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New Online Video Platform Comparison Service

I'm very bullish on Online Video Platforms (OVPs) as a substitute for internal infrastructure for video streaming. They simplify encoding, reduce capital expenditures and development costs, provide a superior distribution platform for your videos via

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Sorenson Squeeze 6

Sorenson Media recently released Squeeze 6. Here's a screencam review that I produced for Millimeter magazine. In a couple of weeks, I'll post a written article on Millimeter comparing encoding quality and performance of Squeeze 6 with previous vers

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A quick shout-out for Google Documents

Google Documents is a free service from Google that includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. If you have a Google mail account, you can access these apps, enter data online and then access it from anywhere. You can also

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Streaming Video Capture Tools

Streaming producers don’t work in a vacuum, and one of the best ways to understand the best practices of other publishers on the web is to download and analyze the streaming files that they produce. I capture streaming videos a lot,

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Better buy 64-bit systems from here on out

I got an interesting e-mail from Adobe today, which I've pasted in its entirety below. The key message is this:"Adobe today confirmed that ... Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Adobe After Effects CS4 are the last versions to support 32-bit operating sy

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Presentations at Streaming Media Europe

I've been in London at Streaming Media Europe and gave two presentations which I've attached below. Here are the descriptions from the program.   Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download   This semin

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