My article The Moving Picture: Decoding YouTube Upload Options just posted on www.eventdv.net. It explores the options available when uploading original SD video to YouTube, detailing my conclusions after uploading six files ranging in resolution from 480×270 to 720p. Click over to the main streaminglearningcenter site for links to the test files on YouTube.
The type and amount of statistics and analytics provided by an OVP is a critical selection criteria. Veeple is an OVP that features clickable hotspots in the video. Here’s a short (under 3 minutes) video of Veeple’s viewing analytics that I found useful in understanding the type of information that they supply. I’m sure most…
Just because you have a fancy 3CCD camcorder doesn’t mean you know how to shoot for streaming, but this article in AV Technology will help you get started. I hope you find it useful.
Just got off the phone with Jay Simons from Atlassian, an Australian software company specializing in collaboration and development tool like Jira, Confluence and FishEye. Atlassian uses screencam videos to illustrate new features and quick training tips, and produces the screencams with Telestream ScreenFlow. I was chatting about Atlassian’s choice of Episodic as their Online…
Talk about something that totally blindsides you – the FTC has apparently decided to start policing customer testimonials and the like. Here’s a snippet from the FTC website. Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the…
My Squeeze 6 quality and performance review just appeared on the
Digital Content Producer site. I looked at both Windows Media and H.264
quality, but not VP6 because Squeeze couldn’t meet my data rate
targets. More on that here.
To see the rev
So, you’ve got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here’s some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a…
Just back from StreamingMedia West, it was a great, high energy show. I just posted a lengthy article on my reflections from the show on the main site, here.
The type and amount of statistics and analytics provided by an OVP is a
critical selection criteria. Veeple is an OVP that features clickable
hotspots in the video. Here’s a short (under 3 minutes) video of
Veeple’s viewing analytics that I found
Digital Content Producer just published an article that I wrote explaining the basics of Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming to the iPhone/iTouch platform, both how the technology works and your implementation options. I think that streaming to this platform will become essential over the next 12 to 18 months, as mobile viewership increases. For example (as…