By far, the most difficult step for any would-be online video producer, blogger or videomaker is the ability to master the idiosyncrasies of a multitude of different video formats, encoding and compression nightmares and the needs to serve the same content optimized for different users and connections. Nonetheless, all the buzz around video blogging and the online video revolution, it still remains very hard for the layman and non-technical person to conquer and come to master all these many technical issues.

Do you produce in Windows Media, Quicktime or Real? What about MPEG4? What kind of resolution is best to use to capture? And to edit? What about finding out which is the best codec, the right compression levels, or data rate to use?

Finding the perfect combination among all these variables is just not for everyone. I myself have spent nearly two months in trying to figure out what is the best answer for each one of the questions above.

Shoot, capture, download, compress, encode, view. Repeat. I must have done this sequence hundreds of times in these last few weeks, just to find out the result for each one of the possible combinations.

And even when you are good at producing good quality video clips that can play on most users computers you are still left with the issue of uploading, hosting and serving the video effectively to your potential viewers. Though an increasing number of video distribution outlets has recently become available, hardly none provides the full feature set required for a video producer to shoot, capture, encode/compress, upload and serve in wildly accessible format your video masterpieces.

Eric Rice’s Audioblog is one service that while having provided for a long while an excellent and easy to use web-based audio production facility has recently ventured into launching a complementary video publishing facility. Its prices are very accessible and a try-out is available to anyone.

Other online video publishing services like Vimeo, Veoh, Google Video, Ourmedia offer hosting and bandwidth but do not provide the integrated facilities to capture video straight from your webcam or mobile phone. JussPress and YouTube are more similar to Video Egg in that they both use Flash technology to capture, encode and deliver the video clips submitted.

But thanks to Chris Shipley of Demo who first hand-picked it for its latest showcase, and to Robert Scoble who first reported about it online, what I want to point your attention to is a new personal video publishing service that just blows everything else out there in the dust…

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