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No one knows at this point, but I did learn a thing or two at Streaming Media West. By way of background, most authorities agree that there will be royalties on encoders and decoders, just like H.264. However, I was thinking that there might be royalties on free Internet content encoded with HEVC, as well. Two authorities who knew more …

The VLC Player is one of the few programs I have on virtually all computers in my office, because it’s free, it runs on Macs and Windows, and plays almost every format, including H.264 and now H.265. Which is great, because I’ve just started to experiment with HEVC and it’s great to have a player that supports it besides DivX. …

Audio problems are a fact of life for video producers, and I’m always in the hunt for the best tool possible. After comparing iZotope RX 3 vs. Audition, I concluded that iZotope is better for both pop and click removal and noise reduction. You can see screens and hear audio comparisons for declipping and crackle-and-pop removal, here. You can see …

This review is up on the Streaming Media website. Let’s save us both a lot of time. If you’re looking for the cheapest cloud encoding service for low-volume production quantities, skip to the next article; Elemental Cloud isn’t for you. On the other hand, if you’re a high-volume producer seeking the ability to acquire secure, dedicated cloud resources capable of …

This review of YouTube Live recently appeared on www.streamingmedia.com. It’s a good overview of how the system works and my experience with it. I recently produced a webinar on YouTube Live using Telestream Wirecast, and wanted to document the experience. This isn’t a full, bang-it-till-it-breaks comparative review, it’s more of a CliffsNotes pictorial of what’s available and how to use …

This Streaming Media article explores the difference between live streaming service providers like Livestream and YouTube Live and webcasting services like Onstream and MediaPlatform. Here’s the intro. I recently kicked off six streaming-specific webinars. My motivation? To sell copies of my new book. Rather than market through book reviews and bloggers, I decided to reach out directly to potential buyers …

This review is up on the Streaming Media website. Here’s the introduction. Onstream Media’s webcasting service provides a soup-to-nuts system for broadcasting PowerPoint slides and talking-head video to a computer-based or mobile audience, with interactive elements such as Q&A, polling, and surveys, with registration facilities at the front end and analytics at the back end. The system can automatically transcode …

This tutorial is up on the Streaming Media website. Here’s the intro. Connecting your camcorder to an external microphone or soundboard is a critical skill for any event or corporate videographer, though it can be surprisingly challenging, making it an exercise best performed well in advance of the actual live event. In this article, I’ll walk you through the process, …

Any time you produce a webinar that includes PowerPoint and a talking head video, it’s nice to present both in the same video frame. In this tutorial, I’ll how how you accomplish that in Telestream Wirecast. Click here to view the tutorial on Streaming Media Producer, which has an annotated transcript of the procedure.

Squeeze 9 is a great tool for creating HTML5 compatible videos with the HTML code necesssary for both HTML5 playback and fallback to Flash. This tutorial explains how. Click here to view the Streaming Media article with an annotated transcript of the video.