Cinegenix has released FiLMiC Pro (App Store link), a dedicated video camera app that lets you shoot better video on your iPhone by ’asserting as much manual control over camera functions as possible.’ It offers three focus/exposure systems: Double Reticle Mode: two separate adjustable reticles for spot sampling focus and exposure. Single Reticle Mode: a center fixed [...]

Podcast production and hosting company RawVoice has introduced a new media-on-demand service at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters [NAB] Show in Las Vegas April 9-14. Dubbed “Cue Too,” the media-on-demand (MOD/VOD) service will allow content creators, independent film artists, bands, educators and all others who create content to sell their content online and through [...]

YouTube has announced a new live streaming video service, YouTube Live, which they plan to make available to ‘Partners’: Today we’re announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page, [...]

Vimeo has made an interesting move – releasing a free iPhone app, designed to let you upload and manage your videos, right from your phone. And they’ve got big plans for mobile video apps – including a version for the iPad and Android devices. Here are the details. 

Rain Computers has released Venturi, a high performance computer designed for media editng and production. Performance features include: a quad-core or optional 6-core Intel Xeon processor DDR3 triple channel memory a Serial ATA drives capable of streaming up to 6 gigabits per second. Window 7 Pro 64-bit, tuned by Rain for peformance. Venturi is available [...]

Electronica artist Moby has announced more free music at mobygratis.com – his free music site for indie, student & non-profit film-makers: today we put up my last album, ‘wait for me’ (which features prominently in academy award nominated ‘waste land’, as well as paul haggis’ last movie ‘the next 3 days’) on mobygratis. so if you’re [...]

Science fiction author Bruce Sterling, speaking at the Vimeo Festival & Awards, offers his take on the future of video and on ‘vernacular video’. Along the way, Sterling hits on the loss of prime time and mass audiences.

Did Apple TV just stop being Steve Jobs’ ‘hobby’ and move on to being a major new business for Apple? Apple has announced that it expects sales of its new Apple TV to top one million units later this week. Not that Apple has sold a million unts – but that it expects to reach [...]

Vimeo has introduced a new section on their site, designed to help you make better Internet video, Vimeo Video School: We realized that one of the best ways we could nurture the incredible range of creativity on the site would be to build a system that easily allows members of all skill levels to learn more [...]

David Lynch wants you to direct his music video. Lynch – best know for directing cult films like Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and the TV series Twin Peaks, has released an electronica single, Good Day Today / I Know, and launched a music video competition to promote the track. There will be 10 finalists chosen [...]