Here are the handouts from my recent presesentation at Streaming Media West in LA. Here’s the description. Producing top-quality Web video involves multiple skills, including setting the scene (choosing your backgrounds, clothing, and positioning); lighting; shooting the video; scaling and preprocessing the video to the target resolution; and finally, encoding. This seminar illustrates each step with real-world examples and checklists …

Here are the handouts from my recent presesentation at Streaming Media West in LA. Here’s the description. Learn the technological fundamentals behind encoding for both H.264 and WebM formats. You’ll learn how to encode H.264 for HTML5 distribution and streaming to iOS and other mobile devices, as well as how to encode it for Flash, including live, on-demand, and RTMP, …

Doing some research for an upcoming presentation and stumbled upon this i5 advertisment from Intel. It’s one of the coolest videos that I’ve ever seen, weaving through real-life and cyberspace at a frantic pace. With over 2.7 million YouTube views, I’m certainly not the first to notice. Guaranteed to make you smile, and more importantly, rethink the concept of a …