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 [...]

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 [...]

Moviestorm is a new free application, available for Windows or Mac, designed for creating machinima-style animated movies and distributing them on social networking sites.
Moviestorm is designed to take users through the entire movie-making process, from set-building, character creation and script-writing to titles, credits and editing in under fifteen minutes, ending up with a digital animated [...]

ooVoo has announced the launch of a Mac version of its free video chat client & recorder.
With the new Mac version, users will be able to connect face-to-face with up to six people at once, regardless of whether they on Mac or PC. ooVoo Mac’s features include the ability to send and receive video messages, [...]

by James Lewin

Apple today released Final Cut Express 4, a update to its popular video editing software, with a new price of $199. With the reduced price, this looks to be the option for video podcasters and vloggers that found iMovie 8 to be incomplete and dumbed down.
Final Cut Express 4 adds:

support for the latest [...]

Movavi today announced that it had added new tools to Movavi Online, a web-based service that lets users download and convert video from one format to another for use with iPods, mobile phones and other devices.
Where the first version of Movavi Online gave users the ability to upload video stored on a PC, the service [...]

Apple introduced a completely rewritten iMovie in the iLife ‘08 suite earlier this week. But, while the new iMovie streamlines production of simple videos, some users are also finding that Apple dropped their favorite features from iMovie HD, the previous version.
iMovie ‘08 eliminates timeline-style editing, which can make it more difficult to do things like [...]

NAB: Apple unveiled Final Cut Studio 2, a video editing suite which features:

Final Cut Pro 6, which introduces Apple’s ProRes 422 format for uncompressed HD quality at SD file sizes and support for mixed video formats and frame rates in a single Timeline;
Motion 3 featuring an intuitive 3D environment, paint and new behaviors;
Soundtrack Pro 2 [...]