Inside Online Video reports: With the explosion of HD online video, YouTube is… raising (its) maximum file size (from 100 mb) to one gigabyte with (its) new multi-video uploader. Download the software here so you can upload multiple videos here.
P.S. This is PC only. Jerks.
TubeMogul now facilitates simple uploading to multiple videos sites that include such recent additions as StupidVideo and Crackle. This image shows the collection of sites that now accept videos via TubeMogul.
There are other sites through which you can upload multiple videos, but TubeMogul saves your username and passwords, and tracks metrics. The site apparently is going to also track other performance metrics, which will allow creators to monitor performance and advertisers to provide simple reports for their clients.
I’m not getting kickbacks from TubeMogul to mention them, but I’ve covered the site several times because I can’t believe other creators aren’t using the free tool. It’s saved me time, and kept me uploading to sites that I otherwise might forget or skip because of the painful act of repetitive uploading. I wouldn’t be surprised if second-tier sites start paying TubeMogul just to gain access to its users video content. Certainly I’d prefer to see TubeMogul’s revenue come from the hosting sites instead of us video creators.
This blog has been too consumed with YouTube and Nalts lately, and I want to get back to WillVideoForFood’s roots. Finding ways to improve the production of online video, marketing via online video, and learning tips to promote amateur and promotional content.
Yesterday I spoke with Paul Kontonis of For Your Imagination. I thought I was an expert in online-video marketing, but I was humbled by Paul’s knowledge of how to get views beyond YouTube. “For Your Imagination” produces a series of fairly high-quality serialized content (some of which has developed into television series). So it doesn’t all apply to us amateurs. But he’s partnered with sites like blip.tv and identified ways to distribute via iTunes and other outlets and still retain advertising revenue. I’m planning on doing a more indepth interview with him soon.
Paul has business partners and funding, and employees a team of production people as well as viral junkees (some freelance) that help promote and distribute the programs they produce. If there’s another business model like it, I haven’t seen it.
Check out this show to learn production while getting bits of humor. It’s “The Shirtless Apprentice.” The poor guy wears a lav stuck to his chest with gaffer tape, and there’s some comedy mixed with solid video-production tips. Personally, I’d love even more humor, but it certainly beats the majority of talking heads out there. I’m adding it to my RSS, and there are already more than 2-dozen episodes on these important topics:
I get bags of e-mail each week about how to compress videos for online use. Since I use iMovie, I simply select “Share: CD-ROM” and transform a potentially 30 GB iMovie file into a small (10-20) MB .mov file that seems to upload well. (UPDATE: Don’t do this. Do this to get the best compression]. Butterfly.
I’d appreciate if you PC users could identify your software package (Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, etc.) and what compression you select to export your video for use online. I simply don’t know those packages.
I’m going to now lay out “Nalts Guide for Good Compression” based on a lot of online research (I’ve listed the best sources listed below).
Additional sources
Note: I plan on revisiting this post based on reader feedback. My list will get longer, and I’d like to broaden the list of good, comprehensive and simple sources (which are hard to find).
Many years ago, I said the word “Google” to my wife. I said, “remember that name because it’s going to be big.” I’m having the same feeling about Joost.
I’ve been meaning to post on Joost since I read this article about the company in Wired magazine. The foudners created Kazaa and Skype, and announced Joost earlier this year. I’ve always believed in the power of “serial entrepreneurs,” and these guys are well connected and financed. They’re now up to 150 people and in 5 countres.
The idea is somewhat ground breaking… very much in the spirit of WillVideoforFood’s number one prediction for 2007.
Here’s a teaser from the Wired piece.
You can check out Joost at its website, or visit the Joost blog.
Give it a test ride and comment if you’d like. And if you talk to Friis or Zennstrom, let them know that Nalts will pimp for equity.
Mike Posehn is a time-lapse photographer and creator of the GBTimeLapse software that helps turn digital photos into time-lapse videos. In his post on GraniteBaySoftware’s blog, he compares various video sites.
His goals are similar to many of ours:
1) Good video quality, easy and fast uploading and an attractive and flexible video player.
2) To drive traffic to my site I need a site with a big audience.
3) For extra revenue I need a site with an ad revenue sharing business model.
He reviews Brightcove, YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Google Video and VideoEgg… as well as two I didn’t know. Zudeo and Stage6.
My sister sent me this elevator photo this morning and titled the e-mail “Nerds.” It’s the crowd going to Macworld. She works for “big media” and they’re interviewing Jobs today. But she doesn’t deserve to. It would be like her watching me interview (insert name of famous fashion designer).
So have you been reading the blow-by-blow on Macworld? If not, get off this blog immediately and see Engadget! They’ve got details and photo of the new iPhone. $500with a plan, and available in June but only through Cingular. Yes you can watch videos on it, as well as surf Google Earth and anything else you can imagine.
It’s a Phone
It’s a Lil’ Television
My favorite part of the stream-of-consciousness post is when Endgadget said, of Cingular CEO Stan Sigman. “Man this guy is a total snoozer.”
Anyway check out that new iPhone and feel free to send it to me as a Fathers’ Day gift.
Woah. This Wall Street Journal (a print newspaper based in New York City) is coming dangerously close to my “beat” today. They’re clearly running online video stories to see if they can steal from the rapidly growing readership of “Will Video for Food.”
I may not be as classy, accurate, easy-to-read or comprehensive. But I’m free’er. And no black stains on your fingers when you’re done with me.
Here are some stories from today’s Journal alone. Can you tell that some editor threw a sugar-induced tantrum in late December and told everyone he needed more “new media” stories in January?
“People I don’t care what’s happening at GM or Baghdad,” he screamed with sweat dripping from his nostrils. “I want more news about those talkies kids are e-mailing to the world wide web.”
B4: “MySpace Filmmakers to Get Shot at an Emmy” by Emily Steel. “Anyone with an Internet connection,” leads Steel. “Can have a shot at the gold-plated statuette.” I’ll leave it at that.Hey, Scott. I resent that. I am responsible for some of that YouTube garbage.
I’ve been long begging for a technology that allows amatuer videographers to populate multiple video sites with ease. You may like the popularity of YouTube and the money from Revver, blip.tv and Metacafe. But you can’t afford to miss sites like AOL Uncut, Yahoo or Google Video since they do deliver volume. I think I speak for most video makers that my LEAST favorite part of video is manually submitting it on sites. And I invariably forget one or two.
A number have people have confided in me certain new businesses that address that unmet need — I will not reveal specifics of these in respect to their need for secrecy. As you can guess, some go after subscriptions, others charge a flat fee, and others are targeting high-end publishers to charge a premium.
Marquisdejolie recently shared that Veoh uploaders can automatically populate their YouTube, MySpace and Google accounts with their videos. That’s brilliant. Something I’ve urged Revver to do for months.
This is how I see this market playing out:
I don’t track technology stocks well, and I certainly don’t understand the nuances of video compression. But my friend Jim Walker (www.mindpalace.com) is the one that told me to buy Cisco stock in 1996. I didn’t.
Now he’s hot on ON2. Here’s a recent press release the company issued. According to the release, ON2 is “addressing the growing market of video across different bandwidth-constrained networks and mass-market devices, for fixed and mobile video.”
I don’t understand it either, and since I’m $30K in debt I won’t be investing. But here’s what interested me about Walker’s post on a Yahoo message board (which is excerpted in the “more” section below).