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YouTube: The Platform

In case there was still any doubt that Google wants to use YouTube to host all the video on the Web, it’s announcement earlier today to broaden its APIs makes it clear that is its goal. Once again, instead of making it easier to search videos elsewhere, Google is making it easier to host videos [...]

Smile: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

SMIL in interactive audiovisual presentations
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced “smile”) enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for multimedia presentations that can integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type.
SMIL presentations are described by text files. You can create or edit a SMIL presentation [...]

How to author a DVD with animated and audio menu

This guide describes how to author a DVD using ConvertXtoDVD v3. It also describes how to add external subtitles, create an animated menu with audio and merge video files.
Link
http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/100/26/

The Most ‘Def Awards

It’s Oscar time! And since no one on the Sound & Vision staff actually belongs to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (our applications keep getting kicked back to us), we’re celebrating this past year’s best pictures our own way — by declaring which films (and TV shows) actually have the best pictures [...]

Scart Distribution Amplifier

If you ever wanted to make multiple simultaneous video copies, or even to view your video signal on multiple TV’s all at the same time then you need a distribution amplifier. This unit takes one input and routes it to five, fully buffered outputs. It uses broadcast grade video amplification IC’s to maintain picture quality [...]

Total Recut

Total Recut provides online resources and social networking opportunities for fans and creators of video recuts, remixes and mash-ups. Users can watch videos or showcase [...]

Tune into YouTube on your mobile

Tech Radar 
YouTube has long been available for Apple iPhone users but now there’s a version for other mobile phones too.
YouTube for Mobile can be used on any mobile phone that supports video streaming and has 3G connectivity. That covers around 100 million devices worldwide, YouTube says.
As well as enabling you to watch millions of online [...]

Video Production Tips

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Video Production Tips
Just as informative as our video tutorials, but bite-sized and served up fresh every day. These tips are sure to kick your videos up a notch and get you thinking like a pro.

Panning
A pan is a basic camera movement that involves swiveling the camera horizontally around a central axis (usually a tripod). [...]

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s … the motivated edit?

It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s … the motivated edit? It’s a powerful editing technique, but to execute it well, you must consider the final edit when you plan the first shot.
One of our favorite words when we talk about editing is ‘conventions.’ You’ve read it in our mag or on our Website before, [...]