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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 …

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 …

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)

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: …

This book is for anyone seeking to efficiently produce high quality video for streaming over the Internet or playing on Apple and other mobile devices. It provides detailed recommendations regarding which platforms to target and the appropriate configurations for producing streaming files and files for distributing via iTunes, with extensive comparisons of the most popular streaming encoding programs. It also discusses considerations for choosing whether to distribute video from your own site (or the Cloud) or whether to host your videos on user generated content sites or online video platforms. There’s a chapter on choosing the best tools and workflow for live event production, along with chapters detailing how to accelerate encoding on multiple-core workstations and LAN clusters and various tools for analyzing and debugging streaming video files.