If you’ve ever needed a guide on how to integrate video on the web, and have wanted all of the information in a book on your coffee table, then the following could be a perfect buy.

Lisa Larson and Renee Costantini have written a new book titled ‘Flash Video for Professionals: Expert Techniques for Integrating Video on the Web’.

The book provides a framework and the professional solutions to make custom Flash video more accessible to those with intermediate programming skills. 

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A new study by Jupiter Research, commissioned by Akamai Technologies, reports that more than half of all viewers of online video will quickly switch to a competing video site when poor quality video performance is encountered.

“Today’s consumers demand immediate start-up times, 100% availability, and an experience that is constant over time. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to meet those expectations when delivering content from a centralized server.” Mark Larkin, Executive Producer, CNET TV.

The report states that online videos which interrupt to buffer or are slow to load account for the greatest sources of audience frustration. 60% of frequent online video viewers who watch videos more than once per week are unlikely to return to a video content site after a poor quality experience. 25% said they would never return.

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We all watch videos online at sites such as YouTube, Google Video and Metacafe. But how do you go about downloading those videos to your computer?

Here is a short but useful guide of how to, detailing which sites to use and some great hints and tips.

Video sharing sites are increasingly a resourceful destination for entertainment, documentary, indie clips, music and a lot more.

The only drawback that video sharing sites have is that in most cases there is no feature allowing the easy and immediate downloading of your preferred clips so that you could actually watch them even when not connected to the Internet.

But, unknown to many, there are indeed many easy ways to download your favorite video clips without having to install any particular software and independently of the operating system you are using on your computer.

I am referring to web-based video downloading services that not only let you download all the video clips you want but which also convert the same video clips in any of the many video file formats that you have a specific preference for.

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Podcatcher is a free plugin developed by Michael Pyle, which works with Beyond TV to enable you to watch video podcasts on your Home Theater PC.

Using Podcatcher, you can set the program to download video podcasts automatically, integrating the podcast title and information straight in to the Beyond TV folders with ease.

Limitations:

• Must Own Beyond TV4 or higher
• Will only Allow playback of BeyondTV supported files such as:

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In the past year a number of online video editing websites have popped up promising to offer a quick, fun and easy way to edit your video online. Today I’ll ask the question whether Online Video Editing is any good of whether you should stick to desktop based editing.

For the more technically inclined, online video editing seems at first like a bad idea. Editing video is one of the most processor intensive applications you can do on a computer, and trying to replicate that experience through a web browser seems like it would be an exercise in futility.

Nonetheless, several online video editor websites already exist, with recent additions coming from the latest video sharing site MySpaceTV, and the video sharing giant YouTube with the YouTube remixer.

This article takes a closer look at what’s out there in this space, and whether you should give these online video editor sites a closer look.

First however some cold hard facts about video editing in general…

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Michael Pick recently wrote an in-depth review of The News Room concentrating on how you can use its news video feeds to make money on your website. Taking a closer look I found a few faults with The News Room’s payment structure.

1. As you can see in the picture above it says that you can earn $4 CPM rate for video feeds. CPM basically means “cost per 1000 impressions”. But does it mean that 1000 impressions of the video feed box (shown below) will earn you $4 or every 1000 views of an actual video, i.e users have to play a video for it to count towards the 1000 impressions.
2. The News Room does not allow you to track your earnings. So at no point can you actually see how much you have earned. This is very frustrating for anyone expecting to earn money from The News Room.

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