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HDR Resources on Streaming Media

  If you’re interested in learning about HDR production, check out three articles on the Streaming Media website. Blackest Blacks: Ten Things to Know About Producing HDR. The feature story details what HDR is and how to produce. Love the catchy teaser (which I didn’t write). “Shake your viewers all night long with the best-looking high dynamic range video imaginable. …

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Download Free Chapter on HEVC from FFmpeg Book

Below you can download a sample chapter of my new book, Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg in 30 Minutes or Less. It’s Chapter 12 Encoding HEVC, and I’m making it available for free for two reasons. First and most important, the HEVC-related content in my other book, Video Encoding by the Numbers, is flat out wrong. So if you have the Video …

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Adobe Kills Title Utility in Premiere Pro; Take a Deep Breath; It’s OK

Just back from Streaming Media East where I was interviewed by Tim Siglin on Facebook Live about my new book. I downloaded the video file from Facebook and wanted to create a quick excerpt, but Premiere Pro crashed twice during my initial edits, so I updated to the newest release. That fixed the crashes, but when I tried to insert …

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