Videomaker Presents

In our Video Bits & Bytes segment, Mark tells us about the demise of a popular blogging site, one we're sorry to see go... And he also has news on several new camcorders that have recently passed the doors of Videomaker Central. Derek has some Video Sharing news on fora.tv, an online discussion on worldwide political, social and cultural issues ... and are you getting money back from your federal income tax? Derek found a site where you can win prize money by uploading a video on what you plan to do with your refund.

1 year of Videomaker Presents

In our Video Bits & Bytes segment, Mark has Video Industry News from across the water: JVC announces 40 GB Everio camcorders are being release in Japan, will we see this cams in the states? watch the show! In our Video Sharing segment, Derek tells us about Livevideo, a youtube-like site that has a good amount of "channels" with entertaining produced Internet TV shows. Check out Soup of the Day. He also spent a day in San Francisco visiting Meet-Up 2.0.

In our Video Bits & Bytes segment, Mark has some Video Industry News for editing storage. Seagate announces the World's fastest drives that runs at 15-thousand rpms, which is good news for video editors. In Derek's video sharing news, he tells us about Stockstock, joost [juiced], HDfest and Grindhouse. Stockstock is a film fest using stock footage and remixing, joost is a new venture from the same team that brought us skype. HDfest is a traveling HD video festival that will be in NYC the same weekend that Videomaker is having its New York Summit. The Grindhouse trailer contest at hdforindies.com gives video producers the chance to make a trailer for the upcoming Tarantino-Rodriguez film coming out this summer.

In our Video Bits & Bytes segment, Mark and John have just returned from CES and have some video news on that... while Charlie and Derek discuss the annual Mac-World convention.

In our Video Bits & Bytes segment, Mark talks about Adobe's new Production Suite for Intel Macs, Divergent Media's ScopeBox and a new launch by Yahoo: You Witness News Beta service, plus LG plans a dual Blu-ray/HD-DVD compatible HDTV display. Derek discusses Cyn In, a Software as a service provider of data and content management...Viddler.com, a video sharing site that lets you comments context and tag videos on their time line, and, spinXpress 2, a beta offering that allows you to share secure media on your computer.

Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.3 update in our News & Technology segment. This is a maintainence update that includes the addition of batch capture & error log. In our VIDEO SHARING NEWS we tell you about WorkBook Project: a social network built around the video community, and Mashable has a the best of 2006 and 2007 predictions. Also in our video sharing news: Youtube has begun to share some of the direction with the users With the introduction of "Test Tube". The first offering is Streams. This brings together video sharing and instant messaging.

In our News & Technology segment, Blackmagic ships HDMI Intensity; Mark tells you about that along with a Panasonic announcement of a universal format live switcher and Red Giant releases Colorista. Derek gives details on the BBC's partnering with Zudeo, putting British TV on the Internet in his Video Sharing news.

In our News & Technology segment, Mark has news from Cyberlink, HP, NewTek & Sony and Derek has some news on a few video sharing sites to watch including Stumbleupon.com and vodpod.com, plus free internet phone calling through Google.

In our News & Technology segment, Derek has some exciting news in the video-sharing world. Samsung has developed a phone that delivers Divix media. A new site we're watching closely is Zudeo which supplies High Def film download with a bit torrent twist. Mark tells us about two new AVCHD camcorders form Panasonic... and the latest release of DVD-it Pro HD by Roxio. They also talk about some brick & mortar retail stores working to make your DVD transfers even easier... and some interesting news from MacroSystem's Casablanca.

In our News & Technology segment, Derek and Mark tell you about Hitachi's newest DVD/Hard Drive Camcorder and some great news on DVD and CD prices slashing by Primera. We are also adding a daily up-to-the-minute news updates on our blogs, and they tell you how to find us.

In our News & Technology segment, Derek and Mark look at a couple of "Off Shore Sightings" from Japan... JVC has a new Everio prototype while Panasonic is creating an A-V-C-H-D camcorder... Why are there no HD disc recorders in the U-S yet? Public Access in Hawaii on TV through the Internet.

In our News & Technology segment with Mark and Derek, JVC's announces a new pro HD camcorder, AJA introduces a miniature converter for H-D-M-I as well as news from Sorenson, Bella, Final Draft and Alienware.

In our News & Technology segment with Mark and Derek, It's the "Battle of the Titans" over video-sharing. Telecom networks, Verison and Comcast, are getting into the video sharing business. Version is in talks with YouTube, while Comcast is hoping its launch of Ziddio.com will cut into the massive YouTube audience. YouTube was recently purchased by Google and we talk some more on what that means to the independent producer. We also provide details about a contest in which you can produce a music video for the band "Moby".

In our News & Technology segment , Mark and Derek discuss two powerful video editing computers: Gateway's Beefy F-X-530 workstation and Alienware's latest laptop with a 400-GB Hard Drive Capacity....They'll tell you how to enter Apple's Insomnia 24-Hour Film, aptly named because you'll be up all night working on it!