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Three Five-Star Reviews on Amazon for Mastering Webcam Book

Some early book reviews for Mastering Webcam and Smartphone Video are in on Amazon, and they’re all good. Thank goodness! The first Ken commented, “The tips and picture comparisons due to production circumstances are great. This book will be introduced to my University Digital Media Editing class in the Fall ’15 semester. It’s good to see a book in sync with the …

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Download Sample Chapters of Mastering Webcam Book

Thanks for your interest in Mastering Webcam and Smartphone Video: How to Look and Sound Great in Webinars and Videoconferences. Click the book on your left to download the sample chapters. The download contains two chapters: • The Quick Start chapter, the first in the book, which identifies five quick ways to up the video and audio quality of your …

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Choosing the Number of Renditions and Encoding Sets

I recently received an email inquiry that asked, “on average for multiple devices, how many different renditions/encoding sets do you recommend?” The answer was complex enough that I figured I would answer it in a blog post.  There are multiple interlocking considerations, as you would suspect. Let’s start with Quality and Compatibility. Quality and Compatibility  1. The starting point for …

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