How to create great-looking hardcoded subtitles
Outputting perfect hardcoded subtitles for social media sites like Facebook and Twitter is not as easy as it looks. Here's how to do it.
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Video lenses for Mirrorless: How sharp should a lens be, how wide the aperture?
What matters more than resolving power for video are weight, quiet focusing, focus shift and focus breathing.
Video Stabilisation Test: iPhone 11 Pro vs Nikon Z6 vs Canon M6
If you ever wondered how the video stabilization in iPhone 11 compares to what's in a Nikon or Canon camera, here's a three-way shootout.
Why You Should Buy Vimeo Pro on Sale on Mother’s Day
I worry that Vimeo Pro Pricing is so good that eventually Vimeo will remove the basic Pro account for new users. Get Vimeo Pro now at 30% off.
Netflix Valuation: A European Perspective
Netflix has just enjoyed an amazing price run from about $190/share to a high of $333/share. The share price has fallen to about $290 now. It’s still wildly overpriced.
Let me explain. Profit is $559 million. There are 432 million shares outstanding. Earnings per share is $1.25. That’s a peak P/E (price to earnings) ratio of 264! As a comparison Walmart’s P/E in 2017 was 20.7.
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How to create video subtitles using Youtube
Video seems to be everything everyone wants these days. According to CISCO, video will account for 75 per cent of all consumer internet traffic in 2017 and that number will only continue to rise into the year 2020.
Let’s take Facebook as an example. If you publish a written update or a link to your blog post on your Facebook page, you will be unpleasantly surprised by how many people have actually seen your update. But if you turn your post into an image or you go even further and create a video out of it, you will most definitely increase the reach of the message.
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3 New Tricks For Tracking Videos with Google Analytics
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. But if you don’t mind to giving up your commercial data in exchange for free services, Google Analytics is the closest thing to free lunch. This kind of granular tracking used to cost $500/website per month before Google acquired Urchin and gradually rolled out its free analytics based on Urchin’s technology.
Google Analytics doesn’t just work for html content. It’s possible to build hooks into video technology which allows Analytics to report back in depth on who is watching how much of your video. We have described how to do it with FV Player in our guide Using Google Analytics with FV Player some time ago. Now it has been updated with a couple of neat new tricks, that will make your life a lot easier.
1. Tracking errors
It’s now easy to track errors. This allows you to quickly correct any issues. You will know if someone tried to watch a video two days ago and it failed to load on his or her iPad.
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WordPress video player support for Blackberry 10 OS
We’ve just done some testing on my brand new Blackberry Passport (a great QWERTY keyboard device but more on that in another review with our FV Player Pro.
Here’s the device user agent is:
Mozilla/5.0 (BB10; Kbd) AppleWebKit/537.35+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.3.1.2576 Mobile Safari/537.35+
Here are some tests using my Blackberry Passport against FV Player, Flowplayer, JWplayer and video.js . Keep in mind that only the Blackberry Passport, Q10, Q5, Z10, Z30, Blackberry Classic, Blackberry Leap and P’9982 and P’9983 run Blackberry 10 OS. Any other Blackberries or RIM devices are running OS 7 or earlier and are not really capable of playing video at all.
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New Chapter for Web Video: Paypal default home page 2K video background
I was just trying to login to my Paypal account on my 2600 x 1600 main monitor and imagine my shock when the giant screen went into full size motion.
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That a mainstream financial site would be running larger than HD videos by default is a huge change in the infrastructure and the aesthetic of the web.
What chance does television stand?
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FV Flowplayer adds Youtube and Vimeo support
Adapts YouTube and Vimeo videos to your autoplay, width and height settings: automatically upgrade your video technology over time.
