Recently Google announced a new feature to their popular Gmail service; free voice and video chat. With this feature, Gmail users can now do real-time, one-on-one video chats with other Gmail users. It’s all 100% browser based…you do it all through your Gmail account. You just select one of your contacts, invite them to video [...]
From time to time when working with video, you’ll find yourself needing (or wanting) to use a still photo from within the video footage. Maybe you want to use the photo as a thumbnail image on your web page. Maybe you want to use it in an email. Or maybe there’s just a great shot [...]
When most people are starting out with video editing software, just learning the in’s and out’s, they aren’t comfortable working with live video footage. And a great way to ease the learning curve with video editing software, is to first work with still images (photos). You can actually create very powerful videos using nothing but [...]
I’m a bit of a quality freak. I’m constantly testing tools side by side, trying to determine what produces the highest quality web video (as in, what gives you the best looking video on the web, with the lowest investment of time and money). At the beginning of August 2008, a new product called DV [...]
Creating quality green screen effects with digital video is not an easy task. Digital video is comprised of pixels, which cause artifacts or “stair steps” around people or objects used in green screen video. Many video editing applications claim to provide near-perfect green screen effects with just a click of the mouse. In reality, achieving [...]
