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Beginners’ Guide to Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Lesson of the Week: What’s the Optimal Data Rate for Mezzanine Files?
Product Review: Epiphan Pearl Nano
My review of the Epiphan Pearl Nano is now available on Streaming Media. The video I produced for the review is below. Note that I really liked the feature set and usability but found that video quality suffered from a slight cast as you can in Figure 8 of the article and below. The cast is most visible in the …
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Sourcebook 2021 Tutorials Focus Video and Course Production
Every year, the Streaming Media Sourcebook features tutorials to help streaming media professionals perform their daily tasks faster and better and buyer’s guides to help them purchase the right gear and software. This year I focused my articles on video production topics. Here are the tutorials with a brief description: Connecting a DSLR or Camcorder to an External Mic – …
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Lesson of the Week: Why BD-Rate is a Poor Predictor of Real-World Bandwidth Savings
LCEVC Excels in Full Ladder Live Use Case Testing
Pleased to announce my second report on LCEVC Technology entitled LCEVC x264 Report: Live Sports & eGames, ABR Ladder. The first report assessed VOD performance at 1080p; this report tested live performance using a full encoding ladder and weighted average performance as well as BD-Rate comparisons. Here’s the Table of Contents. Note, in particular, the GB Tech report in the …
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My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week of Virtual Presenting
So, here I am, just about to launch a course on webinars and live video production (now launched), and I experience the worst two virtual presentations ever. In this blog, I’ll share the gory details and let you know how you (perhaps) can avoid the same fate. All that said, this is more a writer’s self-therapy for me than learning …
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Webinar: Video Codecs in 2021 and Beyond with Jan Ozer
I was honored to present a free webinar entitled Video Codecs in 2021 and Beyond with Muvi on April 8, 2021. The slides and recording are below. Here’s the description. There has never been a time where so many video codecs were available (or soon to be available) for video producers. From MPEG, we have AVC (H.264), HEVC (H.265), VVC …
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Video on Best Practices for Delivering Live Video to Geographically Distributed Viewers
How to Reduce Encoding Time by Up to 40% With Negligible Quality Loss
Reducing the reference frame setting from 16 to 1 when using x.264’s veryslow preset decreased encoding time by 46% on ten 2-minute test files while dropping the average VMAF score from 96.06 to 95.97, a decrease of less than .001. If you used the Medium preset, at the default setting of 3 reference frames, changing to ref=1 would drop encoding …
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