Just finished watching an interesting video entitled Video Case Studies – Top 10 Tips, which was produced by UK video producer Aspect Film and Video. You can watch it here, though you may need to sign in first. The top ten tips were (drumroll please): 1. Structure – have customer identify business challenge, then action you took, then beneficial results. …

OK, being somewhat of a jerk here with the headline, but I’ve been pretty public in my thoughts that it’s time to transition from VP6 to H.264. Still, if you’re not ready for that move, perhaps you might want to rethink your current VP6 encoding parameters. If so, you might find this data, gleaned from multiple broadcast sites, useful. Hope …

Whenever I speak in public about streaming production, I try to back up my recommendations with file parameters gathered from prominent media and corporate sites. Here are some file statistics gathered for a series of sessions that I taught this spring and summer. Information from the first slide was gathered from about 50 corporate and media sites, which I divided …