October, 2011

• 7 October

  New Review Calls Ozer Book a Home Run

  Or, to be precise, the reviewer, Sundiata Cowels, say that I “hit the ball out of the park” (which won’t fit in a headline). Here’s the opening paragraph: The passing of Hurricane Irene (and the resultant power loss for five days) gave me ample time to catch up on my reading (by candle light no less). Streaming Media guru Jan …

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• 5 October

  Introduction to Live Streaming Webinar Now Available Online

  It’s free, of course. Here’s the description from the event: Live event streaming is one of those value-added functions that looks harder than it actually is. As such, event streaming represents a great opportunity to add a high profit-margin, easy-to-produce service that clients are more than willing to pay extra for. This seminar will introduce attendees to live event streaming. …

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• 1 October

  Lessons from Summer Vacation and Emptying the Dishwasher

  I don’t expect folks to come to this blog for career advice, but some lessons learned watching two of my kids avoid chores over their summer break fostered some thoughts worth sharing. I don’t know about your kids, but when it comes to mine and chores, the two who were home this summer will argue for 20 minutes to avoid …

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September, 2011

• 30 September

  Free Webinar – Introduction to Live Event Streaming

  Tuesday, October 4, 2:00 – 3:00 PM EST I know it’s late, but if you’re free, check out this seminar that I’m producing with the MCA-I. Here’s the description: This seminar will introduce attendees to live event streaming. It will start by discussing the technologies underlying live event streaming, like codecs and formats, and how most live event platforms can …

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• 18 September

  Normalization and Compression in Adobe CS5.5

  Streaming viewers will tolerate some video degradation but expect audio to be near perfect. There are two techniques you can use to make sure that your audio loud, clear and robust. Normalization increases volume as much as possible without introducing distortion into the file, while compression makes the signal as robust as possible. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to …

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• 14 September

  Be Your Own Compression Consultant

  So. You’ve decided to add video to your website. Now it’s time to configure the streams.You’re either working with your own streaming server, or using an online video platform (OVP) that lets you configure your streams, so now you’re trying to figure out the best resolution, data rate and H.264 encoding parameters for your file or files. You could call …

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• 12 September

  RAM Requirements for Adobe CS5.5

  This article is the second of a series on configuring your Windows workstation for producing with Adobe CS 5.5. The focus of this particular article is the optimal RAM configuration for both a single CPU and dual CPU system for producing with Premiere Pro and Adobe Media Encoder. Figure 1. The HP Z400, our single CPU, 4/8-core contestant. As an …

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August, 2011

• 30 August

  Ozer Releases Online Training: Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan Ozer Streaming Learning Center 276-238-9135 [email protected] www.streaminglearningcenter.com   Ozer Releases Online Training: Producing Great Video with the Adobe Media Encoder New online training workshop helps Adobe CS5.5 producers efficiently encode top-quality video for streaming, iDevices and optical media Galax – August 30, 2011 – The Streaming Learning Center announces the immediate availability of a 3-hour training …

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• 30 August

  Perfecting Audio Quality in SoundTrack Pro

  In this free tutorial, you'll learn to remove background noise and pops and clicks in SoundTrack Pro, then apply normalization and compression.

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• 30 August

  Perfecting Audio Quality in Adobe Audition

  Here’s a tutorial on perfecting audio quality in Apple SoundTrack Pro (RIP) with the following agenda. The tutorial is from a training product that has been discontinued and uses an older version of Audition, though the functionality has not meaningfully changed since then, so the knowledge should transfer.  If you’d like to follow along with the action in the tutorial, …

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