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Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Put Audio & Video on Your Web Site As a company that sells streaming media services for a living, we get questions everyday about what needs to be done to make an audio or video presentation that will stream well over the Internet. Most of these inquiries come from small businesses with limited budgets for marketing and advertising. They are always pleasantly surprised when we tell them that they can do it themselves! Aug 22, 2005, 23:57 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming How Video can be used Effectively Online A powerful way to convey your communication messages to your audience is to be able to have your promotional video available on your website. Yet, we have probably all experienced visiting a website and clicking on a video only to have to been irritated that the content is not viewable or that the sound is inaudible. The result is we leave the website in frustration. Aug 22, 2005, 23:55 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming E-Commerce & Streaming Media: A Marriage that Works In the heavily populated world of E-Commerce, what determines whose site will be successful and whose won’t? Is it the layout and design of the basic site? No. We all know of sites where no expense was spared on design and the company still failed to produce a commercial success. Is it the product offering? No. We all know of sites where the product offering was more than adequate, the pricing competitive, and service was acceptable, yet success was elusive. Aug 22, 2005, 23:53 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Five Ways to Profit from Using Video Online The newest media wave to hit the online shore is video. Individual emails abound with links to "the funniest video ever," or blurry clips of new babies or birthday parties. Businesses, on the other hand, have largely been left standing on the shore, scratching their heads and wondering if there's any real value to be earned from diving into making their own live video broadcasts, video emails or video on demand infommercials. Here are just five of the many ways video adds to the bottom line of any company. Aug 22, 2005, 23:49 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Video Email - The New Way to Communicate The Internet is now a thriving means of communication and for everyone around the globe to receive the most up to date information at the click of a mouse button. Sending an email is now accepted as the quickest and easiest way to converse with your friends and family or business acquaintances and everyday millions of emails are sent worldwide. However, as in all aspects of life today even this form of communication is fast becoming the “old hat” system and the new kid on the block is now high streaming video email. Aug 22, 2005, 23:45 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Streaming Video on Your Website - Convert Visitors into Customers Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive. Streaming media is streaming video with sound. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives. The user needs a player, which is a special program that uncompresses and sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers. A player can be either an integral part of a browser or downloaded from the software maker's Web site. Aug 22, 2005, 23:43 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Beginner's Guide to PC Video Editing If you're new to PC video editing then knowing where to start can be a bit daunting, so hopefully this guide will point you in the right direction. To start with you will need a few items of equipment Camcorders/Video Decks Depending on your requirements or aims there are number of different solutions to discuss, so i will split these up into separate sections. Aug 22, 2005, 23:39 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Is Video Streaming the Future for Corporate Video? Things have changed quite a bit from when I started in the film & video business in 1988. Back then, many corporate programmes were still shot and edited on film. Video shooting was on "plain Jane", non-SP, analogue Betacam. Video editing was on Low Band U-Matic - a process that required copious notes to be taken and a day or two of writing all the timecode numbers down for the (linear) on-line edit. Mastering was on bulky one-inch reel to reel video, that was so sensitive to magnetic fields, it couldn't be taken on a London tube train. Distribution was either on Low Band U-Matic, Betamax (remember that?), or VHS. Aug 22, 2005, 23:35 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Boost Your Online Sales with Audio and Video Support Have you ever noticed when you are shopping at most any retail store there is background music being played and if you need help understanding how a product works or need aid in purchasing the correct equipment there is always a person near by to help you? Aug 22, 2005, 23:32 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Independent Video in the Information Age One of the primary obstacles for video content distribution over the Internet is the cost of specialized software required to encode video. Video encoding consists of converting video content into compressed digital data that can be easily distributed electronically. Aug 22, 2005, 23:25 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Peer to Peer Internet Video Broadcasting Unlike standard television broadcasting, there are a limited number of viewers that an Internet television station can accommodate. These limitations are determined by the amount of bandwidth the network media server has available. A popular Internet television station would require large amounts of bandwidth to provide the broadcast to a large viewing audience. Aug 22, 2005, 23:22 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Video Production Explained Video is a powerful marketing medium with the ability to communicate concise, precise and controlled information with a positive effect. A well-constructed video fires the imagination, increases the energy level and ensure that all feel part of your event. It will engage the emotions, focus the attention and enable each individual to visualise his/her role as part of the team. Aug 22, 2005, 23:19 Business Articles : Online Business : Video Streaming Create a Favicon for Your Customers Bookmarks in Four Easy Steps. A favicon is a custom icon that sits next to your web site title in a persons favourite's menu when they have bookmarked your site, it is an easy way to create an 'eye drawing image' to ensure that people always see you link in their favourite's and should hopefully encourgae them to check out that 'great site that they haven't visited yet today!' Aug 22, 2005, 23:17