Some of the things I do are software development, tutorials creation, and occasionally home video production. As a result I have to present and market my work to others and I do this by creating videos of my work or product. But presenting my work to others is usually not an easy task because of the output format of the videos and the target audience. These factors greatly influence the success of my work because no matter how good my work is if it cannot reach those for whom the work was created then there can be no success or recognition for my work. What complicates matters is the fact that the target audience is not just in my backyard but all over the world. Anyone would agree that the most cost effective and efficient way to reach the global audience is by using the internet or World Wide Web. What complicates matters even further is that my videos are typically in a format not suitable for efficient distribution and viewing over the internet. In addition, my videos even though are functional they are typically basic in functionality in terms of player controls and visual effects. Turbine Video Encoder solves these problems by allowing video authors to encode their videos with a variety of features and publish in different formats to provide the end users with a rich media experience delivered on the internet as well as on physical media. To create rich videos Turbine Video Encoder offers many encoding features such as video settings, audio settings, visual effects, player controls, and addition of subtitles to videos. Turbine Video Encoder enables video authors to customize their videos with the available encoding features. Turbine Video Encoder may not be the only solution to enable internet video distribution and streaming but sure appears to be one of the best solutions.
I got an opportunity to put Turbine Video Encoder to test by using a video of a program I developed. The program is actually the familiar game of Tic Tac Toe. I already had a video (AVI format) of this game program but it was basic in appearance and limited in functionality. Furthermore, this video did not play in windows media player on one of my computers because apparently there was no AVI codec on that computer. I thought AVI was standard but I was wrong. This further pushed me towards a solution that uses a standard, free, and easily available video format. Plus I needed a solution to effectively distribute my video online. Using Turbine Video Encoder I was able to accomplish my objectives i.e., good looking video that uses free and prevalent video format for online distribution.
The process of encoding and converting video was very simple and straightforward. Turbine Video Editor supports majority of video and audio formats. First I opened my video in Turbine Video Encoder. After opening the video Turbine Video Encoder offers two simple views Timeline and Preview. Timeline view gives a timeline of the video. This is view is used to edit a video. Preview view enables the video to be previewed before it can be published. Timeline view provides a slider that can be used to drag by mouse to navigate the video to go to any time or location in the video. There are also indicators that display the start time, end time, and duration of selected video (selection). These indicators are useful in preventing editing of wrong portion (part) of video because they let the author know exactly where he or she is in the video and what portion of the video is being edited.
Program Main Window
Turbine Video Editor provides a lot of pre-defined video and audio settings to adjust the quality of video. I found the availability of these settings to be very useful in adjusting and improving the quality of my video. Audio and video resolution can be fine tuned to produce quality videos.
Video Settings
Audio Settings
Turbine Video Editor provides capability to add visual effects to video. There are many pre-defined visual effects that can be applied to a video to create stunning visual effects. Turbine Video Editor also supports visual effects from the open source FreeFrame framework. Since there is no shortage of visual effects at FreeFrame there is a lot of scope to turn around dull videos into exciting videos.
Visual Effects
Turbine Video Editor provides capability to add and customize player used to play videos. There are a number of pre-defined and excellent players that add professional, rich, and stylistic look to videos. There is also capability to customize the player. Authors can configure options such as auto start video, what to do when video ends, URL navigation links, customize player controls, etc. There are many player customizations to turn a basic video into one that is appealing, interactive, controllable, and automated
Player Settings
Turbine Video Editor also provides capability to add captions to video. This feature is particularly useful in creating videos because it allows addition of information to concisely reiterate what the video is showing, or to separate a video into parts and add titles, or to enable people with hearing disability to follow the video. The captions are highly customizable and help improve content delivery.
Subtitles
Additional tools and features available in Turbine Video Editor are save a video to PowerPoint, use previously saved settings, upload video directly to a web site, batch encoding, capture live video, and check for new version of software. Batch encoding is a useful feature that saves time by allowing encoding multiple videos in one shot. Capture live video feature allows capturing live video such as from webcam easily. Since this feature is available in Turbine Video Editor itself video production of live video becomes very easy. There is no need to use 3rd party software to capture video via webcam, save it as a file, and then open it in Turbine Video Editor to produce a video.
In conclusion all in all Turbine Video Encoder enables video authors to spruce up their videos with stunning visual effects, excellent player controls, customized audio and video settings, and subtitles. Turbine Video Editor is very easy to work with because it has a very simple user interface. Everything is done on the main window and there is no need to switch between multiple windows. I believe Turbine Video Encoder would be very useful to people who publish home videos on the internet, professional who distribute their video content on the internet, entire spectrum of businesses that have a need to share and distribute video both internally and externally, academic institutions that have a need to distribute video tutorials to students, bloggers, and online news media. I cannot imagine any person or business in the business of video production and distribution on the internet to not need Turbine Video Encoder. Turbine Video Encoder leverages flash technology with the above mentioned state of the art features and enables video authors to create professional and stylistic videos for a rich user experience. Turbine Video Encoder is available at http://www.blue-pacific.com/products/turbinevideo/default.htm
Below are the before and after videos. Notice the differences between them both in terms of professionalism and richness.
Here is the video in AVI format.
Here is a video after conversion by Turbine Video Encoder. Notice the player, player controls, text description on the right side, and great looks.
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