In the first installment for this month, I looked at Telestream’s new Episode Pro for Windows, detailing the interface, I/O, and preview function. This time out, we’ll look at encoding quality, performance, and compatibility. Let’s jump right in with Blu-ray and DVD. Figure 1. MPEG-2 encoding parameters in Telestream Episode Pro. DVD/Blu-ray Episode Pro offers…
DetailsIn addition to the deinterlacing issue discussed here, Squeeze 5.0 also
suffered two H.264 encoding problems. One related to very ugly key
frames like those shown in Figure 1. On the left, you see the poor
quality frames incident to Squeeze 5.0. S
If you work with interlaced source footage, the quality of your deinterlacing filter is one of the key components to final compressed quality. Unfortunately for Sorenson Squeeze users, the quality of Squeeze’s deinterlacing filters prior to version 5
DetailsI recently gave a half-day seminar to the greater Wisconsin chapter
of the Media Communications Association—International, and I devoted
the last hour to creating effective marketing videos for businesses and
other organizations. In pulling
I just got back from a wonderful trip to Streaming Media East, where I
gave two presentations. The first was a 3 hour session on producing
H.264 video, here’s the agenda.
In particular, note the comparisons of H.264 codecs, which you’ll find
he
Galax, VA- Streaming
Learning Center announces two
one-week streaming production courses to be taught by Jan Ozer of
streaminglearningcenter.com and produced by Digital Media Academy.
The two hands-on courses, to be held at Stanford U
It’s been impossible not to notice the increase in the number of internet video viewers and the increased length of time they spend watching. Still, a look at the actual numbers, and the impact on advertising, is profound. You can learn all about thi
DetailsOn 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…
DetailsIn 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
