Microsoft Research invents a new technology for editing and modifying video with capabilities similar to how still photographers manipulate and air brush still photos with Adobe Photoshop.
Watch the video demo – well worth watching!
Monthly Archives: January 2009
“Product placements” in online videos
How do you make money with online videos? One suggestion is to sell product placement with payment apportioned by the number of views the video receives: Monetize Your YouTube Videos With Product Placement and Tadcast. Certainly an interesting idea and potentially more successful than the “in your face” pre-roll ads used by some video services.
Microsoft Research Songsmith
Automatically composes bad music to go along with bad singing!
Microsoft Research Songsmith. Watch the video. If you can.
Please de-interlace your online video!
In the past few weeks I have watched several professionally produced online videos – great productions, great lighting, great talent, great content – and terrible online video encoding. The #1 problem by far was uploading interlaced video to online video host sites – please don’t do that!
The result is a comb-like effect on vertical and diagonal lines that are moving in the video! It’s ugly! And not necessary! Continue reading Please de-interlace your online video!
What does the face detection feature do in your camera?
Many video cameras now seem to include face detection capabilities. But what exactly is face detection? Our primer explains how it works and how it might stump you, too.
via Basic Training About Face!.
Two of my video cameras have face detection capability, and use that to adjust color balance and typically to soften the facial features to remove the effects of harsh, high contrast lighting on appearance. However, every camera is different. The feature started out in still cameras but is now available in video cameras too.