So you’ve just finished completing the world’s next blockbuster and you want to get your baby on the web fast. The most important preparation is choosing how to format it for the web. Our newest free report explains video formats for the beginning to intermediate user — what the different video formats are and which are the best video formats for web distribution. You’ll learn the strengths and weaknesses of MOVs, AVIs, FLVs, WMVs, and MP4s, so you can make an informed choice when you decide how the online world will see your movie.
Whether it’s a question of finding the best compression for YouTube or choosing a format that allows your users to interact with the video, there is a video format out there for your exact purposes. Choosing the best video format for web distribution is absolutely vital for getting people to watch your videos on YouTube, Vimeo or other video sharing websites. We asked filmmaker/videographer Chelsey Grasso to decipher the mysteries of getting the best compression for YouTube and the web. Download this all new free report to have all the different video formats explained in plain English. You’ll never have to worry about your format choices adversely affecting your finished productions again.
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Sharing Your Video Masterpiece with the World
Why Video Formats Are Important
Getting Down to Business: The Types of Video Formats
Common Mistakes in Choosing a Video Format
Tips for Selecting the Best Video Format in Any Situation
Vimeo is now offering Creative Commons licensing options for its members. Creative Commons licensing helps artists to define the specific usage rights that allow others to use, perform, distribute, and make derivative works from their original works. With an easy selection of one of six free Creative Commons licenses, artists can retain their copyright while choosing to allow others to use their work given proper credit and maintenance of simple conditions specified in the Creative Commons agreement.
Now people looking for high quality videos that they can legally share, use, adapt, and remix can find them on Vimeo, where an ever-evolving collection of work is available for use under Creative Commons’ permissive copyright licenses.
Qlipso, a social site that enables users to share Flash-based content, has recently purchased Veoh, one of the internet’s top video sharing sites.
Veoh, launched in 2005 hoping to compete with YouTube. However, after a long legal battle with Universal Music Group (UMG) over alleged copyright infringement, and other financial problems, Veoh announced earlier this year that they would be filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Yesterday, Veoh’s founder and CEO Dmitry Shapiro stated in his blog, “Veoh in fact did not file for bankruptcy and was sold to Qlipso.”
Qlipso is a web-based service that provides a platform for sharing and viewing online video, games, slide shows and music while allowing users to simultaneously interact with friends and family through video, voice and text chat.
“This chapter of our lives has come to an end,” said Shapiro, “but a bright new chapter will soon begin, and I assure all of you reading this, that we have lots of important work ahead of us. Stay tuned, you will hear from us again!”
Veoh users can expect to see more social features added to veoh.com in the coming months.
Vimeo launched its new Advanced Statistics feature today, Plus Stats, which provides Vimeo Plus members with detailed information on the playback of their videos. Plus members can now see video analytics broken down by date range, geography, and embed location.
“Better analytics has been one of the most requested features of all time,” said Andrew Pile, Vice President of Product and Development. “We wanted to give our Plus members detailed insight in a clean, easy-to-use format.”
The new statistics feature includes a variety of new tools including granular visualizations of video loads, plays (by geographic location and website), playback quality (HD vs SD), video finishes, likes, comments, and downloads. Any data point can be graphed over any timeframe on individual videos, or across all of a users’ uploads. It also includes new social tools like biggest fans, commenters and running “Top Performer” charts.
As video makers, the use of stock footage can be seen as a more cost effective way to get a scene, rather than actually going out and having to shoot the needed scene yourself. Not all of us can go film some gritty scenes in Time Square, but we can buy some to use online at various stock images and stock video sites. One of which I thought that you should all check for yourselves, is Shutterstock.com
Not only can you download clips in a variety of formats; (including everything from DVCam to BetacamSP to HDCam) you can also make money on the site by selling stock footage. Shutterstock offers 3 different ways to make money on the site, the first is to sell your stock footage, the second way is to refer stock buyers and the third is to refer other submitters. But don’t take my word for it go check it out for yourself.
hoose the best video format to make sure that people view and spread your work over the Internet? Find out with our new free guide, What’s the best video format for online distribution?
Qlipso, a social site that enables users to share Flash-based content, has recently purchased Veoh, one of the internet’s top video sharing sites.
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