There are over one BILLION online videos.
Quick!
Find one about how to build your own wind generator.
Without a decent search engine, obviously that task would be impossible.
One search engine specifically designed for web video content is Clipta.com.
Clipta is more than just a video search engine though. Clipta is a comprehensive online video site with a multitude of unique features.
Clipta is also a video sharing site where you can upload your own videos and engage in social networking. Unlike most video sharing sites, Clipta also has a program to make a few bucks off your videos if they get a lot of views.
Through clipta, you can also easily access popular videos from many other online video sharing sites, including a section with news videos. The news video section is huge, featuring videos from CNN, Reuters, ABC, FOX News, FOX Business News, MSNBC, NBC2, Associated Press, and ESPN.
Clipta also has a community forum on all things related to online video. I sifted through it and there were thousands of posts on every online video related subject imaginable.
Clipta offers a free toolbar with a video download feature so you can download any video on the web to your own hard drive or other video storage device. The video will download in the flv format.
Clipta also offers some free conversion software that converts multiple video file formats into the MPEG4 format. One reason for this is that clipta wants you to upload your videos in the MPEG4 format.
With all these features, clipta goes way beyond a video search engine. But video search is their main service. You do not have to join the site in order to do a video search. You do have to join and create an account in order to upload videos for sharing. Joining Clipta is free.
The video search engine aspect of clipta touts itself as being “friendly” as well as comprehensive. Clipta has created what they call V-rate, their unique algorithm which takes into consideration many different aspects of user behavior as well as the video content itself.
Clipta states that their goal is to help people all over the world wide web have quick and easy access to the every growing library of online video…now standing at a measly one billion and growing rapidly every day!
Thanks for reading Video Production Tips
Lorraine Grula
Internet Video Gal
Screen Shot of Clipta Homepage
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