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Do not let time take your precious recordings away from you and your loved ones. Video Kitchen can transfer your videos and movies to a digital format allowing you to enjoy and share your memories for decades to come.

Internet files from video footage

We produce video files ready to play on the Internet from your video footage. Now you can be your own min-TV broadcaster! Put a sports highlight video on the web of your star athlete so coaches at various colleges can easily view the video. Show off family activity to friends and family.

Promote your business with streaming video on the Internet. Consider the benefits of video on the world wide web:

  • It works for you 24/7
  • It's available when a prospect has an interest
  • It's easy to add to your existing pages
  • Cost is low

Any web site can host video. If you already have a video and you want to have it available on your web site, Video Kitchen can help make it happen. We can help you send video clips with your email, too. We can even take your video tape and post it on our web page: http://www.vidkit.com so anyone in the world can view it. (Uploading and monthly charges apply.)

The future in advertising is video on the Internet and it is here! Our Internet format of choice, Windows Media Video, is generated using the finest equipment recommended by Microsoft. Our service is fast, our price competitive.

Streaming Internet video looks and sounds great on web browsers, particularly if being viewed on a computer connected to a cable modem, DSL or T1 connection. The .WMV files play quickly and automatically in most browsers without the need to download additional software. For $30 to $50 you can have clips of video available on your web site for viewing by prospective customers, outlying divisions of your company, friends, family, you name it.

Video to Digital Formats - Standard Offerings

Minutes Cost
Setup $29.00
Per minute $ .99
Per segment $9.00

Normally we encode your video clip(s) to a CD from one or more video tapes. Each new video clip starts a new set of minutes. Any needed editing is performed at $99/hr. Allow 24 hours to complete a project.

We normally advise customers to encode their video clips at both high and low speeds and then give their viewers the option to select the speed of their connection, much as we did on our home page at this web site. Click on the highlighted descriptions below to see a sample of each type of encoding quality.

  • Dial-up Internet - 56 Kbps modem WMV video: This encodes your video to Microsoft's Windows Media Video format. It downloads in real-time on a dial-up modem connection at a data rate of 50 Kbps. The image size is 240x180 pixels played at 15 frames per second.

  • Broadband Internet - Cable/DSL or better WMV video: This encodes your video to a high quality Microsoft Windows Media Video format. It downloads in real-time high speed connections at 370 Kbps and can be easily viewed in a large window or full screen. The encoded image size is 320x240 pixels played at 15 frames per second.

In addition to the Windows Media files shown above, we can help you encode to other formats such as Flash, H.264 MPEG-4 and MPEG-1. If you need help with sample HTML for your web page, this code can normally be provided at our hourly editing rates.

In order to fit video clips on the Internet, we compress your video significantly. This can cause digital artifacts, stutter and smear in some types of footage. While people watching your video with Broadband technology (Cable/DSL/T1 modems) will enjoy good video, when your video is transferred over slower dial-up modems it will be played in small windows at less than 30 frames per second. For best results when planning your project, consider these points:

  • Stay close so details aren't lost.
  • Work from a tripod so your camera is rock solid.
  • Use a minimum of panning, tilting, and zooming.
  • Low quality tape mediums like VHS-C in EP mode make the compression programs block up video noise and grain excessively and may not produce a clear smooth picture.
  • Forget complex titles and far-away details. Keep the image simple, clean and stable.

If you need to create the videos, give us a call to shoot and edit it with our digital cameras, sophisticated audio systems and extensive lighting rigs for a high quality, Internet ready video.