The art of video production and editing to get your video ready for broadcasting over the internet. Here you will find articles, guides, tutorials and reviews that look into various video editing and production tools, the world of video compression and an insider look at videography.
Have you always wanted to create a YouTube video but were unable or unwilling to do so? Now is your best chance of doing so, thanks to a trio of third-party apps YouTube has teamed up with to help you do so in the simplest way.
YouTube currently gets more than 35 hours of video uploaded to the site every minute of every day. Which is more than I can possibly conceive of. You’d think that would be enough to sate Google’s desire to remain as the number one online video destination, but apparently not.
Keen to help out those people who haven’t got access to any kind of camera – whether it be a Webcam, video camera, or smartphone – and those who don’t feel comfortable showing their faces on the Web, YouTube has teamed with three third-party apps.
These apps – collectively known as YouTube Create – all allow you to create a video for free with nothing other than the tools provided.
YouTube really loves us all uploading video to the site. The problem is the quality of these videos can sometimes be shoddy, while the bandwidth needs are extravagant. The solution? An Irish company called Green Parrot Pictures, apparently.
User-Generated Content (UGC) is an integral part of YouTube. Hell, it makes up the vast majority of the content on the site, though the amount of more professional content from YouTube Partners has started to increase of late.
The problem for YouTube is the quality isn’t always there when it comes to UGC, especially now that many people shoot video on mobile devices which are also capable of doing a multitude of other things. Then there is the size of these videos to consider, as the bandwidth costs for hosting this kind of content must cost YouTube a (not so) small fortune.
Thankfully YouTube has found a solution.
Netflix clearly sees online video streaming as its future, and the future of media distribution as a whole. Which is why it’s upping the money it’s spending on acquiring ‘Watch Instantly’ content, money it’s saving on delivering DVDs by post.
Things are changing for Netflix, partly forced, partly by choice. A business built on the idea of delivering DVDs to customers by mail is now evolving into one built, and growing, on the idea of streaming content to customers via the Internet.
Netflix’ increase in publicizing and populating ‘Watch Instantly’ has seen the number of customers signing up to the service growing, and revenue growing as a result. Obviously. There is, however, a consequence to this: more money being spent on streaming content.
There are plenty of dedicated video editors available, some free, some costing a small fortune. But for the most basic editing options and tools, YouTube has now entered the fray with its new cloud-based video editor.
YouTube is, and has been for a long time, the biggest and most-popular online video site. It has a full range of videos, from long, professionally-produced clips, to a lot of user-generated content.
The site is now five-years-old, and celebrated its birthday by hitting the two-billion video views a day milestone. However, one thing that’s been missing from the site is a video editor, apart from the short-lived YouTube Remixer from a few years ago.
2007’s YouTube Remixer was a Flash video editor based on Adobe Premiere Express. It was quickly discontinued after users complained it was slow and buggy. So YouTube has gone back to the drawing board.
TubeMaster++ is software for capturing video files to your computer and converting them to different video or audio formats. It includes a video and music search feature as well.
TubeMaster++, available for PC, Linux and Mac, is a free downloadable video conversion software that includes search engines for video and audio. Â Goofy name, but an impressive variety of features for a free product.
It can capture multimedia files from your internet browser, or you can drag and import files you want to convert. Files can be saved on your PC or converted to other video or audio formats (such as AVI, MPEG, MP3, MP4, IPod, PSP, etc.)
I downloaded TubeMaster and gave it a try, and was impressed by how well this worked. The software is built around three primary components: media capture/conversion, video search and MP3 search. The audio/video search features in an of themselves are impressive features. Continue Reading…
Any Video Converter is Freeware that allows you to convert video clips of various format into numerous video output formats.
As far as freeware goes, Any Video Converter (AVC) does a decent job of quickly converting video files between different formats. From my own tests the conversion results were satisfactory.
In addition to just conversion, the software can also clip segments and merge or sort them to make new movie clips, in addition to trimming frame sizes of videos. Continue Reading…
SuperTinTin is webcam recording software for Skype that records both audio and video from Skype calls and emails.
SuperTintin is a webcam recording application for Skype. SuperTintin can record audio and video streams for all kinds of Skype calls and voicemails. The program requires Skype 3.0 or higher.
As an aside, ‘SuperTinTin’ is sort of a goofy name (for some reason it makes me think of a 1960’s TV dog with super powers…)
SuperTinTin works with both the audio and video features of Skype. You can record both audio and video from calls and voice mails, with the ability to record and playback as well. Continue Reading…
