, Politics, Sports, Oddly Enough, Weather, Life & Leisure, etc. The video looks great.
Big-Boys.com first annual college video contest is underway. As students head back to school from their summer vacations, Big-Boys is offering them an opportunity to cash in on their memorable college moments - by capturing those moments on video, and submitting them to Big-Boys.com. Big-Boys will pay over $20,000 for original videos in just the fall quarter alone, and will also bring celebrity status to the creators and stars of the videos themselves. Check out the submitted videos. Send one in and maybe win some big bucks!
Here is a cool new site that features 9 video-on-demand channels.. health, travel, baby boomers, Canadian politics, music videos, world issues, technology, etc. Great stuff. Check out thewebvideo.com. Wondering what you are going to cook for dinner to night? What are you going to serve your family? They have a great library of cooking videos. Also, if you are a producer, they are looking for content.
Are you an independent film maker trying to figure out the best way to use the net to promote your flick without spending big bucks for a Hollywood style marketing campaign? Check out the web site for "My Big Fat Independent Movie? a full-length comedy that includes spoofs from some of the indie film world's most renowned movies including "Memento," "Pulp Fiction," "Magnolia," "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," "Amelie," "Run Lola Run," "El Mariachi," "The Good Girl," "Pi," "Swingers" and many others. Make sure you watch their new theatrical trailer, one of the few this year to receive an R rating from the MPAA.
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That's it for September. Remember, if you don't want to get this newsletter in your email box ever again, just hit reply and write TAKE ME OFF in the subject area.
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