2006 October 9

The online video editing market is really jumping. There are a few companies in this space. The big news however that Yahoo! acquired Jumpcut, the creator of a Web property and application that offers a publishing tool and an interactive user community.

According to Yahoo, "The acquisition of Jumpcut complements Yahoo's multimedia strategy and includes assets such as a strong team, unique technologies, emerging brand, business partnerships and a growing community of users." To learn more, details are available in a post on the Yahoo! Search Blog, http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000358.html and http://blog.jumpcut.com/.

Other big new is the rumored purchase of YouTube by Google for 1.6 billion dollars! And this is despite the fact that YouTube has not yet made any profits. It seems like the Internet bubble is back but now it has an online video focus. On top of that, this morning, YouTube Inc. cut a deal with CBS and two major music labels to provide music videos without worrying about copyright-infringement lawsuits.

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The new Adobe Premiere® Elements 3.0 software makes it easy to create, edit and share videos and movies. The new version enables you to burn your footage to a DVD in just two simple steps, complete with a DVD menu and scene index. You can easily assemble your movie by rearranging clips with drag-and-drop simplicity. You can also easily share your movies on DVD, the web, mobile phones, and virtually anywhere else. more

The Top 12 Ways You Can Profit from Web Video - The long awaited promise of high-quality, fast-loading web video has finally arrived. You might not get rich overnight with these ideas, but it is possible to create multiple, passive income streams using these web video business models. Here are the top 12 ways you can start profiting from web video today...

The New Camcorders Are Here! (almost) - Sony, Canon and Panasonic are about to release their fall camcorders. Internal hard drives, high capacity cards and HD for consumers are the order of the day.

If you are a video producer or film maker, you might want to check out The WebVideoZone (www.WebVideoZone.com). This is a members only resource that offers tools, tips and tutorials to help businesses get better results with Internet video. One of the most popular features is their Web Video Player, an FLV video player that makes it easy for anyone to add interactive web video to any site.

Want to play the Mark Foley game? - check it out at Atom Entertainment's AddictingGames' NewsGames channel created to mock the most popular headlines and cultural topics of the day. You can pretend to be a congressional page and see what Maf54 has to say to you...http://www.addictinggames.com/imfoley.html

Webcams are great for capturing short video clips and live video messaging across the Internet. Plus, webcams can be used for remote monitoring, some even with motion detection. But you don't necessarily want to tie up a computer to act as a video server for a connected webcam, so a better option for this kind of use is to use a dedicated Internet camera with a built-in network interface, like the Creative Live! Wireless. more

This is a very different type of online video contest - Pin the Tail on the Culture, Inc. announces a contest to find the most beautiful walker in the USA.

In an effort to support and promote the aesthetics of curvaceous beautifully walking women, the company will award three prizes to the best entries. (Note that we’re NOT saying beautiful walking women, but beautifully walking women—the face is irrelevant, only the walk is important.) The company will showcase all acceptable entries on the company’s contest website, http://www.poetryinmotion.info along with links to the contestant’s web address or email. When winners are picked in January 2007, they’ll be announced on the site. more

This is very interesting. Sort of like a google search for video and audio. By extracting and analyzing the audio for audio and video podcasts, converting it to metadata that can be searched, the HearHere software application from Pluggd allows users to jump right to their area of interest in podcasts. Relying on speech recognition and semantic analysis within its media player, HearHere lets users skip commercials in the beginning of a podcast or bypass the baseball highlights to jump right to the football segment in a sports report. more

Are you having a hard time keeping track of your projects? Who is doing what - what script and edit version is everyone on? What are the latest edit decisions?

Koral, a provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions for businesses, today announced the launch of its free-to-use Content Management solution at DEMOfall 2006. “Over the last 12 months we’ve seen a massive growth in Web 2.0 applications for consumers to help them manage their videos, photos, and blogs,” said Mark Suster, CEO of Koral, “Koral is the first of a new breed of Web 2.0 solutions for businesses. Koral helps people store, share and search the business information that lives in documents, emails, web pages, and folders – while keeping everyone in sync.” more

Matrox Parhelia APVe Video Card Review - Expand Your Video Display by adding additional video displays and monitors. Great for game players and video editors. more

If you are into technology or the latest happenings in the blogosphere or are way beyond Wired, you got to check out Revision3 - a cool online TV show channel with a variety of different shows that look at the world from a hip yet techie perspective.

In their words, "Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike aggregators, mash-ups, clients and web sites, Revision3 is an actual TV network for the web, creating, producing its own original entertainment and content. The content is designed for a new audience. This audience, like television, expects dependability and quality, but unlike television, wants a more gritty, edgy, highly-targeted and in-depth form of entertainment. With the proliferation of mobile video, iPods, Tivo and other Internet-connected set-top-boxes, video that is both on-demand and tailored to suit will be Revision3's specialty. Revision3 delivers technology, comedy, music, cooking, and more, all with the familiar faces you all know with years of experience."

Looking to make money off your independent film or video project? Check out Americafree.tv and their new IndyReels Program.

AmericaFree.TV is an advertising supported streaming video site (i.e., they provide free Internet Television - lots of free classic movies and TV). IndyReels is a program to share advertising revenues with Independent Film makers who chose to air their content on AmericaFree.TV. Selected films will air on the IndyFree.TV channel, and on our main channels as appropriate, or even as streaming Video on Demand.

www.dovetail.tv is a new online destination for independent film, television and music content. Dovetail features professionally-edited and produced content - independent from Hollywood - including short-format and feature-length films and undiscovered television and music programming. In short, Dovetail encourages artists and audiences to "Declare Your Independence." They currently offer multiple channels produced by independent producers and film festivals. Content channels, including SF Shorts, HowtoBehave, LAFCO and Dovetail Presents are intuitively organized to enable users to easily find desired content.

Are they really there or not? Did they crash the Emmy's or is it just some video magic? Check out "Nobody's Watching the Emmys"

This is a great concept and a fun video to watch. It's a mashup - where you take various sources and hook them up together to create an entirely new and unique piece of entertainment. Mix a popular modern song with a classic Marx Brothers flick and you get Get Retarded/Day at the Races Mashup

Lets Talk about Sex - this funny five minute flick at Triggerstreet.com is all about a dinner conversation in which a young couple discover things about themselves and each other that they had never before thought of. Written and directed by Ryan Moser, the film was shot entirely guerrilla style in a running restaurant. The actors wore lavaliere mics and the footage was exposed with practical lights.

This is very goofy and not the type of "realtime" video that we would ordinarily feature - but - it is interesting and has spawned a number of parodies and imitators. BreakUp by Bowiegirl

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