How can you choose 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?

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.

Learn:

• 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
• Video Formatting: Wrapping It Up
• Additional Resources

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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.

Imagine an all in one network that will beam Sony content to it’s products for it users to access at anytime, in any place. Well, according to Sony’s chief executive, Howard Stringer this may be a possibility. Thursday it was announced that Sony will be working towards building it’s Sony Online Service which will provide users content such as games, movies, music and television content beamed directly to their Walkmans, TVs and Playstations.

Stringer said, “We have a supreme advantage once we get software right, because the quality of our hardware is exceptional, I think our hardware is more durable than Apple. You don’t want something that breaks down every 10 minutes.” According to multiple experts, Sony has always had this strategy in mind but has never been quite ready to execute it properly.

Sony has been hurting to return to the top spot in the electronics realm for much of the last few years and Stringer believes this service will bring them onto the forefront yet again. Of the most notable features, one of which will let the gaming universe download music, e-books, and software applications to the already impressive landscape of content provided such as games, TV shows and movies.

The concept for a new beginning to creating a successful new venture was eliminated earlier this year when Sony dropped plans to continue on with EyeVio, a video-sharing site that would link directly to Sony gadgets. Will this new Sony Network be able to take over the landscape? Well, only time will tell.

Yup, that’s right. It’s time for another list! You guys asked for one… oh wait you didn’t?

huh, well here it is anyway:

The Top 10 B-Movies of All Time

(Now before I begin this one let me explain why I enjoy b-movies, not all of them are “bad” and not all of them are “bad without knowing.” A lot of the time, these movies show true effort within a given budget. Sometimes it’s the process of working within that budget that creates the “bad” in the movie. So for me, I enjoy the effort put into these movies to see just how well the director utilized the means that was given to them. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve often been asked what my opinion is on the best material to look at critically when learning about video. So I thought that I’d pose the question to all of you out there & see what you guys think? For myself, the best possible video to learn from are commercials. They are direct, tell the story in a very short amount of time and are the best example of the “shoot to edit” technique. Of course thats just my opinion, but commercials are out there to capture every type of audience. So there are many different types of ads that are done in so many different ways that it’s impossible not to find the answers to at least some of your video questions by watching them critically.  What do you guys think? What has helped you learn the most about video?