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Onstream Media launches Film Festival Online

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filmfestival.pngOnstream Media Corporation, an online service provider of live and on-demand digital media, communications and applications, launched its Film Festival Online solution.

Onstream Media’s Film Festival Online is a comprehensive web portal that enables film festival organizers to bring together independent film producers, marketers and distributors in a web-based environment to review, judge and promote any type of film via the Internet all year round.

It also enable festival producers to create a speaker’s bureau center to stream live or on demand keynotes and other specialized tracks on their festival’s events. The solution also provides sponsors, distributors and marketers with advanced reporting, such as site visits, page views, duration of visits, click activity, exit pages and more.

Additional technology features of Onstream Media’s Film Festival Online include smart encoding, transcoding and indexing to allow on-site capture and upload of live festival video content. In addition, the solution provides user-friendly content publishing and integrated content management tools to help locate, access, edit, distribute and play back films in real-time or on-demand. Onstream Media’s Film Festival Online also delivers reliable and scalable storage options for optimized video storage and delivery.

Originally posted on December 5, 2007 @ 10:24 am

New film stars rise in YouTube’s Project Direct International Film Competition

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youtube.jpgYouTube announced the results of Project Direct, the company’s first ever international film competition sponsored by HP. Hundreds of talented filmmakers entered the contest and award-winning director, Jason Reitman, along with a panel of experts from Fox Searchlight, helped choose 20 finalists. The YouTube community then voted and selected their favorite films.

Adriana Falcão of Brazil won the competition for “Lacos.” As the grand prize winner, Falcão will spend nine days as a guest of HP at a major international film festival, will meet with Fox Searchlight Pictures production executives, will receive a $5,000 debit card and have her video played on the YouTube homepage in seven countries. Second place winner from the United States, Jacob Lewis, will receive a $5,000 debit card for his film “Gone in a Flash.” Additionally, third place winner, America’s Ben Shelton, will receive a $2,500 debit card for his film “My Name Is Lisa.”

Audiences can view the winning films and additional contest entries in a dedicated Project Direct gallery at www.youtube.com/projectdirectgallery. The gallery launches December 12, 2007 and will exist indefinitely to highlight the exceptional films that were submitted to the contest.

Originally posted on December 5, 2007 @ 11:28 am

Adobe Delivers Flash Player 9 With H.264 Video Support

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adobe-logo.jpgAdobe Systems Incorporated announced the released of Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 software, previously code named Moviestar. The player now includes H.264 standard video support, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray and HD-DVD high definition video players, and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio capabilities. The latest update also features hardware accelerated, multi-core enhanced, full-screen video playback for high-resolution viewing across major operating systems and browsers. The combination of Adobe Flash Player 9 and Adobe Flash Media Server 3 enables the delivery of HD quality video to the broadest online audience.

Originally posted on December 4, 2007 @ 10:36 am