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
Read More »Sorenson Squeeze 6 – A New Feature Overview
We’ve all heard about Sorenson Squeeze 6; this article contains an overview of the new …
Read More »Shooting for streaming – top 5 tips
From an article that I wrote in AV Technology that you can read here.
Read More »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
Read More »Darth Vader endorses the StreamingMedia Sourcebook
I write for StreamingMedia Magazine, and one of their most useful issues is the StreamingMedia Sourcebook, a double issue with lots of "year in review" and "what to expect in the upcoming year" type articles. In this video, editor Eric Schumacher-
Read More »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,
Read More »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
Read More »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
Read More »Pre-MAX News: Flash Player 10.1 Is A New Milestone
Here's the first half of Stefan's article. OverviewI'm not quite sure where to start, but I'll have a try: Flash Player 10.1 can be labeled as a 'real' fully featured Flash Player for mobile. It contains a lot of optimisations as well as new APIs
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