Total Webcasting is a webcasting service provider out of New York that produces dozens of events a month, and thousands since its inception in 2007. Total Webcasting is unique in that it produces virtually all events for its customers, while owning the streaming server and content management system used for live and on-demand delivery, providing the complete “glass-to-glass” experience. Through their …
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HEVCAdvance Issues HEVC Royalty Schedule With Content Royalties
HEVCAdvance is the second HEVC patent group comprised of GE, Technicolor, Mitsubishi, Philips, and Dolby, which I wrote about in detail for Streaming Media in New HEVC Patent Pool: What Are the Implications? Last week, the group issues a proposed royalty schedule to much negative fanfare. Here’s the schedule for hardware for Region 1, which includes most developed countries. Region …
Read More »Webinar Production: How To Look and Sound Like a Pro in Eight Easy Lessons
I’m producing a free webinar with Onstream Media on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST. Here’s the description: While business use of video in webinars and videoconferencing is skyrocketing, few users have had any kind of media training, and subpar audio or video quality can often derail or diminish the desired benefits of the video presentation. Fortunately, in …
Read More »Using Objective and Subjective Quality Tests
Here's a column that talks about the requirement to perform both objective and subjective testing when evaluating different encoding techniques or comparing codecs. Here's the first paragraph. I spend a lot of time assessing video quality, sometimes
Read More »Review: Bitcodin, a Cloud Video Encoding Service From Bitmovin
Bitmovin is an Austrian company that supplies both a cloud encoder (bitcodin) and an HTML5 player (Bitdash). It offers an all-in-one service to companies seeking to encode and distribute files via HTML5 to computers and mobile devices. I reviewed the
Read More »Choosing a Streaming Appliance
In the market for a streaming appliance? In this article that just posted on streamingmedia.com, I review the factors to consider when choosing a live streaming appliance with a budget of around $10,000. The base requirements for the systems I discus
Read More »Free Webinar: Best Practices for Enterprise Video Presentations
Thursday, July 16th 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT Organizations across all industries are increasing their use of video for communications, training and collaboration. As this adoption grows, employees and executives must focus on how to create the highest quality live and on-demand presentations. If your company is webcasting CEO town halls for a global workforce, training sessions for departmental updates …
Read More »Choosing a Workstation for Editing, Encoding, or Analysis? Check out the HP Z840
Though cameras get most of the hype and headlines for video producers, workstations are where the rubber meets the road, helping us meet our deadlines and get our work done during normal (or mostly normal) business hours. Recently, I put the new HP Z840 through its paces, and in three separate reviews, discussed its performance for video editing, streaming encoding, …
Read More »Producing Live Events: Tip 7: You’re In Charge of Marketing, Even When You’re Not
Total Webcasting is a webcasting service provider out of New York that produces dozens of events a month, and thousands since its inception in 2007. Total Webcasting is unique in that it produces virtually all events for its customers, while owning the streaming server and content management system used for live and on-demand delivery, providing the complete “glass-to-glass” experience. Through their …
Read More »Webinar Technique:Cash is King-How to Retain Your Attendee’s Attention During a Webinar
I attended a great webinar yesterday, entitled What Converts? Building Landing Pages that Evoke Action. The two speakers were Kim Albee, a content marketing and sales expert from ContentZap, and Margaret Johnson, from Genoo, who provides an online marketing platform. I wasn’t aware of either company or person before I received the invitation, but since I sell books and consulting services from …
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