My first foray into digital video, circa 1994, went like this: I hired
a professional crew to film a tutorial on video compression. The set
they designed featured a rosewood desk against a gray fabric background
decorated with plants, and graduate
If you’re producing a live streaming event, you have three choices when it comes to encoding: You can hire out the work, buy a streaming appliance, or build your own streaming encoder. If you choose the third approach and want to stream HD H.264 video via Flash, Kulabyte’s XStream Live 2.1 Flash video encoder needs…
DetailsWithout question, lighting is the single most important
determinant of streaming quality. Shoot a well lit scene with a consumer
camcorder, or a poorly lit scene with the latest HD wonder with 2/3” CCDs, and
the consumer camcorder wi
how to limit motion during shooting and editing to improve streaming quality
DetailsThis video presents the new features in Apple Compressor 3.5, including new templates, enhanced Droplets, Job Actions and the ability to auto-detect settings from files dragged into the settings window.
DetailsEarlier this week, I posted a column relating to Silverlight observations made while teaching a seminar at Stanford. My colleague, Stefan Richter, posted a snippet of the column on his site, www.flashcomguru.com, a premiere learning site for Flash de
DetailsI produce a lot of screencams and other narration-type recordings, and workstation noise is a constant concern. I also have multiple computers around my office, most off testing some software program or rendering some project. While “cacophony” is definitely too strong a word to apply, less noise is always good. For this reason, I was…
DetailsBy now you know that Apple has launched an update to Final Cut Studio. I got an early look last week. The new version will cost $999, a reduction in price of $300. If you own any previous version of Final Cut Pro—even version 1, insisted the product manager in our meeting—you can upgrade to…
DetailsApple recently released Final Cut Pro 7 and I was fortunate enough to
have an advance copy, from which I’ve produced the feature overview
screencam that you’ll see if you click this link. For more information
on Final Cut Studio, you can read my f
For VP6 and H.264 encoding, Telestream’s Episode Engine is fast and
produces equal or better quality than most other streaming encoders.
For those producing shiny optical discs, MPEG-2 performance and quality
is also quite good. However, Win
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