Topic - Online Video & uploading

10 Things to do Before you Upload your Online Video

Tim Street is a viral video producer and is the Creator and Executive Producer of the Popular Viral Video Series French Maid TV, with over 30 Million Downloads of his online videos. That means he probably knows a thing or two about how to make a video go viral, so when he writes a ebook about doing just that, you should be reading it. 

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, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 4 and Compressor 3.5) that should allow you to do an endless variety of video editing including both sights and sounds.

Consumer Generated Video Ad Campaign Tips

It’s the dream of all marketers and website owners, get the consumers, users or your target audience to do your work for you. Have them create the content and spread the word. So what better way to do that than by asking them to create media for your ad campaigns…

Recent research states that more than 40% of marketers in the US plan on asking their consumers to create content for ad campaigns according to Forrester Research. The requests will come in the form of contests and allow the marketers to get direct feedback from their users bringing them closer to understanding what it is they would like to see from the company and brand.

Wistia Embedded Video Metrics – The Video Solution for SMBs?

I review the video sharing application and project management service, Wistia, and talk with CEO Chris Savage on how they are positioning themselves as an affordable top-tier business solution for the SMB crowd.

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YouTube Mobile Uploads Increase Exponentially

YouTube has recently stated that mobile uploads have been soaring over the last six month with over a 1700% increase. Since the iPhone 3GS was released daily uploads increased 400%. I’m curious what people are uploading that they think is so fascinating.

FeedRoom and Clearspring Video Sharing for Social Networks

It seems that this is Video on Social Networking Month and no one told us. Today The FeedRoom and Clearspring announced a partnership to create expanded video content distribution and bookmarking on their 4.0 Enterprise Video Platform.

TwitVid Enables Easy Video Sharing for Twitter

First there was Twitmatic, which let you track and find videos being shared on Twitter. Now there’s TwitVid which actually lets you share videos on Twitter. Convenient no?

TwitVid helps you to actually share your videos on Twitter which is quite useful really. It utilizes the Twitter API so you can login with your Twitter account which is handy.

Quicktime to have Built in YouTube Support

If you’re an iPhone user you already know you can watch your favorite YouTube videos on it via the app. However, if you’re a Quicktime user you’ve always had to do your encoding and video editing and then go either to YouTube’s page or use another application to upload your videos.

iPhone 3Gs Mobile Video Capabilities – Recording, Editing, Publishing & Streaming?

In the past, we covered mobile video apps for the iPhone 3G and we’ve talked about the iPhone’s built-in support for HD video.  For those of you that are unaware, Apple is working on new software for the iPhone (version 3.0) which is expected to be released this summer.  According to many articles we’ve been reading and screenshots that we’ve seen, the new iPhone 3.0 promises several enhancements specifically with regard to mobile video.

Youtube Contest & Suggestions for Making a “Good” Video

According to the reputable news organization, The Onion, Youtube has just released a new contest and is offering a $100,000 cash prize to the first user to upload a “good video” that has a “shred of originality or artistic merit,” and is “actually worth watching.”  

RIP Google Video Uploads – Get Your Sitemaps Ready

Yesterday, Google finally announced that they are shutting down the ability for users to upload videos to Google Video “in a few months”. I say finally because many of us expected this to happen for some time and given the efforts spent on enhancements to YouTube, it only makes sense that Google keeps Youtube as the source for uploading video.

Youtube HD Update – Large High-Definition Video Player Layout

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 default player on Youtube.  Now, when you choose the HD playback, the layout of the page is modified to display a much larger video player that expands the width of the page.   The new video size is a huge 855*480 pixels (actual resolution is 1280×720) and the player is 855*505 pixels.  Apparently this change was made back on December 5, but some users are just now seeing the update.