Corporate vidcasts from TI

Texas Instruments Video360 Blog - Video360 Podcast

The "vidcasts" on the linked page illustrate how digital media is facilitating communications and comprehension in commercial organizations. It's nice that they discuss technologies for enabling the spread of video in applications such as set top boxes, video security, and more.

Broken Arrows - case study in gory detail

Broken Arrows - the Movie

The blog for this movie came out in May, stating a September date. Since the investors behind the movie include the founders of Google, they are upbeat about their schedules.

Transforming archives for digital access

TAPE - Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe - homepage

‘Conventional’ preservation of audiovisual materials is already quite complex, and the new possibilities offered by digitization are only beginning to be explored and understood.

Cellphone film?

The Cellflix Film Festival is an intiative by Ithaca College that asks students to submit their own footage. Remix central!

Creating Video Podcasts on Mac OS X

Tutorials - Creating Video Podcasts on Mac OS X

Now it's official. Apple has simplified the entire video sharing process.

They have a nice tutorial for using QuickTime 7 to capture footage from your camera, cut it up, and transcode it for Podcasting. They quickly mention the process of uploading files to a vault, creating an RSS feed, and then "publishing" to the iTunes directory.

For "quick and dirty", what more do you need?

Apple thinks teachers will embrace this way of delivering learning materials to students, and has a nice solution note to that effect, which includes a podcast creation guide.

IPTV now

TV will never be the same as computer networks engulf satellites, making them just another link in the mesh. Replacing dedicated SDI connections out to satellite uplinks, "cloud-based" services enable targeted TV programming.

As an example (delivered as a webcast, to computers at corporate clients), AT&T has just unveiled AT&T Internet Security News Network, "a first-of-its-kind 24/7 video Webcast that provides enterprises with critical security news and information, helping them to stay abreast of the latest security issues and remain one step ahead of malicious activities proliferating on the Internet".

MercuryNews.com 12/21/2005 When network security is at risk, they bring you the news


Another example, this time delivered over the internet (and viewed on TVs) to subscribers willing to pay $15 per month:

KyLinTV brings Chinese programming to the world, using set-top boxes from TransVideo, "the world's leader in digital video technology... its Super Easy Set Top Box and Mobile IPTV products use TransVideo proprietary CODEC technology based on H.264 / MPEG4-AVC standard. TransVideo provides technology to enable video and television broadcasting over the Internet".

And at the White House...

A Very Beazley Christmas

While we might wonder if our government resources are being deployed effectively elsewhere, there is no question that DIY video publishing gets the message out. PR will never be the same.

Television Archiving

Television Archiving is a great resource, provided by Jeff Ubois.

Video ads for blogs... Vive Networks

Vive Network - Cross Channel Multimedia Online Advertising is making a good thing even better by bringing video ads to blogs.

Click on the image to see an example.

According to Vive, the criteria used to determine a blog's worthiness include its quality and content, the target profile of the blog's audience, relevancy match with advertisers' needs, and blog traffic and impressions.

The company designed a system so that bloggers, once approved, only need to copy and paste a few blocks of HTML for targeted video ads to begin appearing.

Vive is currently in beta with a number of bloggers and advertisers and during the next several weeks hopes to make it available to the general public.

Videoblog from the set of "Superman Returns"

Superman Returns News is from Warner Bros, in advance of an upcoming release. What better way to see what goes on behind the scenes than to watch the production as it unfolds?

You can subscribe to the video extras via iTunes by typing in http://movabletype.warnerbros.com/supermanreturns/bryansjournals.xml to the "Subscribe to Podcast" option. We can watch "behind the scenes, making of a movie" footage before its release. Talk about building an audience.

The high definition trailers are hosted by Apple, in 480p, 720p and 1080p.

Good stuff!

New "products", new workflow

Cooking with HDV is a fascinating story of pioneering. Not only do the producers capture via HDV and then distribute video as 24p on DVD, they integrate distributed production teams (in LA and New York) to integrate computer playable materials and online resources on the DVD platter.

The producers are custom publishers. They intend to bundle their DVDs with food equipment and consumer electronic products as training and marketing support.

"It's all about doing things at your own pace. This kind of a product is geared toward that concept and that future. We just had to figure out how to do it first, that's all." - Steve Kirsh, Founder, Reel Food Entertainment

Hollywood and the Internet

Point: Peer-to-peer Films

FastCompany says Hollywood will have to adopt P2P distribution, from organizations like Kontiki.

Counterpoint: Hollywood Opts Out of the Google Economy

Consultancy I2 says it will be on Hollywood's terms, and at Hollywood's pace. Recommended reading.

Point again: Downloading for Dollars

Slate article by Edward Jay Epstein

Roundtables - "The Video iPod"

Roundtables - "The Video iPod"

"How will the new video iPod change video content in cyberspace? What does it suggest or promise as a cultural model? How will it affect independent media makers and corporate media providers? Is the video iPod good or bad for cinema—or is the term "cinema" no longer applicable in such a context?"

Nice thoughts from Mark Cuban and others on the impact of the iPod on cinema.

The Film Festival model

The Soul of Sundance's Machine - New York Times

There really is no way to find what's a great movie without audience reviews. I wonder how this process will live across markets and around the world once the internet makes distribution manageable.

Podcasting and Video Blogging conference session

Click here (or the graphic) to watch the entire session (1 hr).


The much-anticipated convergence of television and the Internet has not happened as anticipated. Instead, an ecosystem of mobile media devices is moving media consumption away from the desktop and into the living room using relatively simple web syndication technologies. Building on the combined cultural shifts of weblogs, the iPod and TiVo, streaming media is experiencing a long-awaited breakthrough into the cultural mainstream. This panel of experts will discuss some major effects of podcasting on mainstream media, and what’s happening with video-blogging.

Speakers
Moderator: Damien Stolarz, CEO, Robotarmy, Corp. & Author, Mastering Internet Video
Eric Rice, Founder, Audioblog.com
Kevin Marks, Principal Engineer, Technorati
Mark Larkin, Executive Producer, CNET Broadband and Webcasting, CNET Networks Inc.
Nicholas Ascheim, Product Manager, NYTimes.com

Excellence... New Tier

I've been enjoying a month by month improvement of communications from my alma mater, and I suspect I'm not alone. Universities have built in constituencies and extraordinary content. They are using targeted video publishing to increase fund-raising and alumni support. New Tier Communications has landed many influential accounts and deserves recognition for being out in front.

Here's what I received in my email today, taken from basketball action from earlier this week. Click on the picture and enjoy the highlight footage.

Elements of New Media technology offerings

So you have produced video, now you have to deliver it to your audience. That is easier said than done. How2Share Technologies has taken a comprehensive approach to personal media sharing.

Network: Their Pixpo network allows upload/download and management of media through multiple access methods.
Desktop software: The Pixpo client enables users to manage and share their videos.
Web service: The Flixpo service lets anyone browse and view clips, then download for either the iPod or PSP.

Beware, this is a startup, but their intent is admirable.

Filmaking today.... the case of Optimal Yoga

Optimal Yoga represents today's "state of the art" for startup production teams, in this case, Optimal Media Group. From their press release:

"OMG is an IP TV media production company with proprietary technology that publishes media for broadcast. These solutions allow content experts to personally coach millions of people."

Pilot publishing concepts like this test marketing assumptions and expose material to potential markets, partners and investors.

Upload Download

Veoh Networks - Internet Television Peercasting Network has released a nicely crafted tool for sharing and delivering video content.

The tool is easily downloaded, but I think the site is overwhelmed by useage. The server has been unavailable at times.

Certainly there is demand for a useful upload/download tool with media management capabilities!