I’m pleased to announce my new course, Mastering the Adobe Media Encoder CC: An Online Course, …
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New Udemy Review: “Great Introductory Course”
My online course, Video Compression for Web, Disc and PC/TV/Console Playback has been live on Udemy for …
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Last week, at my session Producing a Webcast from Soup to Nuts at Streaming Media …
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Last week at Streaming Media East, I held 2 three-hour sessions (parts 1 & 2) …
Read More »A Buyer’s Guide to Field Encoders 2014
So you’re streaming a live event at some off-site location and you’re wondering what hardware or software to buy to encode the video to send to your streaming server. Well, you’re in the right place, because that’s the subject
Read More »The Codecs That Make UHD Video Possible: HEVC Vs. VP9
There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I wanted to take this opportunity to update the st
Read More »Review: Vidizmo EnterpriseTube
Let me be up front about this. Vidizmo EnterpriseTube is the first corporate YouTube product that I’ve reviewed. So if you’re looking for a comparative analysis detailing how the product stacks up with other options, this, unfortunately,
Read More »Apple Changes Encoding Recommendations for HLS
From my perspective, Apple Technical Note TN2224 is the Rosetta Stone of adaptive streaming, a document that translates multiple factors into concrete recommendations that should be considered by all producers streaming to Apple Devices. Which is to
Read More »Producing and Deploying HEVC-Handout and Sample Files
Here’s the description: This session explores the current status of HEVC, identifying existing and announced …
Read More »Much Video Processing Performance Boost Do the Latest PC Processors Deliver?
Back in 2009, when HP shipped new workstations powered by the Nehalem line of CPUs, the performance boost was so significant that they instantly rendered obsolete workstations based upon previous architectures. Now that Intel has launched Ivy Bridge-
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