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Roundtrip Audio Editing Workflow: Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition CS5.5

One of my favorite features in Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 is the return of Adobe Audition. In this tutorial, I detail the round trip editing workflow between Premiere Pro and Audition. Roundtrip Audio Editing Workflow: Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition CS5.5 from EventDV on Vimeo.

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Book Excerpt: Streaming Vs. Progressive Download Vs. Adaptive Streaming

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 …

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H264 vs MPEG-2 Quality

I recently produced a webinar for Broadcast Engineering Magazine where I compared the quality of the same test footage encoded using the H.264 and MPEG-2 codecs. Since most production encoding in the broadcast space is live, I used encoding using constant bit rate encoding and limited both codecs to the Main profile, since not all playback devices support the high …

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Resources for Sonic Foundry Webcast

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)

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What’s New in the Adobe Media Encoder CS5.5 Video

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 …

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Encoding for Adaptive Streaming

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.

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Download Slides for How to: Encoding for HTML5

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.

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Download Slides from Encoding for Flash, Mobile and HTML5 Workshop

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.

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Encoding for iDevices

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.

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Video Quality of UGC and Inexpensive OVP Sites

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: …

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