June, 2010

• 30 June

  SLC Helps Navy with Streaming Encoding

  June – 2010 – OK, it was just one department of the Navy – the Carderock Division in West Bethesda, Maryland. According to their web site, “Carderock Division is the principal Navy resource, national focal point and international leader in surface and undersea vehicle science, ship systems and related maritime technology. A major technical component of the Naval Sea Systems …

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• 24 June

  The Moving Picture: Apple Final Cut Studio vs. Adobe CS5 Production Premium

  The launch of Adobe CS5 brings to bear the obvious comparison with Final Cut Studio (FCS). Since life has been far too quiet lately, I decided to tackle this subject, but from the perspective of the totally new user, not the experienced user who would rather fight than switch. In other words, what would you say if a total newbie …

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• 23 June

  SLC Completes Streaming Related Training at the NIH

  June 23, 2010 – Just back from a day and 1/2 of streaming related training at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The Agency was transitioning from a Real Networks-based system over to Flash, and wanted a general introduction to Flash and current practices of streaming producers. Here’s the agenda, and you can download a detailed outline of …

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• 13 June

  Producing Video for the iPad

  In case you missed it (har, har), Apple shipped the iPad in early April. I think one of the best uses of the new device will be for video playback and photo display. In this column, I’ll discuss how to encode video for the iPad. What’s that you ask? Do I have one? Well, sure, certainly. What do I think? …

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• 13 June

  HP Z800 Workstation With Intel Westmere Dual Six-Core Processor Review

  In 2009, Intel launched its Nehalem line of workstations, which started with three models: the low-end Z400, the mid-range Z600, and the high-end Z800; later it was supplemented by the entry-level Z200. I had a look at the Z400, a single CPU quad-core, and the Z800, a dual-processor, quad-core system. Now HP is updating its workstation line to incorporate Intel’s …

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• 7 June

  New Survey Report about the Apple iPad and HTML5

  There’s been lots of hype about the iPad and HTML5 recently, but precious little hard information. A new survey-based report from StreamingMedia.com, entitled Supporting the iPad and HTML5 – Timing, Motivation, Costs and Scope, provides concrete data by detailing the plans of the 1,147 survey respondents regarding support for these platforms. The report also provides implementation data like content and …

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May, 2010

• 24 May

  Critical Issues for Enterprise Streaming Producers

  I gave a talk at StreamingMedia East in New York City earlier this month to a group of business executives assembled by California-based webcasting solution provider MediaPlatform. I was told that the execs were interested in “future directions of online video,” so I put together a talk entitled “In Your Chair, I’d Be Asking Myself …” The talk covered three …

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• 23 May

  Video Production for Streaming

  Here’s the PDF from a course on Streaming Production that I taught at StreamingMedia East. Here’s the agenda. I’ve included lots of useful stats, like H.264 encoding parameters used by some high profile web sites (shown below), and averages for high profile media and corporate sites (download PDF to view).

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• 23 May

  H264 Production Seminar

  Download the PDF handout for the H.264 Production seminar that I taught at StreamingMedia East. Here’s the agenda. Some fun slides on encoding for the iPad, which is surprisingly complex when you figure the available delivery techniques.

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• 20 May

  My First Live Webcast

  I produced my first live webcast on May 8, 2010. Like everything else, there were some huge lessons that didn’t become obvious until I was there in the chair, broadcasting live. If you’ve got your first live webcast coming up, perhaps you’ll find them useful By way of background, this was an event sponsored by Grayson Landcare, a “community-based group …

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