We always try to make HeyWatch even more powerful and comfortable for your business.

That is why, we have just added the “multiple format in one request” feature. It will allow you to automatically encode videos in multiple formats with one unique request. Faster and more efficient, you save time in your global process.

Have a look at the API Documentation to see the changes : http://wiki.heywatch.com/API+Documentation+Download

Do not hesitate to send us your feedback and ideas for new features :
heywatch (at) particle-s (dot) com

We are pleased to say that the implementation of the WebM VP8 video codec is done. From now, you can transcode your videos in the next most popular video codec with HeyWatch.

Just to remind you, here are the technical details:
- Container File Format: WebM
- Video Codec: VP8
- Audio Codec: Ogg Vorbis
- Container DOCTYPE: webm
- File Extension: .webm
- Mime Type: video/x-webm

Please, do not hesitate to give us feedback on it - heywatch (at) particle-s (dot) com

We are very proud to announce that HeyWatch is one of the first supporters of this great video project. The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone.

By the way, we join many smart companies such as Mozilla, Opera, Google and more than forty other publishers, software and hardware vendors.

Here are the technical details:
- Container File Format: WebM
- Video Codec: VP8
- Audio Codec: Ogg Vorbis
- Container DOCTYPE: webm
- File Extension: .webm
- Mime Type: video/x-webm

We are very excited because this new format will open the video market and contribute to set up great video standards for the future of the Web. Google makes a fantastic step forward by offering this a high-quality, royalty-free and open source video codec. And, at HeyWatch, we strongly want to be part of this technology trip.

We are currently working on the implementation and a Beta should be available very soon. Stay tuned.

A Double Whopper, please! Whaou, the most famous Burger company, BK, uses HeyWatch to encode video for its basketball community : The Next Best Move. That’s so great and tasty.

The Next Best Move is a promotion in which BURGER KING® invites people to showcase the best moves on the basketball court. You can either participate in person at events in forty-one (41) Markets across the United States, or you can submit your entry online.

BK Corporate selected HeyWatch to upload and encode videos from all BasketBall Fans. They liked the easy and fast way to integrate HeyWatch as their video transcoding engine. For this purpose, they used our REST API.

We are very so pleased and…hungry. Can’t wait.

What to say, but we are so pleased and honored to work with Tumblr, the trendiest blogging platform. Tumblr lets you effortlessly share anything. Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from your browser, phone, desktop, email, or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors, to your theme’s HTML.

But to become even more powerful and appealing, Tumblr has just rolled out crazy simple native video uploading and encoding to all accounts. This is designed to be an easy alternative to full-blown video sites when all you want to do is post a quick video to your blog. Intuitive, fun and addictive.

And to power that brilliant new feature, Tumblr partners with HeyWatch, leader in professional online video encoding since 2006.

Particles will be present at LeWeb’09 next week in Paris, France. The show will take place on Dec 9th and 10th!

With over 1800 participants from 30 countries, LeWeb is the #1 European Internet event.

LeWeb brings together the best and the brightest people of the web industry from attendees to speakers. Take advantage of a unique setting of networking areas around the main stage to meet your peers, to get inspired, to grow your business, to develop partnerships…

We’ll be so pleased to meet you there and introduce our Video Web Services:
- HeyWatch, our Video Transcoding Platform
- HeySpread, our Video Distribution and Tracking Platform

Feel free to contact Eric, our VP Business - eric(dot)fontaine(at)particle-s(dot)com

We are very proud to announce a new partnership with one of the trendiest and powerful Online Video Platform, LongTail Video.

LongTail Video is the premier destination for online video solutions. Whether you’re a webmaster searching for the best online player compatible with dozens of plugins and skins; a consumer looking for a great desktop player; or a publisher interested in monetizing their videos, LongTail Video can help.

The Company’s media players have streamed billions of videos and their AdSolution serves millions of pre-roll, overlay mid-roll and post-roll ads daily. LongTail solves the video puzzle… one piece at a time.

Now, you can select two powerful modules to personalize your LongTail Video platform:
- HeyWatch if you need professional and fully customizable Online Video Transcoding - here -
- HeySpread if you want to mass-distribute and track your video over the Web - here -

Hi People,

If you need a white label social network platform, you already know Kickapps for sure. KickApps provides brands, enterprises and web publishers with solutions that enable them to create and manage next generation web experiences that are social, interactive, dynamic, distributed, and data-informed. KickApps solutions consist of a suite of hosted social and media applications and services that are used by some of the world’s largest websites and brands to grow & engage their online audiences and foster deeper relationships with customers.

KickApps clients include HBO, CW Television Network, National Geographic, Guinness World Records, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Kraft, the Special Olympics and numerous professional sports teams around the world such as the San Francisco 49ers or even the Phoenix Suns.

Kickapps chose HeyWatch to externalize all its heavy video encoding processes. They started having their internal encoding solution. But quickly, they realized that it was too difficult to maintain and so, so expensive. Thus, they decided to contact Pros. Now, they have the Highest Video Quality and they save Money thanks to HeyWatch.

Hi People,

If you are a Twitter fan and a video addict, you will love TwitVid for sure. TwitVid lets you share videos on Twitter. Simple but so great. You can share your video from the site itself using the uploader, a dead simple API, your mobile via Email or MMS. And also via a your Webcam.

You can get your TwitVid Widget and show your latest TwitVids on your blog or site.

Besides, great addictive features are coming soon such as Realtime uploads. With Realtime uploads your followers will be able to watch the video as it’s uploading.

TwitVid uses HeyWatch to convert videos in the highest quality for their users.

By the way, the TwitVid team is currently integrating HeySpread to allow their users to automatically upload their videos to YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and others.

TwitVid is the next so promising Twitter service. You will be addict.

Some of our customers wanted to have full control over the H264 settings because our default ones don’t fit their needs. It’s okay and this is why we decided to bring you all the X264 options (only via API for now).

Add the “x264_options” parameter to your job / download request and you’re ready to go. The form must be:

x264_options=param1:value1,param2:value2,...

See the full documentation here.

We need to warn you: don’t use this option if you don’t know what you’re doing. The default settings we’re using should just be fine for most of you.

Here are the full list of available parameters (ffmpeg names not the x264 ones):

We strongly advise you to read these sites before starting:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
• http://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/x264-ffmpeg-mapping
• http://sites.google.com/site/linuxencoding/x264-encoding-guide
• http://wiki.heywatch.com/API+Documentation+Job

This is a beta feature, so we don’t charge more credits for now, and of course we’d love to hear your feedbacks via Twitter or via email.

Hope you enjoy.