After the video itself, the video thumbnail may be the most important element of a video. Combine this with a video title that is what the viewer is looking for, and you have helped your video win a lot more viewers. The thumbnail-title combination is a powerful click...
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Gimbal for DSLRs, Smart phones, GoPros and more
Very Cool Gimbal for DSLRs, Smart phones, GoPros and more How about a shoulder mounted brushless gimbal for smaller cameras? The Shape company has released a series of gimbals called iSee. These are two-axis brushless gimbals for a variety of cameras. Shape is not the...
Happy Birthday to the Man Who Invented Television
Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. Today he would have been 109 years old. To read about the man who invented television and how he did it, click here.
Adobe To Offer New Tools To Make Shoppable Video
This will allow users to click on the products shown in videos and purchase from any device. Marketers can make instant sales. As Adobe says "Creating interactive video is typically expensive and difficult to scale. . . Since it is built on a non-standard player it is...
New Virtual Reality Movie By Oculus
While VR technology is in its infancy, Oculus Story Studio pushes new frontiers with its latest movie called Henry. This ten-minute film is designed to showcase the VR platform. Oculus VT offers the Rift, a virtual reality head-mounted display which was originally...
Interactive Video Without Flash
For the longest time, Adobe's Flash was the go-to program for interactive video. It is still used by many large sites, but Flash is clearly on its way out for reasons we've explored previously. See The End of Flash: Facebook and Firefox Attack Flash. YouTube has begun...
Customize Your Video Player With Video.js
Flash is not supported in iOS or in Android devices out of the box. Google Chrome does not support it at all. While Flash can still be installed on Android devices, there are no security updates, bug fixes, or official Adobe support. So when Adobe dropped mobile...
The End of Flash: Facebook and Firefox Attack Flash
Facebook calls for a termination date for Flash. Mozilla disables current version of the plug in in Firefox. Google's says future version of Chrome will "intelligently pause" Flash content that isn't part of the website's content. It's not dead yet, but the...
Wanted: Filmmakers To Test Google’s GoPro VR Camera Rig
GoPro and Google have joined forces to create a Virtual Reality camera rig with 16 GoPro HERO4 cameras. It's called Jump. It can transform 16 pieces of video into one stereoscopic 360 degree VR video. The 360 degree camera array allows all 16 cameras to act as one....
NASA 4K Video from the International Space Station.
Change the settings on your player to 2160p (4K) Need some great background for a title sequence or other use? NASA footage is in the public domain because like all government video, this NASA 4K video was produced with U.S. taxpayer dollars. The footage is easily...





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