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Internet Video Magazine Newsletter - February 2005
OK, we are in that boring week between Groundhog Day and Valentines Day. It is a perfect time to watch videos on the net. Speaking of which, are you going to make a sweet and loving video for your significant other?
We have new articles, trends and announcements you might be interested in, as well as new on-line movies and video sites that deserve a visit and your attention.
And of course, if you are active in this space, if Internet and streaming video is your business or obsession, check out the INDUSTRY NEWS section. Send us your press releases and case studies.
Send us an email - tell us all about your new online movie, video, animation, product - whatever... if you don't tell us about it, we might not find you. It's a big web out there...
By the way - we like movies. We just launched a new home video movie review section. So, if you are distributing to the home market - or if you want to check out what might be good to watch over the weekend, visit the new Movie Reviews - Home Video Reviews section. By the way, if you send us a nice short capsule review of a film or video you really liked (or really hated), we'll post it.
Also - are you involved with creating video blogs? We are writing up a special article about video blogs - tell me what you are doing.
Mark Shapiro - Editor in Chief editor@internetvideomag.com
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Cool New articles - stuff you want to know about...
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The 17th Instant Film Festival is coming soon and this time the theme is Singles and Dating. You don't have to be single to attend but if you ever have been you'll have a great time as usual. If you are single or have single friends who are looking to meet people we will have fun singles activities in conjunction with the festival this time. Writers, directors and actors will be making short films in 48 hours on the theme of singles and dating. If past Instant Film Festivals are any guide, the results will be provocative, exciting and brilliant! more
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How do you transfer your still images and video files? Info about Memory Card Readers more Stick it in and make it happen...
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Four Great Books for Video Professionals from CMP - AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro and Lighting for DV. more
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If you are a Mac user, you need to check out the new iLife ?05 ? a suite of tightly integrated applications with significant new upgrades to iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand and the latest version of iTunes. Apple info - PC Mag review iMovie Section
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If you want to make great looking music videos and slide shows - but don't have time to learn a video editing program or go to film school - you got to check out muvee's latest automatic video editing program - autoProducer 4. more Also, check out their special Valentines promotion - you get two free Valentines Day style downloads!
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Photo Album 5 for simple yet powerful photo management and basic editing - the new version adds some exciting new features like an improved user interface, new ways to view and find your images, more special effects and filters, improve output selections and a new image archiving feature called PhotoSafe. more
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If you are making independent films, documentaries or industrial/commercial projects, the most difficult aspect of the business is distribution. Checkout this new offer by CustomFlix. It's pretty cool.
Their new On-Demand DVD Publishing service now offers distribution opportunities with top retail and rental programs including Walmart.com, Wal-Mart DVD Rentals, Amazon.com Marketplace, Amazon.com Advantage, Netflix, CinemaNow, GreenCine, Froogle, and Yahoo!Shopping. more
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Looking for a powerful, full featured and easy to master video editing solution? Check out Adobe's new Premiere Elements - just $99. Read Doug Dixon's review
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Are you searching for an inexpensive and/or free online site to store your big video and multimedia files? Check out Streamload at www.streamload.com more. You now get 10 GB for free! Click here to open a free unlimited file storage account!
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Do you want to buy and sell video and/or multimedia gear and software on eBay? Before you do, please make sure to check out this new book from Paraglyph Press, ""Degunking eBay" by best selling eBay expert and author Greg Holden. more
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Have you had a chance to visit LaffLink?. (www.lafflink.com ). They have video clips of many of the world's best comics, delivering their best material. Plus cool jokes of the day and links to strange video clips.
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Great Video Web Sites -
If you are sort of nerdy and thrive on telecom and telephony news, you will absolutely love this site - TelecomTV - it is packed full of streaming video newcasts and reports that highlight the latest announcements, news, shows and events that impact the IT and telecom community.
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Sundance 2005 - Online Film Festival. This year, Sundance Film Festival has put a bunch of great award winning and finalist films on the net - for free. This includes animation, documentary and short films. The full program should be online until the end of June 2005.
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It was the All SonnyBoo Week at Underground Film.org. Peter John Ross is one of our favorite film makers, and a even better, a contributor to this site. If you want to check out great film making, check out UndergroundFilm.org as well as the Sonnyboo site.
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The world of online video has exploded in the last few days as both Yahoo and Google has released their new video search capabilities. Now it is easier than ever before to find specific video content online. This is a great boon for those video news junkies who wants to watch it all, as well as those who just need to know. You can search by program name, captions and subtitles. More from Yahoo
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Great Online Videos and Movies -
Do you like rock and roll? Do you like jumping out of airplanes and skydiving? Put them together and you get the "Usual Suspects" music video by Jared Wilt. According to contributor 4Video "This clip rocks. Great video, awesome visuals - and its all in sync, with very creative editing and a very nice custom web page design".
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Have you made the evolution from blogging to video blogging? If you have been checking out video blogs or vblogs or vlogs or just plain vogs, you will notice that most are very amateurish captured moments in time - However, you got to check this one out. Working Stiffs, the Living Dead has music, great editing, a plot - hey, its a movie that captures a moment in time. Plus I used to do dubs for AV. There are few jobs more dreary than monitoring the copying of industrial and training videos. If you like her style, check Ryanne's video blogging page.
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An Instant Film Production, "Hate or Date," was in heavy rotation on iFILM for a few weeks and racked up hundreds of thousands of views in an amazingly short time. In one 4 day period it was seen by nearly a quarter of a million people and now it is in the top ten most popular comedies ever on iFilm! An audience favorite from the Halloween festival, "Hate or Date" was written by first time Instant Film writer (but long time director) Adam Stein and directed by wunderkind Ben Rock. The film featured Instant Film virgins P.J. Ochlan and Nicolette Dimaggio along with veterans Michael Cotter and Bruno Oliver (playing Satan!). Checkout more great films at InstantFilms
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Quirky, awesome and very original. Check out this award winning and Oscar nominated short film - Holiday Romance - A would-be thief enters a house and finds plenty of reasons to make himself at home. Chief among them is the fact that he can't leave, having been trapped by his victim and forced to look after the place while she's on vacation. Can the tables be turned again?
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If you are a fan of the middle ages, jousting, Knights of the Round Table, jousting and very fast drumming, you'll love this prize winning short film, Medieval Mayhem, from the WFD - (World's Fastest Drummer) web site. What happens when two knights battle but are evenly matched? How do you pick a winner? That's right - drum off... (It's amazing what you can do with trash cans).
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We have a scoop. We got special footage of one of President's Bush's State of the Union Address. This is a big 14 Mb QuickTime file. OK, it's a parody but its really, really good.
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This short and funny, (and slightly adult) commercial for Pelo Hair Styling stuff takes fashion to a new high ... or maybe a new low. Check it out
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Do you like Cowboy music? CLICK TO WATCH this video of Fletcher Jowers singing "A Cowboy Lullaby" from the musical film "Ol Cowboys And Dreamers" starring Charlie Daniels, Becky Hobbs, Ian Tyson, Will Dudley and Fletcher Jowers.
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As we all know, the purpose of online video and flash animation is to sell stuff. One of the best examples around is the short flash animation "vidlit" for Yiddish with Dick & Jane. Not only is the animation very impressive, from a professional marketing POV, but the production is hilarious. If you ever wanted to learn the essentials of yiddish and be cool, you got to check this out. By the way, there are other "vidlits" on the site to watch.
Let's Get Medical is an extremely weird and moody short 3 minute film by Jon Tojek. Shot on 35 film, it is hosted on one of our favorite sites, UndergroundFilm.com. This film is extremely dreamy, strange and odd. We can't figure it out but it sure made our day. Let's go do some surgery.
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"White Bits" is a very cute, well produced short that demonstrates that almost anybody has their price. What would you do for money?
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The Feb 2005 issue is sponsored by Davis-Marrin Communications ? for the best in high tech media relations and communications. Video, embedded hardware & software, technology, telecom - we know technology and the editors that cover it
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