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Jan Ozer

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I help companies train new technical hires in streaming media-related positions; I also help companies optimize their codec selections and encoding stacks and evaluate new encoders and codecs. I am a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, writing about codecs and encoding tools. I have written multiple authoritative books on video encoding, including Video Encoding by the Numbers: Eliminate the Guesswork from your Streaming Video (https://amzn.to/3kV6R1j) and Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less (https://amzn.to/3ZJih7e). I have multiple courses relating to streaming media production, all available at https://bit.ly/slc_courses. I currently work as www.netint.com as a Senior Director in Marketing.

Free Webinar – Introduction to Live Event Streaming

Tuesday, October 4, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST I know it’s late, but if you’re free, check out this seminar that I’m producing with the MCA-I. Here’s the description: This seminar will introduce attendees to live event streaming. It will start by discussing the technologies underlying live event streaming, like codecs and formats, and how most live event platforms can …

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Normalization and Compression in Adobe CS5.5

Streaming viewers will tolerate some video degradation but expect audio to be near perfect. There are two techniques you can use to make sure that your audio loud, clear and robust. Normalization increases volume as much as possible without introducing distortion into the file, while compression makes the signal as robust as possible. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to …

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Be Your Own Compression Consultant

So. You’ve decided to add video to your website. Now it’s time to configure the streams.You’re either working with your own streaming server, or using an online video platform (OVP) that lets you configure your streams, so now you’re trying to figure out the best resolution, data rate and H.264 encoding parameters for your file or files. You could call …

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RAM Requirements for Adobe CS5.5

This article is the second of a series on configuring your Windows workstation for producing with Adobe CS 5.5. The focus of this particular article is the optimal RAM configuration for both a single CPU and dual CPU system for producing with Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder. Figure 1. The HP Z400, our single CPU, 4/8-core contestant. As an …

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Ozer Releases Online Training: Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan Ozer Streaming Learning Center 276-238-9135 [email protected] www.streaminglearningcenter.com   Ozer Releases Online Training: Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder New online training workshop helps Adobe CS5.5 producers efficiently encode top-quality video for streaming, iDevices and optical media Galax – August 30, 2011 – The Streaming Learning Center announces the immediate availability of a 3-hour training …

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Perfecting Audio Quality in SoundTrack Pro

In this free tutorial, you'll learn to remove background noise and pops and clicks in SoundTrack Pro, then apply normalization and compression.

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Perfecting Audio Quality in Adobe Audition

Here’s a tutorial on perfecting audio quality in Apple SoundTrack Pro (RIP) with the following agenda. The tutorial is from a training product that has been discontinued and uses an older version of Audition, though the functionality has not meaningfully changed since then, so the knowledge should transfer.  If you’d like to follow along with the action in the tutorial, …

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Color Correction in Premiere Pro

Here’s a tutorial on perfecting video quality in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 3 with the following agenda. The tutorial is from a training product that has been discontinued and uses an older version of Premiere Pro, though the functionality has not meaningfully changed since then, so the knowledge should transfer.  If you’d like to follow along with the action in …

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Free Videos: Overview of the Adobe Media Encoder Workflow

I just released a 3 hour workshop entitled Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder CS 5.5. It was produced by Video2Brain, and you can view course details here. I produced three short videos to answer questions you may have about the workshop. They are: – What does the workshop cover? – Adobe Media Encoder is easy to use. …

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Ozer Book Selected as Compression Textbook by Portland Community College

Just a quick note that Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5 has been adapted for Seth Bloombaum’s streaming course at Portland (Oregon) Community College. (MM236 in the Multimedia Program.) In his note to me letting me know, Seth commented, “I’m really very enthusiastic about the the new book. IMHO it’s been a long time since there was a …

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