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…
Some of us are the do-it-yourself types or don’t have a huge budget to implement a solution from some of the major providers of online video delivery systems. Some of us just need to get our hands dirty and some of us are proponents of Open Source and all that it has to offer. In the realm of online video delivery Kaltura looks like the place that these people turn to.
Kaltura has recently released version 2.1 of its Wordpress plugin, the All in one Video Pack. This plugin for Wordpress 2.5 or higher allows you to do a great deal of things with Wordpress and rich media including the ability to upload or import a video into your post. You can even record it straight from your webcam to the post if you so wish.
Kaltura, an open-source video publishing platform, just launched an open source video module for Drupal, a leading open source Content Management Platform used by more than a million sites. This new module, dubbed, “Kaltura’s All in One” enables Drupal site-builders to easily add video and rich-media functionality to their Drupal sites.
The module is comes with 10GB of free hosting and streaming that can be later upgraded. It was designed specifically for Drupal and seamlessly integrates with several key Drupal features and modules, including CCK, Views, cron, tags and taxonomy, and user permissions. The module is currently compatible with Drupal 6 (a Drupal 5 compatible version will be available soon).
Below I have listed 9 separate sources that you can utilize in order to automate the process of uploading your video to the various video sharing sites and video search engines. I wanted to have 10 top tools but I am only aware of 9. Many of these tools come with additional features such as the ability to track and report on traffic to your videos from the various video sources.
Illumenix is an in-depth online video metrics and analytics service. They offer a wide range of services including syndication tracking, player tracking and Flash Video Analytics via their StreamLighter service which integrates into Flash video players. StreamLighter tracks viewing habits as well as video interactions and demographics.
If you’re looking for some new creative ideas on buzz marketing with online video, check out the Internet Archive, a virtual digital library of public domain (i.e., free) video content. While its primarily used for research and educational purposes, some companies are drawing from its inventory to create new movie clips for entertainment pieces associated with their own brand.
As investment in video-based content and advertising grows, measurement of that video content requires better measurement distinctions than what traditional web ‘page view’ analytics programs can provide. We recently interviewed Eric Peterson of Web Analytics Demystified about his white paper, Measuring Multimedia Content in a Web 2.0 World – to talk about his proposed guidelines for websites to effectively track their investment in video-based content.
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The maker of Flip Video, the best-selling family of affordable and simple-to-use digital camcorders today introduced its latest breakthrough product: the Flip MinoHD. The world’s smallest high definition camcorder at just over three oz., this remarkably slim camcorder makes capturing and sharing HD video easy and affordable. The stylish Flip MinoHD from Pure Digital Technologies, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video and features Flip Video’s new FlipShare software, also announced today. This advanced on-board software platform allows consumers to plug the camcorder’s signature flip-out USB arm into any computer for easy drag-and-drop video organizing, editing and sharing on YouTube, MySpace, AOL Video or via email.
Do you need to publish, syndicate, archive, monitor, and monetize large amounts of Internet video content? Do you also need it to come with in its own easy-to-navigate interface, and have it integrate with your existing programs on your website? Most likely you will need a turnkey solution from technology provider with a professional online video platform.
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Funny, just yesterday a friend and I were discussing how we felt that Sorenson had “missed the boat” so to speak in terms of offering a more simplified software solution for encoding web specifically for the web. And last night, I found the following announcement on the Sorenson Media Blog
“Sorenson knows high quality online video and is excited to announce the release of Squeeze 5 MP4! Ok, Ok -enough already! The masses have spoken and Sorenson Media has listened. Every week for the last 6 months or so, we have conducted a 30 minute product webinar to highlight the functionality of Squeeze 5. At the end of the webinar,we spend 5 to 10 minutes answering questions and one that I’ve been asked many times is ‘Our company just needs to encode content for YouTube upload – how can we do this without it looking like garbage?’” – Kirk Punches, Director of Sales
TubeMogul, the Web’s most popular syndication and tracking service for online video, announced the acquisition of video metrics firm Illumenix today.
Some online vendors have promoted to their customers video search engine optimization solutions, simply by allowing them to assemble stock footage from their digital media library – and with no unique video content produced at all.
