All’s been quite on the Streaming
Learning Center
front as I spent the last week teaching several courses on streaming media
production and encoding at the lovely Stanford Campus at Palo Alto. Other than a quick sneak peak at
the ne
By now you’ve heard that there’s a new version of Final Cut Studio shipping from Apple, aptly called “the New Final Cut Studio.” What’s new? Well, it starts with a new price of $999, $300 less than Final Cut Studio 2. You can upgrade to the new suite from any previous version, even Final Cut…
DetailsApple released the new Final Cut Studio today; what’s in it for streaming producers? Some nice workflow improvements, especially for producers of short-form content; for producers of long-form content, though, objects in the mirror may not be as close as they appear. More on that below. In terms of more mainstream uses, the big news…
DetailsThis video tutorial details how to use Telestream Episode Pro to produce H.264 video files for Flash distribution.
DetailsIf you bought a camcorder ten years ago, chances were it was
DV and stored its video on DV tape. Three years ago, it was likely HDV and DV
tape. Today, it could be any one of five or six HD formats (AVCHD, HDV, DVCPRO
HD, XDCAM HD, AVC-Int
Over the next two or three years, streaming producers will
be increasingly tasked supplying optimized video streams to devices as
disparate as cell phones and set top boxes, along with different quality
versions for users accessing the con
Dicas produces the H.264 codec used by Telestream in most (if not all)
of their encoding products, including Episode Pro and Episode Engine.
On June 11, 2009, Dicas announced a new quality enhancing algorithm called
dicasVICO that the company clai
This video tutorial details how to use Apple Compressor to produce H.264 video files for Flash distribution. Here’s some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. First, the project involved a concer
DetailsScreencams are a wonderful tool for demonstrating software operation.
In many cases, producing them can almost be a real-time event—you
capture and narrate simultaneously, import the result into Camtasia
Studio, add titles and such, export t
In Producing Screencams that Market and Sell, I described
how to script, record, and edit a screencam presentation for fun or
profit. In this article, I’ll detail which codec does the best job
compressing screencams for internet delivery, wh