A leading expert on H.264 encoding for live and on-demand production, and as contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, has tested most cloud, enterprise and desktop encoding tools, worked with most online video platforms (OVPs) and live streaming services, and many webcast platforms.
On March 30, 2009, Hewlett Packard announced three new
workstations that leverage Intel’s new Nehalem line of CPUs. To assess the
significance of these new computers to the streaming market, I tested two
Nehalem-based systems against
Welcome back to our presentation of how HP’s new Intel Nehalem-based workstations compare to older workstations when rendering from Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4). Briefly, in the last installment, I detailed the tests that I performed, and discussed the results for DV and HDV source materials. This time out, I present the results for DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Red…
In April, 2009, I gave a half day seminar before the Greater
Wisconsin Chapter of the Media Communications Associates,
International. I spent the fourth hour describing how video is being
used by
organizations to market their products and
Many
digital shooters started with DV video, which hammered the nail in the analog
video coffin and democratized video production by dropping the price of
capturing very good video from $25,000 (BetaSP camera and deck) to well under
$4,00
Every spring I speak at Streaming Media East
in New York City. Usually, I do a 3-hour, tech-heavy seminar on
streaming production or the current state of the codec market, plus a
1-hour discussion on an equally weighty topic. This year I decided t
I presented a half day seminar for the Greater Wisconsin Chapter of the
MCA-I on Thursday, April 9. I wanted to thank all the folks who made
that possible and made my stay enjoyable, including Dick Kenitzer, Pam
Rucinski, and especially Colleen Pa
Let’s assume that you’re a small to mid-size nonmedia company seeking
to use video to acquire or retain customers, train your employees, and,
perhaps, communicate with investors, and you’re considering inexpensive
alternatives fo
Introduction – accelerating your encoding on multiple core mac and windows workstations
Streaminglearningcenter.com is pleased to offer for free download a streaming media primer written by Jan Ozer.The
primer starts by defining commonly used streaming terms like bandwidth,
streaming and data rate, and then explains universal encoding
Galax, Virginia. Streaminglearningcenter.com is pleased to offer for free download a streaming media primer written by Jan Ozer. The primer starts by defining commonly used streaming terms like bandwidth, streaming and data rate, and then explains universal encoding parameters like VBR and I, B and P-frames. Then it introduces readers to the big three codecs,…