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November, 2009

  • 25 November

    Shooting for streaming – top 5 tips

    Just because you have a fancy 3CCD camcorder doesn’t mean you know how to shoot for streaming, but this article in AV Technology will help you get started. I hope you find it useful.

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  • 23 November

    Sorenson Squeeze 6 quality analysis up on Digital Content Producer website

    My Squeeze 6 quality and performance review just appeared on the Digital Content Producer site. I looked at both Windows Media and H.264 quality, but not VP6 because Squeeze couldn't meet my data rate targets. More on that here. To see the rev

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  • 23 November

    If you’re creating any customer testimonials, you need to know about this

    Talk about something that totally blindsides you – the FTC has apparently decided to start policing customer testimonials and the like. Here’s a snippet from the FTC website. Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience with a product or service as typical when that is not the case will be required to …

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  • 21 November

    Upload Videos To Multiple Video Sharing Sites

    So, you’ve got some videos made and you want to get them out there as fast and efficiently as possible. That means you probably want some tools to upload them to multiple video sites automatically right? Right! Here’s some of the coolest tools we found that will help you do just that, and in a hurry. Great article of this …

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  • 20 November

    Interesting video on viewing analytics

    The type and amount of statistics and analytics provided by an OVP is a critical selection criteria. Veeple is an OVP that features clickable hotspots in the video. Here's a short (under 3 minutes) video of Veeple's viewing analytics that I found

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  • 20 November

    Reflections from StreamingMedia West

    Just back from StreamingMedia West, it was a great, high energy show. I just posted a lengthy article on my reflections from the show on the main site, here.

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  • 19 November

    The skinny on Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming

    Digital Content Producer just published an article that I wrote explaining the basics of Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming to the iPhone/iTouch platform, both how the technology works and your implementation options. I think that streaming to this platform will become essential over the next 12 to 18 months, as mobile viewership increases. For example (as the article states), 10% of …

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  • 18 November

    Live Event Presentation at Streaming Media West

    Here's the handout for my live event streaming presentation at StreamingMedia West.

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  • 17 November

    Top tips for improving streaming video quality

    I'm at StreamingMedia West in San Jose about to go into a session on improving your streaming video quality - my top tips. I'm attaching the presentation to this short post for those who attended and others interested in the topic.I hope you find the

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  • 17 November

    How to demo to the press

    Long day of demos at Streaming Media West. All very interesting, some suboptimal from the standpoint of effectiveness, so while I’m waiting for the Tiramisu I had after dinner to function like organic Ambien, I thought that I would write down some tips for sales and marketing types to consider before their next product demos. By way of background, I …

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