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Apple's New Final Cut Studio - Quick Overview

After some time and impatient waiting on behalf of many Mac-based video editing professionals, the newest version of Final Cut Studio was realsead out in the wild last week. The studio packages up six great applications (Final Cut Pro 7, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, ...

Only 1/6th of Online Video Marketing Is About Advertising

With Online Video (OV) one of the fastest growing segments on the Internet, does it surprise you that the vast majority of articles written about online video purely focus on ad insertion?  Advertising makes up only about 1/6th of the market for OV, of course ...

FedEx Skips Super Bowl, Opts for Online Video

Fed-Ex has thumbed their nose at the old guard way of advertising early in the year and instead opted for online video. So don't hold your breath on the uber-cool Fed-Ex Super Bowl commercial as it just won't be there. Does this mark a major ...

Youtube Tests 3D Stereoscopic Video Player - YT3D

Search Engine Roundtable published an interesting post about a thread that the author discovered on the YouTube help forum which points to a Youtube engineer (Googler Pete), who been developing the capability to view videos on Youtube - in 3D with a stereoscopic player.

Microsoft Silverlight 3 Offers H.264, Full HD, Dev Tools

Version 3 of Microsoft's video player is out and included a host of new functionality including H.264  and High-Definition video. The multimedia software is available for Mac OS X (Intel-based Macs), Linux and of course, Windows.

Creating Persuasive Interactive Video for E-Commerce

There's been a lot of buzz recently in the blogosphere surrounding the use of interactive elements to drive up the performance of video, so it begs the question - how should video interactivity be applied to e-commerce video?  The answer, I believe, is that interactive techniques should ...

Viral Video Genius Quits Day Job for Online Video

"Viral Video Genius" Nalts, well known in the online video world as one of YouTube's most prolific viral video creators and YouTube comedians, led two separate lives until last week, when the two worlds recently collided and he was outed as a Consumer Product Director ...

Hulu Vs. Nielsen The War of Numbers

According to the New York Times, Hulu is angry, angry with Nielsen. ComScore, who probably doesn't even like Nielsen considering their past, sides with Hulu. Hanging in the balance are the true traffic numbers of Hulu and the reputations of all involved. The problem gets ...

Ooyala CEO Named Among Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs

Bismarck Lepe, CEO of Ooyala, a video technology company that provides an integrated platform enabling the delivery, management, and monetization of high quality video content, was listed in the under 30-year-old list of Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs of 2009 by BusinessWeek Magazine. The list is ...

How The Rocky Mountain News Put Video SEO Hair On My Chest

Some people are saying newspapers are dying, but one of them gave me my own "birth" into online video marketing and video search optimization. I speak of the Rocky Mountain News, the oldest newspaper in Colorado, which published its final edition on Friday, February 27, 2009. ...

The Lexus of Video Sharing Social Communities - Test Drive With Openfilm.com

High-Quality, High Resolution, High Ambitions - Openfilm is not YouTube. I think if you were to even call them a YouTube clone you might offend the site's designers and founders not to mention the content publishers and users. Instead, OpenFilm is more like the Lexus of ...

Instructional Videos and Video Tutorials for Businesses

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Stephen Chao, CEO of Wonderhowto, the largest aggregator of instructional videos on the Web today. In our podcast show, Stephen talks about how a former President of Fox Television and USA Cable decided to get involved in the online video community ...

Video SEO BlackHats Attack Google Video Search

According to ZDnet, during the past few days, Google Video has been targeted by a group of SEO Blackhatters who have already managed to hijack more than 400K search queries on Google Video.  As a result, users who are tricked into visiting the resulting video ...

Remove Video Title and Ratings Info In YouTube's Embedded Player

Today, Youtube introduced another small change to the Youtube emdedded player.  Youtube videos that are embedded within pages will now display a prominent title of the video along with the video ratings information at the top of the embedded player.

Upload HD Videos to Youtube and Embed High-definition Youtube Videos

A few weeks back, we posted news about the fact that Youtube was testing HD (high-definition) video playback.  Shortly after that, Youtube officially launched HD video playback on their site.  When it was first launched, videos in HD would play within the new widescreen 16:9 ...