Tools & Software and Online Video:

Video Tools and software – Tools for video editing, video production, and online video marketing. Find video tools that you can use for online video sharing, posting, distribution, tracking, syndication, video analytics, and more…

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BitGravity – A Cool, Quick Embeddable Player + Major Content Delivery Network

p6logo BitGravity   A Cool, Quick Embeddable Player + Major Content Delivery NetworkNeed to embed a video in a site super-duper fast? Why not try the 3 form version of Bitgravity Player 6. Give it a video URL, width and height and you’re all set. But is it truly that easy?

End Your Video Encoding Blues with Encoding.com

encoding logo 200x34 End Your Video Encoding Blues with Encoding.comEncoding.com offers, get this, web-based, on-demand, video encoding. Nope, no joke. They will grab your video encode it and then send it back to you. Sign up is free and you can even do a test run but after that, you’ll have to pay

Sorenson Squeeze 6 – Total Video Workflow Solution?

sorenson squeeze 6 a Sorenson Squeeze 6 – Total Video Workflow Solution?Today Sorenson Media announced the launch of the latest update to their video encoding software program, Squeeze 6.  Read my interview with Sorenson’s CEO and President Peter Csathy on why his company is billing this update, the first in over a year, as “first total video workflow solution” for businesses. (Click the play button at the bottom of this post to listen to our podcast for my initial review of the software.)

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Screenflow 2.0 Improves Video Editing Features For Screencasting

screenflow 300x300 200x200 Screenflow 2.0 Improves Video Editing Features For ScreencastingListen to my podcast interview Telestream’s VP of Marketing Barbara Dehart on the new release of Screenflow – the screen capturing software used for creating, editing and publishing as video files. Listen in on how the new version’s enhancements will provide users with even better “business-quality video” than before.

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Create Animated Video Gifs for YouTube Videos

Video Gifsyou have ever wanted to include a YouTube video in an email (not Gmail – as it supports YouTube videos), you know that at this point in time, videos are next to impossible to email.  That being said, there is a neat tool available to create animated gifs from YouTube videos which might suffice in some circumstances.

VodSpot Makes Creating Your Own Video Portal A Snap

vodspot logo 200x30 VodSpot Makes Creating Your Own Video Portal A SnapVideo bookmarking service VodPod has officially unveiled a new service called VodSpot, and it’s understandably getting some attention.  VodSpot is a video portal creator that you can use to build your own video site.

ScreenFlow 2.0 Stream from Mac, Publish to YouTube

screenflow logo 200x56 ScreenFlow 2.0 Stream from Mac, Publish to YouTubeMuch like Procaster does for a hoard of live streaming, video-blogging, PC users, ScreenFlow 2.0 now gives the gift of video screen capture to the mass of Macheads in the world. The newest version of the screen capturing software gives easy access to YouTube publishing, advanced editing and more.

Video Heatmaps, A Breakthrough for Sales Teams?

wistia heatmap Video Heatmaps, A Breakthrough for Sales Teams?

Web video marketing, sales, and collaboration application Wistia today announced they have the first-ever heatmap tracking feature available specifically for online video engagement and tracking. Wistia’s CEO Chris Savage says the new feature is designed for visual analysis of individual viewing of video content by offering a colored display of the viewer’s interaction with web videos, and help sales and marketing teams quickly capture leads. (Watch a short video and demo of Wistia’s video heatmap in action.)

Apple’s New Final Cut Studio – Quick Overview

apple final cut Apples New Final Cut Studio   Quick OverviewAfter 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.

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.

Miro – Open Source Video Projects – Participatory Culture Foundation

miro logo 200x200 Miro   Open Source Video Projects   Participatory Culture FoundationThe Participatory Culture Foundation has been hard at work building up several services that make great use of online video. As such we at ReelSEO thought it was time that we took a look at them to see how they’re doing. The PCF is a non-profit organization that wants to build a new open mass medium platform that’s simple and easy to use.

Two projects – Miro and Make Internet TV are already up and running so I’ve decided to take a look into each and let you know what they’re all about and how they’re going along.

Web Video & Project Management Tools – Which Ones to Use

project management video Web Video & Project Management Tools – Which Ones to Use

I review some of the most popular (and upcoming) Web-based Project management and collaboration services are providing for video content – and which features are best suited for business projects where online video is crucial to a campaign’s success. Listen to our podcast episode by clicking the “play” icon.

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