According to Michael Arrington, Tagworld is to launch a video service tomorrow. What caught my eye was:

Alternatively, videos from YouTube and other video sharing sites can be “bookmarked” directly into the My Videos area, and/or directly into the user’s TagWorld page for streaming to visitors.

That is something that I have surprisingly not seen before, and I think is a great feature. Currently, Tagworld, is a social bloggin, tagging, photo, and storage site. They have also introduced just recently a music service which looks quite good, but I haven’t had time to play with.
We’ll see what the morning brings.

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Yes, it is finally here. Take a look at the new Adobe After Effects® 7.0 Professional, Premiere® Pro 2.0, Audition® 2.0, and Encore® DVD 2.0. The seamlessness workflow they advertise is simply amazing. Check out the SWF “See it in Action” videos on each page.
Unfortunately, I fail to catch in what way the recently aqcuired Macromedia products intergrade. We may have to wait for the next release to see them merge.

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Now that Adobe and Macromedia have finally merged, we are going to be seeing the fruits of this mighty union. Labnol.blogspot provides screenshots of the new Premiere Pro 2, Encore DVD 2 (the article missguidingly states After Effects 7), Audition 2, part of the Creative Suite Productions Studio that Adobe is expected to annouce on January 17. Premiere will now feature DVD authoring straight from the timeline, and can embed videos into PDFs.
Being a fan of Macromedia products, I hope none of them get scrapped by Adobe (except for Freehand).

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Veoh has announced a Skate Video contest, whose winner will pocket $5,000. What you must do:

- Download and install the Veoh software (its free)
- Register and sign in- Check out the Skateboard.com channel for access to hundreds of videos on all things skateboarding- When you are ready, publish your video, tell your fans and if your work is the most popular skate video by April 30, 2006 you can win $5,000
> Official Rules.

Veoh is a video sharing client that functions more like a TV then community video sharing site. Uploading you videos is easy, and doesn’t require you to have Veoh running all the time (although a little Veoh service will run silently in the background as a system process for some reason, even if you ar’t using the app… so you can’ abort it).

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[Blogsome deleted my previous post… looks like it’s not fully compatible with FireFox 1.5]

Google Video store is now officially live (as of last night.
Read Solution Watch’s in-depth (as always) review. For current video providers, check out the Google Blog.

Frankly, it’s rather an anti-climax, considering the amount of hype it’s been getting lately. Soundly, Google has always been simplicity itself, but looking over Google Video, you feel they could have jazzed it up a bit on the interface. The whole thing looks a bit disspointing. However, it does look very easy to buy you video (haven’t tried it though)
Also, there is talk of little cross-platform compatibility, only working right now for Win2000/XP. What’s up with that Google?

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Doom9 has released a detailed codec comparison review for ‘05. Check it out here.

The conclusion?

Best quality per fps

Even with a dual core machine, you can see by the FPS numbers on page one that while there are fast codecs, there are those that could use a good kick in the behind to get moving.

With its 100% lead over the winner in the ASP group, the award still goes to NeroDigital ASP. Both ASP finalists also deliver a good performance in this category, and the Ateme encoder does best when it comes to AVC encoders.

(via Digg)

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Yesterday I was informed about the launch of Boltfolio, a new addition to online video sharing. However, Boltfolio is not limited to video, supporting images, audio, and blogs as well. A multimedia sharing community portal created by Bolt targeted mainly at young people.
This is the first video site I have come across that actually feels like Flickr. It features the same easy system of tagging, commenting, and editing content info. It’s even got a monthly upload limit (100MB).

At the moment, the video is kept in whatever format you upload it in. Flash recoding should launch sometime this week.

A great feature is their support for real-time capture of video
and audio (via webcam and/or computer mic). They should also add a simple editor feature (like most digital cameras now have) to cut out bits because unedited videos can become long… and boring.

Unfortunately, when posting the video to your blog, you only get a thumbnail thing (like below) that links to the video’s page at Boltfolio.

Video: My House by MetalGuru

However, it is a great addition to the video sharing market. (link to my list of video sharing services)

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For what it’s worth, I thought I’d blog this article (again via Digg). Downside is the requirement of one of their Radeon cards.

Summary:

Avivo XCode: Top-secret power tool for ATI’s Radeon X1000 GPUs
CHIP Online had the opportunity to test a beta version of ATI’s still secret „Avivo XCode“ encoding tool. It uses the power of the GPU to reduce video encoding time –into virtually any format – drastically. Our results show: The new ATI solution easily does it 5 times faster than even the fastest CPUs available today!

So I come across this article entitled Top Four Non-Linear Editors via Digg.com (didn’t get my Digg), and I must say that I’m dissapointed with reviews nowadays, especially ones done by those considering themselves “authorities” on this subject. Why? Because they always compare the same old video editors that hold the top posistions in the market. Many great editors that don’t have privelege yet are not even mentioned. I’ve read to many like this.
And second, the title is a bit silly… I mean, are there really any Linear video editors nowadays (Ok, so the news still uses non-linear system. But are they available to the consumer?) The whole idea of the modern computer is to remove the linear bit. So all video editors on the market today are NLEs (show me one that isn’t). You would look silly to not work with NLEs as the work would be tremendous.

The video editor they have left out, that is my personal favorite and the one I use, is the underpriced, underrated Movie Edit Pro from Magix. Don’t be fooled by the dorky name or the price tag. Take my word for it.

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Here are 2 additions to the already healthy list of free video sharing websites.

*FreeVideoBlog - Not a big community or as flexible as YouTube and Sharkle but allows you to embed videos into your site (not sure what the limit is) and the flash quality looks pretty good (although I’ve seen some WMV files there too.

* StreetFire - Identical interface (except for color scheme) to the one above, so I guess has the same features. Don’t know the limitations for this one either.

Didn’t get much look at them but thought I’d post them anyhow.

* It is run on a service provided by Vidiac, who’s other partner sites can be found here.

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