A must-see American TV archive

The Archive is available at : Google Video Search

I came to know about this from Google News Blog (http://googleblog.blogspot.com):

One of the things that absolutely blew me away when I came on board last year as chairman of the Television Academy Foundation was the Archive of American Television, which is an unequaled collection of videotaped interviews with TV legends.

Steve Mosko, President of Sony Pictures Television

Source (full article): Google Blog

Tips for shooting better online video

Online Journalism Review is offering web video shooting tips which is a great help for those who want to create videos for web, Check it out :

http://www.ojr.org/ojr/wiki/video/


About OJR.org
Welcome to ojr.org, the Online Journalism Review, a Web-based journal produced at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

To know more about them, visit : http://www.ojr.org/ojr/about_ojr/

Full Length Movie Online - ' Night of the Living Dead '

On2 Technologies is offering full Length 'Night of the Living Dead' movie online at : http://www.on2.com/video_samples/flix-video-samples/notld/

Flash player 8 is required to view the movie, get it here : Download Flash Player

Living.com - The Video Magazine

http://www.living.com/

Check out the above mentioned wonderful Online Video Magazine. Flash Video Technology is used for creating the final videos.

Biggest Online movie Release : ' Star Wreck '

Picture: The bluescreen studio/post-production facilities during filming.



The movie ' Star Wreck ' was made by 5 unemployed students and It was the first full (45 min.) length special effect movie which was distributed online for free in the year 1997.



To know more, visit : http://www.starwreck.com/

Host your movies in these websites

There are few websites which host your films/videos online free of cost. If your film is good, you can have a wider audience. You get instant rating of your work which attracts studios, TV networks etc. and they hunt for talents in these websites. So, you have a great opportunity to promote your work for free & enter in the film/TV industry but your work must be outstanding for that as the competition is fierce.

To know more, visit :

www.ifilm.com

www.atomfilms.com

Web Video Delivery Options

The following are the 2 main web video delivery options :

Streaming Video : Streaming media is live and/or archived audio or video content, delivered in almost real-time to an end user's computer via the Internet. It's also called video-on-demand. For large files, streaming is preferable to downloading because you do not have to wait for the file to download before viewing it. Downloading a video file can greatly increase the amount of time it takes to view a presentation. In addition, many computers do not have the storage capacity to store a long presentation. Streamed presentations are experienced as they are downloaded, and generally not stored on the clients system. Viewers do not need to wait for the entire file to download to experience it. Further, it allows the consumer to jump forward or backward to the section of the content of interest.

Progressive Video : Progressive downloads are files that are downloaded to the viewers computer. The files do not have to be completely downloaded before viewing begins (some media players have a "quickstart" feature) but the final result is that a copy of the movie exists on the viewers computer. For longer (larger) movies and smaller bandwidth versions or users, this may not be desirable. Determine your audience and their method of Internet connectivity when planning your video.