Video Software

Plugin Adds Full Video Capabilities To WordPress

Nov 1st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Software

Kaltura’s All in One Video Pack plugin for WordPress gives you the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content and create video playlists, all at no cost.
Features:

Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to [...]



YouTube Updates Video Uploader, Increases Size Limit To 1GB

Sep 29th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Video, Video Software

YouTube has announced an updated video uploader and bumped up the maximum file size for uploads.
A random sample of YouTube users have already been using the beta version.
YouTube is opening up the streamlined uploader to everyone; just login to your YouTube account and click this link to opt in.
The new video upload tool includes these [...]



YouTube Adds Video Captions

Aug 28th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Streaming Video, Video, Video Software

YouTube has announced a new feature - video captioning - that lets you add captions to give viewers a deeper understanding of your videos. Captions can help people who would not otherwise understand the audio track to follow along, especially those who speak other languages or who are deaf and hard of hearing.
An example, an episode [...]



This Computer Animation Technology Will Amaze You

Aug 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video, Video Software

We’ve highlighted several amazing new video software apps in the last few days - but the demo video above, from Image Metrics, is jaw-dropping.
It features a Emily - a computer graphic illustration produced using a new modeling technology that enables the minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated. For the first [...]



More Cool Video Technology: Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics

Aug 19th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Internet TV, Video, Video Software

This demo video from Microsoft demonstrates a new technology, Microsoft Unwrap Mosaics, that can make it easy to do video special effects editing:
The representation has some of the power of a full reconstruction of 3D surface models from video, but is designed to be easy to recover from a priori unseen and uncalibrated footage. By [...]



Amazing Video Technology Makes Lousy Home Videos Look Awesome

Aug 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Video, Video Software

Researchers at the Graphics and Imaging Laboratory at the University of Washington have created amazing new software technology for automatically enhancing videos of a static scene using photographs of the same scene.
According to the researchers:
Our system can transfer photographic qualities such as high resolution, high dynamic range and better lighting from the photographs to the [...]