Video lessons

October, 2021

• 21 October

  How to Set Exposure with your Camcorder and DLSR

  

  This tutorial teaches you how to set exposure and white balance on your camcorder and DSLR for live and on-demand video production. This article was derived from a lesson in my Live Streaming Bootcamp course, which teaches you the skills and techniques that optimize the quality of your webinars and …

July, 2021

• 25 July

  Speech-to-text In Premiere Pro – Fast, Easy, Accurate, and Free

  

  This video tutorial teaches you how to convert speech-to-text in Premiere Pro. I’ve been using Premiere Pro for more years than I care to think about, and most recent new features, as you’d expect with a mature product, are incremental. This new speech-to-text feature is absolutely an exponential addition that’s …

June, 2021

• 25 June

  Real-World Bandwidth Savings from VP9, HEVC, and AV1

  

  This article is about a video lesson that computes the bandwidths savings afforded by the FFmpeg-based implementations of VP9 (libvpx-VP9), H.264 (x264), HEVC (x265), and AV1 (libaom-AV1). The lesson uses the Netflix convex hull analysis to build unique encoding ladders for each test clip and codec and shows why BD-Rate …

May, 2021

• 6 May

  Lesson of the Week: What’s the Optimal Data Rate for Mezzanine Files?

  

April, 2021

• 24 April

  Lesson of the Week: Why BD-Rate is a Poor Predictor of Real-World Bandwidth Savings

  

March, 2021

• 2 March

  Lesson of the Week: Per-Title Encoding in 6.2 Dimensions