11 Billion Videos Viewed Online in The U.S. in April 2008


18-34 Year Olds Viewed Nearly 5 Hours of Online Video per Person during the Month

RESTON, Va., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — comScore (Nasdaq: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released April 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service, revealing that U.S. Internet users viewed 11 billion online videos during the month, with YouTube.com accounting for more than …


The HDV Revolution Workshop - the world’s best digital moviemaking workshop returns to Seattle!



The HDV Revolution Workshop, the world’s best and best-known digital moviemaking workshop, has been taught in five countries to thousands of enlightened attendees. Now, it’s coming to the Seattle area on July 25 - 27th!

The HDV Revolution training workshop covers, step-by-step, the entire desktop moviemaking process from cinematography, lighting and location sound through …


Special 3-day Final Cut Pro 6 Hands-On Workshop, July 18 - 20th! Reserve your spot now


Here’s your opportunity to learn Final Cut Pro from one of the designers of the program!

Sign up for our Final Cut Pro 6 Hands-On workshop in Santa Monica on July 18 - 20th! The workshop will be taught by Michael Wohl, who was on the Final Cut Pro design team. Reserve …


dvcCast! screencast: Bitrate Budget Calculator


The dvcCast! Bitrate Budget Calculator is a sophisticated modeling algorithm that takes five factors into account to help you determine what your movie’s bitrate limit should be based on your particular situation.

 

Back by popular demand! Special 3-day Motion 3 Hands-On Workshop in Santa Monica


Sign up now for this in-depth look at the new, more powerful Motion 3 in Final Cut Studio 2 on August 4 - 6th in Santa Monica!

Taught by Larry Jordan, one of the foremost experts in Final Cut Studio, this Apple-certified hands-on workshop is ideal for motion graphics artists wanting to truly master their skills …


Advanced Final Cut Pro 6 Workshop, May 28 - 30th in Santa Monica - Not too late to sign up!


Sign up now for the FCP 300: Advanced Editing Techniques in Final Cut Pro 6 hands-on workshop on May 28 - 30th.

This advanced hands-on class, taught by top FCP expert Larry Jordan, covers intermediate to advanced levels of editing and techniques, effects, color correction, audio sweetening and much more with …


What brands of blank DVDs are the best?


We’ve always had good luck with Apple brand blanks. The charts below, from http://www.digitalfaq.com/media/dvdmedia.htm, rate blank DVDs:

1ST CLASS MEDIA - EXCELLENT DISCS:
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DV Enlightenment


NEW MOVIE EXCERPTS!

The DV Enlightenment DVD is a brilliant and highly enlightening course in Hollywood lighting for DV from DVcreators.net for anyone wanting to shoot stunningly beautiful, cinematic quality footage—for filmmaking, marketing projects, broadcast, special interest video, education or any other purpose.


DVcreators.net releases dvcCast!, a dream come true for web video publishers


dvcCast! box
What is dvcCast!?

dvcCast! is the killer app for publishing video, images and audio on the internet.

 

Watch the SampleLab™ tutorial here

Check out TimeFreezer™ here

Watch the movies, then download a free 15 day trial and see if you’ll ever be able to live …


Plane flights


Totally off topic, but so cool I had to post it. Here are the trajectories of planes over a few days in March 2005.

Oh wait, it’s an example of motion graphics!

 

DVcreatorsLabs dvcPrompt!


Hello digital video cognoscenti!

We at DVcreators.net have been toiling away secretly in our labs for over a year, and many have wondered what we’ve been working on, where all that smoke is coming from, and why so many neighborhood pets are missing.

Today we are very excited to offer you the first in a series …

 

Why does audio sound bad, or need to be rendered, in Final Cut Pro, Avid, Premiere or iMovie?


Final Cut (and other editing apps) will accept many kinds and formats of audio for import into the Browser or Timeline.

However, just because they will, doesn’t mean you should! :)

If you import compressed audio, for example, in MP3 or AAC codecs, or audio in a different bit or sample rate than your Timeline (such as 44.1 KHz, 32 KHz or …


New feature in dvcCast! 1.0.174 - preserve chapter and timecode tracks


By request from a customer, a new checkbox in dvcCast! 1.0.174 lets you copy chapter and timecode tracks from your original movie to your encoded movie. This movie shows how to set chapter markers in Final Cut Pro, export, then encode while preserving the chapters, all the way through to an auto-generated web page.

 

Canon XL H1S


New 20x HD Video Lens, Enhanced Image Control and Other Refinements
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., April 10, 2008 – Building on the success of its acclaimed XL H1 High Definition (HD) camcorder, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging technology, has introduced the new shoulder mount XL H1S and XL H1A HD camcorders, which include new advanced features requested by professional users for improved operation and image control.

Canon’s new XL H1S and XL H1A camcorders, which will be on display at the 2008 NAB Show (Booth #SU3020), feature an updated Canon 20x HD Video Lens with three independent manual adjustment rings (focus, zoom and iris), as well as enhanced manual focus and zoom control. Additionally, the XL H1S and XL H1A incorporate an expanded array of controls for customizing the image, display, and operation to match individual needs.


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