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SUPER Open Source Video Encoder & Player

By VideoPro | Published: April 4, 2008
The Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer (SUPER) is the Swiss Army knife of video transcoders. It can encode and decode virtually any media file and offers a plethora of options for encoding web videos. Although similar to MPEG Streamclip, SUPER seems to be more stable, advanced, and user friendly and does not rely on [...]
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Download Free Stock Footage at stockfootageforfree.com

By VideoPro | Published: April 3, 2008
With over 100 clips spanning 10 categories and growing, StockFootageForFree.com is a great source for free broadcast quality stock video clips. All you have to do is fill out a simple form and you can download free fullsize SD clips (NTSC 720×480 29.97fps DV AVI) for use in your productions. Currently offering useful categories like [...]
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Flowplayer: Open Source Flash Video Player For Your Website

By VideoPro | Published: April 1, 2008
Adding Flash Video to a website without using a service like Vimeo or YouTube can be challenging if you are not a Flash Action Script expert. Maybe you have a intranet or paid content site and you need to host the video files on your own server and want to display the files in a [...]
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OpenFootage.net – Free Open Source Full HD Timelapse & High Resolution Textures

By VideoPro | Published: March 22, 2008
Don’t have a camera that can shoot HD? Need HD stock footage for compression testing or maybe a few high resolution textures for your next project? Look no further than OpenFootage.net. Offering up gorgeous timelapse shots at 1080p, 720p, PAL, and NTSC, all of their content is available for free under a Creative Commons license. [...]
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MPEG Streamclip v1.1 – Free H.264 Encoding Software for Windows & Mac

By VideoPro | Published: February 5, 2008
Squared 5 has released one of the few free solutions for encoding H.264 QuickTime MOV files that includes a graphical user interface. Since it uses the QuickTime 7 Player’s rendering engine, you must have the free player installed. A side benefit to this is that it will allow you export to the same codecs as [...]
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