Amazon Web Services have announced the release of Elastic Transcoder (currently in beta right now). The Cloud based service provides on-demand conversion of video formats:
“Amazon Elastic Transcoder manages all aspects of the transcoding process for you transparently and automatically. There’s no need to administer software, scale hardware, tune …
Continue reading »Onlinevideo.net has posted a review of various commercial transcoding and encoding tools. They cover hardware, software and cloud based tools, including the following:
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Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, are running a webinar devoted to Video DAM on 4th April 2012 at 12pm US Central Standard Time (CST). The presentation will be lead by their in-house video expert, Al Falaschi and (wisely on this occasion) it sounds like the Widen …
Continue reading »Onlinevideo.net has a buyer’s guide to Online Video Platforms (OVPs). The distinction between OVPs and DAM systems is a pretty fine one if your candidate DAM is anything but a low-end commodity solution, however, the considerations described in this article are still fairly important for anyone who will deal with …
Continue reading »Israeli vendor, Idomoo launched last week and offers a personalised Video as a Service (VaaS) platform that can be adapted to each individual viewer
“Idomoo automatically generates any number of highly personalized videos. Personal customer data from standard CRM systems or databases is integrated into a pre-produced master video …
Continue reading »OnlineVideo,net features a review of Flash based on-line vide editor, WeVideo.net. Apart from the issues inherent in using Flash (lack of iPhone/iPad support mainly), the review seems broadly favourable:
“We’re in the baby steps phase of the online video editing market. WeVideo has a solid interface and is …
Continue reading »Adobe, owner of both Day Software and Scene 7 DAM/ECM vendors announced yesterday that they had bought up Auditude, developers of a video advertising platform:
“Adobe also plans to integrate Auditude with the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, which consists of integrated analytics and optimization products to collect and unleash …
Continue reading »Edward Smith, writing on the Extensis sponsored “DAM Learning Center” explains some of the basics of video terminology and offers some best practice tips for including it in your DAM. The main advice is:
According to this Digidaily.com article, almost half the agencies and advertisers and agencies in one of their recent surveys are planning to increase their spending on on-line video advertising, with roughly 30% predicting a double digit rise:
“More than half of the more than 100 responding advertisers and agencies …
Continue reading »Strictly one for the techies, but a comprehensive and confidently written article by Jan Ozer on Streamingmedia.com nonetheless. Jan covers the H.264 specification, codec implementations, licensing and quality relative to other competing technologies plus a number of other fundamental topics. This is taken from the adoption and support section and …
Continue reading »OnlineVideo.net has a 6 part article where they evaluate different options for hosting user generated video content. The sites considered are:
“There are two reasons to post videos to a user generated content (UGC) site; first, to reach the constituency of members, …
Continue reading »OnlineVideo.net has compiled an “Ultimate Guide” to HTML5 video with links to FAQs, features, video and news. The features section includes articles about H.264 and WebM, sections on encoders and a variety of other useful stuff. If you need to get to grips with HTML5 for a project (or to …
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