Free Video Editing For The Web Now Available At VideoFarm.com

Webby Nominee Also Adds A Host Of Features For New Filmmakers, Including Personal Online Cinemas, And A Beginner's Guide To Online Filmmaking

2-May-00

Javu Technologies, Inc., has made free video editing and distribution available to everyone at its filmmaker community site, VideoFarm.com. Centered around JavuNetplay, Javu's easy to use online video creation tool, the service has an enormous variety of applications, from home video fans who want to share their footage with friends and family over the Web, to e-commerce sites that want to present product promotions in streaming video. JavuNetplay service users will have a generous 100MB to store and share their videos and other digital content online for free (this is roughly 30 minutes of a typical streaming video), and can easily upgrade to richer premium package offerings. A sample video created using JavuNetplay can be seen at http://www.VideoFarm.com/Example.html. ""What's the point of spending all this money and effort on making a video with your desktop computer if you can't share it with anyone?,"" asked Michael Samoilov, President and CEO of Javu Technologies. ""JavuNetplay puts the video and video-making on the Net, where anyone you want can see it as you make it available - any time, all the time. Absolutely everyone with a desktop and an Internet connection can use it - the range of applications for this service is unlimited."" JavuNetplay's wizard-driven environment is designed to be simple and easy-to-use even for novice users, and represents a natural extension to the filmmaking community at VideoFarm.com. The community includes a forum for members to share and discuss their work, news, and a media library that members can use for stock footage or ideas. By paying a monthly fee, members gain access to JavuNetwork, Javu's flagship online video editing system designed for serious filmmakers as well as digitizing and a variety of other services. In conjunction with the release of the new service, VideoFarm.com's members will receive a host of other features such as a personal online cinema to showcase their work, advanced remote file management and online account management. Through a partnership with Flicktips.com, Javu has also added a FlickTips beginner's guide to online filmmaking. VideoFarm.com's basic, standard, and premium members will also have access to an upgraded version of Javu's flagship network-based media creation and editing system, JavuNetwork 2.5. Both JavuNetwork and JavuNetplay are available for licensing by ASPs, telcos, ISPs, Internet Content Providers, portals and other parties interested in offering a wide variety of online multimedia services. To create a video with JavuNetplay, one simply directs his or her browser to http://www.videofarm.com and then walks through JavuNetplay's wizard-like interface. Just by making selections from a series of pull-down menus, JavuNetplay allows anybody with a Web browser to create their own personalized video, and incorporate other footage, text, images and sounds as well as transitions and effects as desired. Users of JavuNetplay can upload their own digital media files into their VideoFarm account right from their desktops as well as access resources of VideoFarm.com's extensive media library, where content from such well known multimedia providers as SoundDogs and Videometry is available for members to use in their projects. Because JavuNetplay is Internet-based, it can be used through any browser, whether it is running on a PC, a Mac or even a Unix machine. Unlike proprietary PC or Mac-based solutions, it is compatible with just about every common video, image, text and sound format on the Internet, and the end-product can be viewed by anyone with access to the Web. As well as adding JavuNetplay to VideoFarm.com, Javu has completely redesigned the site and made a considerable number of improvements to its services for members. For example, it has always been possible for filmmakers to invisibly link to digital media hosted by VideoFarm.com from their own sites, but Javu has now added Personal Online Cinemas. The Personal Online Cinema enables filmmakers to embed their videos into a professional-looking Web page using a simple wizard-like tool. Visit http://www.videofarm.com:8060/onlinetheater/cyberspace.html to see an example. For users more skilled with HTML, VideoFarm continues to offer members their own URLs, allowing Web-savvy filmmakers to design their own pages. Javu has also upgraded its premium editing tool, JavuNetwork 2.5, so that it now handles Microsoft's ASF (Active Streaming Format) files as well as added convenient online account management, streamlined the facilities for transferring files to and from VideoFarm.com, and improved the file handling for members' work on the site. In addition to free accounts, VideoFarm.com offers premium members powerful online editing tools as well as up to a full gigabyte of hosting for monthly fees ranging from $19.95 to $89.95 per month. It is the only way to edit video online, and the only cost-effective, all-in-one solution for people who want to create, host, and distribute streaming or downloadable video content on their Web sites. About Javu Technologies Based in New York and founded in 1998, Javu Technologies Inc. is the first company to provide the technology and services for online multimedia content creation, editing and management in the ASP paradigm. Leveraging patent-pending proprietary RIVL technology from Cornell University and a highly-skilled research and development team in Russia and the US, Javu has created powerful and sophisticated products, positioning the company as the clear market leader. The company's flagship JavuNet line of products, which includes JavuNetwork, JavuNetwork Group and JavuNetplay, is the first to feature platform-independent free-format cross-media systems, which enable remote access, management and editing of all types of digital media content including video, image, audio, text and animation over and across the Internet or an intranet. Javu's network-centric model enables individual users to benefit from flexible collaborative project development and roaming access, while utilizing the superior computational resources and cost efficiencies of time-shared central server farm access. The company markets its Webby-nominated VideoFarm.com (http://www.videofarm.com) online video editing and management service to businesses and consumers, and its JavuNet applications to corporate intranets, ASPs, ISPs, Internet Content Providers and portals that want to offer value-added rich media online services to their customers. Javu Technologies is a privately-held company. More information about Javu Technologies can be found at http://www.javu.com.

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