Streaming Learning Center Where Streaming Professionals Learn to Excel
Like old-time alchemists who turned base metals into gold, Elemental Technologies, Inc. converts industry-standard CPUs and GPUs into the hottest H.264 on-demand encoding box I’ve tested, with incomparable speed and quality that matches the bes
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May, 2012
April, 2012
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22 April
Live From J Street, Part 3: Monitoring Webcast Audio
In this final segment of this series on the JStreet Making History convention webcast, we'll examine one aspect of webcast production that too often gets ignored: monitoring and controlling audio volume, which becomes a complex issue as speakers chan
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17 April
H.264 in a Mobile World: Adios to the Main and High Profiles?
Now that mobile devices are such an important target for most producers, does it make sense to start encoding all H.264 footage using the Baseline profile? From the tests that I performed this week, encoding all footage using this profile might save encoding and storage resources with minimal loss in quality. Gosh, it’s hard to remember a time when we …
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14 April
Two Years In: Are We Really Better Off Without Flash on Our iPads?
Love it, hate it, however you look at it, two years after its initial introduction, iPad owners still don’t get the same experience as Flash-based desktops. So Bubba Watson was in a playoff at the Masters with Louis Oosthuizen. Fate conspired against me, and I was pulled away from the TV on the second playoff hole. I returned to see …
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12 April
Adobe Premiere Pro CS6: An Essential Upgrade
So, Adobe announced that it will showcase Production Premium Creative Suite 6 at NAB prior to its official release sometime in the first half of 2012. What’s in it for you and me? Well, I worked on my first job with the beta and received a brie
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12 April
Livestream: No Computer Required
While most live streaming service providers offer software encoders that integrate tightly with their service, Livestream is the first to offer a standalone H.264 hardware encoder that operates without a computer connection and can transmit via 3G/4G
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4 April
Live from J Street, Part 2: Framing Tips for Conference Shooters and Webcasters
Jan Ozer passes on several key tips on framing panels and applying the rule of thirds (and when to break it) gleaned from his recent gig webcasting the national J Street conference on Israeli-Palestinian relations.
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March, 2012
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30 March
Blackmagic H.264 Pro Recorder: High Quality, Frustrating Limits
Blackmagic Design's H.264 Pro Recorder ($499) performs a small set of functions reasonably well, including archiving footage to H.264 format at its native resolution and producing H.264 files for Apple TV, the iPad/iPhone 4, and uploading to YouTube
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28 March
Live from J Street, Part 1: Webcasting the National J Street Conference
I've produced multiple webcasts, but they've been primarily small events produced locally, usually as a volunteer or to provide a testbed for video switching or encoding-related projects. When I was contacted by Brendon Winters, a principal of Event
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28 March
Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5 Released for Kindle
If you’ve been waiting to pick up my book Video Compression for Flash, Apple Devices and HTML5 until it’s available in digital format, wait no more. The book is available for Kindle and you can find it here for $19.99, a savings of about $10.00 over the print edition.
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