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January, 2011

  • 13 January

    Google Removes H.264 Codec From Chrome

    This is an excerpt from my commentary, “Welcome to the Two-Codec World,” which you can read at StreamingMedia.com. Back when Google closed on the On2 acquisition, I wrote a blog post entitled Google Closes On2 Acquisition – Better check your Wallet. The wallet reference related to the fact that Google donating VP8 to the open source cause could boost the …

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  • 2 January

    New article on Producing for Adaptive Streaming at StreamingMedia.com

    An article that I wrote on producing for adaptive streaming just posted at StreamingMedia.com. The article focuses on nitty gritty encoding details, like data rates, key frame intervals and the like. To write the article, I spoke with multiple producers, including MTV, Turner Broadcasting, Harvard and the Microsoftie in charge of NBC’s Olympics and Sunday Night Football streaming video offerings. …

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December, 2010

  • 31 December

    Streaming Spotlight: Peter Scott, Turner Sports

    The VP of emerging media for Turner Sports talks about the network's delivery of the PGA Championship online, as well as the benefits of HTTP streaming and the implications of HTML5 video

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  • 27 December

    Adobe Provides Adaptive Streaming Presets for Adobe Media Encoder

    Adaptive streaming is a hot topic for most streaming producers. If you produce your files with Adobe Media Encoder, you should know that Adobe has provided seven downloadable presets that you can use as a starting point. Click here to go to the download page.   You install the presets by manually copying them into your presets folder (a PDF …

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  • 22 December

    Vimeo and YouTube Enable iPad-compatible HTML5 Embedding

    I use Vimeo to host all the videos that I have on this site. Originally, Vimeo used only a Flash-comptible player that wouldn’t play on iDevices. Here’s an example of that player, which will appear on your computer, but not your iPad or iPhone. Now, Vimeo has a new embed code that is HTML5 compatible and will play on my …

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  • 11 December

    SLC Completes Successful Year of Streaming Consulting

    US Government Contracts and Streaming Media Conferences Dominate the Lineup During 2010, the Streaming Learning Center produced ten separate training experiences in the US and abroad, showcasing the organization’s ability to produce custom training focused on streaming production, Final Cut Pro workflows and streaming encoding. The efforts included ten days of primarily on site training for four US government offices, …

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  • 9 December

    SLC Completes Successful Year of Streaming Consulting

    US Government Contracts and Streaming Media Conferences Dominate the Lineup During 2010, the Streaming Learning Center produced ten separate training experiences in the US and abroad, showcasing the organization’s ability to produce custom training focused on streaming production, Final Cut Pro workflows and streaming encoding. The efforts included ten days of primarily on site training for four US government offices, …

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  • 8 December

    One Click Rich Media Websites from Adobe Encore

    If you’re producing DVDs or Blu-ray discs with Adobe Encore, you probably know that you can easily convert the authored DVD to a Flash project that you can upload to a web site. If you don’t know, or if you don’t work with Adobe Encore, read on – you might find a very useful technique for getting client approvals or …

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  • 7 December

    SLC Instructs on Streaming at NASA’s Glenn Research Center

    December 3, 2010 – Title pretty much says it all, along with the picture on the left – just there in the back you can see a hanger with the Glenn Research Center sign. The actual client was not NASA – it was Wyle Information Systems, who performs video services onsite for NASA. The training was produced in conjunction with …

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  • 7 December

    Adobe Revs Premiere Pro CS5 – Notebook Editors Rejoice!

    This one is short and sweet – here’s the email I just got from Adobe. If you have a notebook computer, or either of the newly supported graphics cards, check it out. Adobe released an update to Premiere Pro CS5, version 5.0.3, which extends the power of the Mercury Playback Engine’s GPU acceleration to laptop users. Additionally, the update provides: …

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