What people tend to forget is that you are sending YouTube a master for them to compress; therefore, send the highest quality you can, that fits within their limitations. YouTube.com is well know for being the busiest video-sharing site, but unfortunately, YouTube uses the much older Sorenson Spark codec for their video encoding. This was […]
From Dspace Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) adopts ‘Open Repository’ – the service from BioMed Central, which allows institutes to build, launch, host, and maintain their own repositories. Whilst MSF is well known for its humanitarian medical work, the organisation also produces important research based on its extensive field experience within vulnerable populations. Its studies have […]
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Open Text Corporation: Catholic relief services goes global with Open Text’s market leading digital asset management solution; Artesia DAM solution simplifies workflow process, and brings photos and creative content to catholic relief services. Open Text, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), today announced that Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has successfully implemented Open Text’s […]
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There has been a lot of noise lately from some folks that even the new Avid hardware pricing is too high. As someone who is in this game for the long haul, this really rankles my feathers. Avid has lowered their pricing by around 50 percent, while delivering a product that greatly increases speed and […]
Times are tough for indies right now – I just finished reading an LA Times article – Cloudy skies for Cannes indie market talking about how tough the market is for indie (as in, non-studio produced) content these days. And I think technology is largely to blame. Backing up, here’s the evidence, as stated in […]
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Michele Yamazaki of software reseller Toolfarm interviews Brandon Parvini and David Torno about their work on a music video for the band Flight of the Conchords, New Zealand’s “fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo.” I think the video, for their song Ladies of the World, will part of the second season of their […]
For most people, places and things, Powerset shows a summary of Factz from across Wikipedia. So we conducted a search term where can I get Digital Asset Management, here are the results. Digital asset management Digital asset management systems are computer software and/or hardware systems that aid in the process of digital asset management. … […]
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he Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2008 provides an overview of leading DAM products and DAM best practices, including 7- to 15-page comparative evaluations of 10 DAM vendors, as well as 1-2 page summaries of 8 specialty and up-and-coming vendors. A lower-cost “SMB/Workgroup Edition” reviews a subset of 12 vendors most suitable for mid-sized […]
Remember when “Flash Intros” (or what Adobe would prefer me to call “introductory animations created with the software Adobe Flash,” lest I dilute their trademark) were all the rage? You had to have one play when a user first arrived at your site to be considered hip, media savvy, and up-to-date. But in reality, most […]
Wisdom from the masses – In depth on using web tools to collaborate between creatives. A few weeks ago there was a short but interesting thread on CML-pro (The Cinematographer’s Mailing List) about how to collaborate with other creatives on a production team using web-based tools. The original poster wanted a solution – a “group […]
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