Here’s an excerpt from my (Jan Ozer) new book, Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices, and HTML5. It’s important to recognize that when you deliver video over the Internet, you have multiple options, including streaming, progressive download, and adaptive streaming. Note that the mode you choose may have a significant impact on how you produce your files. Streaming Experientially, the …

On Tuesday (5/24), as part of an upcoming review of Sonic Foundry’s Mediasite rich media communications program, I participated in a webinar from Madison Wisconsin. Here’s the description: Sonic Foundry is proud to host live streaming expert Jan Ozer who literally wrote the book on digital video. He’s been teaching courses on streaming video for nearly 20 years, and during …

Here are some resources discussed in my Sonic Foundry Webcast. Presentation in PDF format Planning mindmap Background checklist Clothing checklist Flat lighting tutorial Three-point lighting tutorial Shooting skills tutorials (including controlling exposure)

I produced a video for EventDV on new features in Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5. Here’s the official description: Video production and compression expert Jan Ozer takes a look inside Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5, exploring new features such as new presets and project drag-and-drop from After Effects and Premiere Pro and explaining how to use new features such as Watch folders …

                  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ozer releases book: Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5 New book helps streaming producers navigate the confusing waters of live and on-demand delivery to multiple platforms, covering both adaptive and single file delivery. New York City – May 9, 2011 – At StreamingMedia East in New …

Here are the slides from the Encoding for Adaptive Streaming workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Wednesday, May 11, 2011. Click below to download the files.

Here are the slides from the Encoding for iDevices workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Click below to access the download link.

Here are the slides from the Encoding for Flash, Mobile and HTML5 workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East Monday, May 9, 2011. Here’s the agenda.

Here are the slides from the Encoding for HTML5 workshop that I hosted at Streaming Media East, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Click below to access the download link.

This article contains the videos that I encoded for an article I wrote for OnlineVideo.net. Specifically, I encoded video on five UGC sites, YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, DailyMotion and Metacafe, and VideoPress, which is the fee-based video publishing option available to WordPress users. After uploading the videos, I embedded them using each web site’s players in this article. Here they are: …