Lightworks – Soon to be Open Source

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get familiar with Lightworks, an Academy and Emmy award winning professional-grade editor with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry. Having cut hundreds of films such as Pulp Fiction, The Departed, Centurion and Shutter Island, it includes a full feature set of editorial tools — from advanced trimming and media management, to stereoscopic support and realtime effects including multiple secondary colour correctors. Lightworks has an advanced effects pipeline, utilizing the power of your GPU. And with support for up to 2K workflows with realtime effects, it is the most advanced editing application available.

Lightworks:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com

Movies which used the software:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com/…

What is incredibox?

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Incredibox

This is a fun site to create your own beatbox music tracks.  The interface is well laid out and makes it simple to create great sounding tracks.

One thing they need is the ability to export or save a track out as MP3.

Link: http://www.incredibox.fr/

YouTube upload limit increases to 15 minutes

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We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.

Link: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/…

Youtube offers online video editing

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With this new editor, you can:

  • Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video
  • Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
  • Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
  • Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click—no upload necessary

I’m sure this is just the tip of the iceberg with Youtube’s new service.

Link: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/…

What Happens to a YouTube Video After 1,000 Uploads?

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Same video uploaded, downloaded and then uploaded again. Repeat 1000x

Upload 1:

Upload 1000:

Here’s what I took away from it: “Yes, I know there is loss with audio and video compression. I didn’t need proof x1000″.

Link: http://mashable.com/2010/06/03/youtube-i-am-sitting/

Determine a song title with Shazam

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Ever hear a song on the radio and want to know its name? With Shazam its as easy as running Shazam and holding your iPhone up to the radio speaker. Shazam analyzes the song playing and returns its title (and other information).

Shazam:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shazam/id284993459

Camtasia Studio 7

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Camtasia Studio has got to be one of the most powerful, and easy to use, screen recorder applications I have come across. Building more dynamic tutorials through the use of a screen recording can be a pain. Camtasia Studio makes the process easy without sacrificing features.

Whats New:

  • Enhanced Callouts
  • Editable Cursor Effects
  • Smarter SmartFocus
  • Library (for effects, callouts, title slides)
  • YourTube Upload
  • Sketch Motion Callouts
  • …plus more

Link:
http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp

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(requires nothing more than giving it a test and leaving a comment on the Event Page)

Fast and efficient media player with SPlayer

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HD

  • ShaderEngineTMimage enhancement engine,reduce screen noise, sharp picture quality rendering
  • LiveColorTMcolor enhancement algorithms, the picture is more colorful colors
  • SmartAmplifyTMIntelligent sound field balance of technology, sound is even more shocking

Low consumption

  • FastMotionTMoptimized to significantly reduce CPU and memory footprint. Optimization for multi-core SSE2 SSE3 MMX GPU etc
  • PowerTravelTMpower-saving mode of travel, reduce energy consumption, increase the cruise time for notebook
  • EyeCareTMtake care your eyes for long time watching, health is the most important

Intelligent

  • Anti-SillyTMSmart, hand-free configuration, hundreds of branch logic automatically selects the best mode based on the hardware configuration.
  • CloudMatchingTMIntelligent Display subtitles technology, foreign language film is no longer a need to find matching subtitles

Delicate beauty

  • After a number of enthusiastic users of professional advice and design, SPlayer interface adhering to simple, stylish, functional integrity without affecting the general use. Buttons novice twist, the cure that is to go

Link:
http://www.splayer.org/index.en.html

Free Online Multimedia Editors

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We tend to rely heavily on our favorite desktop applications like Photoshop, GIMP, Audacity, Adobe Premier and so on when it comes to dealing with multimedia files. What if we are on a public machine that doesn’t have the software we need, or worst, what if these public machines prevent users from installing applications? That is where web applications come in handy. Web applications have gained much attention and popularity over the pass few years. The reasons are simple – ubiquity, convenience and light. As long as you have a web browser that connects to the Internet, you can get your photo, audio or even video edited on the fly. Here’s a list of free web services that allows you to edit multimedia files (photo, audio and video) online.

Link:
http://www.hongkiat.com/…

Quick links to help you backup your DVDs

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RipIt4Me – A Quick Reference Guide:
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/360110

What to do when DVD Decrypter fails:
http://club.myce.com/f62/dvd-decrypter-failing-me-often-now-219859/

Additional DVD Copying Software:
http://www.veign.com/blog/2006/01/some-dvd-copying-software.html

Do you backup your DVDs? What software has worked for you?

Guy Makes Awesome Tunes Using only Windows Sounds

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Someone has too much time on their hands. The result is pretty amazing considering he just used only Windows sounds from XP and 98.

Link:
http://www.spike.com/video/guy-makes-awesome/3290850

What's on TV, online?

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Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily discover what’s available to watch (and what isn’t) online, where to watch it, and what’s worth watching.

Clicker:
http://www.clicker.com/

Another free audio converter

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The Free MP3 WMA Converter from Koyote is capable of converting your entire audio library from one format to another.

Supported Formats:

  • Input formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, Ogg, AAC, APE, Flac, M4A, AC3
  • Output formats: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, APE, FLAC

Link:
http://cybernetnews.com/…

Free Flash music players for your website

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Choose one of our free flash music players for your website and use it to stream music on your web page. Premiumbeat.com offers the easiest way to add music to your website with detailed instructions.

Kinda like Wimpy (which is better) but free.

(in case you want a non-flash method check out this trick to stream an mp3)

Link:
http://www.premiumbeat.com/…

3D Videos appearing on YouTube

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The Video:

You can control the options of the 3D view

Link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-uRTsHC9k

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