DV Kitchen has just announced the release of a new version of their widely acclaimed video converter for mac osx.

Version 2.0 includes a completely redesigned publishing room which now has some amazing new features that have never been seen before.

In this article, I walk you through how to publish a video using QuickTime as the platform. Here’s how it works:

When you enter the publishing room interface, you are given the option of selecting a clip that has already been uploaded to a remote server, or one that you have either just encoded or imported from another program.

Having done that, you are offered the choice of three publishing platforms, Quicktime, Jeroen Wijering’s flash player, or ShadowBox.

Again, in this example, we’re only concerned with the QuickTime platform. Drilling down into the Quicktime option, you are presented with 3 sub options:

1. Normal Quicktime embed

2. Default poster frame

3. Custom poster frame

The normal Quicktime embed is a great choice if you just want your movie to appear in a web page quickly. DV Kitchen will generate the required html code automatically and offer the option to upload to your web server then and there.

That’s how easy it is. Note that you can have DV Kitchen generate a whole html page or just a code snippet. The snippet is useful where you are hand coding your html or where you have a blog or other CMS platform. Just copy the snippet and drop it into the page wherever you need it..

You don’t have to type in where your movie is stored, height, width, or any of that stuff. It’s compatible with all browsers and every platform . . . it just works.

Multiple Embeds

Okay, so that’s a great publishing option if you only have one video on the page. But what if you have multiple videos on the same page? It’s not a great idea to have them all start buffering at the same time because it will make the browser very sluggish.

That’s where the poster options become useful. The default poster frame simply places a default image at the start of the clip as a kind of placeholder. It looks great and will suffice for many situations. Once you click the play button, the movie replaces the static image.

If you want to create your own graphic, the manual tells you where the default graphic is stored, so you could have a company logo or similar.

The custom poster frame option is a new feature that allows you to scrub through the video to be embedded and select a frame to use as the poster frame. DV Kitchen will grab a still off the frame, upload it to your server and write it into the html embed code. It’s pretty slick.

There you have it . . . QuickTime video publishing made quick and easy with DV Kitchen, the best video converter for mac on the planet.

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