October, 2009

• 30 October

  A quick shout-out for Google Documents

  Google Documents is a free service from Google that includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. If you have a Google mail account, you can access these apps, enter data online and then access it from anywhere. You can also

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• 29 October

  Darth Vader endorses the StreamingMedia Sourcebook

  I write for StreamingMedia Magazine, and one of their most useful issues is the StreamingMedia Sourcebook, a double issue with lots of "year in review" and "what to expect in the upcoming year" type articles. In this video, editor Eric Schumacher-

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• 26 October

  Streaming Video Capture Tools

  

  Streaming producers don’t work in a vacuum, and one of the best ways to understand the best practices of other publishers on the web is to download and analyze the streaming files that they produce. I capture streaming videos a lot,

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• 22 October

  Better buy 64-bit systems from here on out

  I got an interesting e-mail from Adobe today, which I've pasted in its entirety below. The key message is this:"Adobe today confirmed that ... Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 and Adobe After Effects CS4 are the last versions to support 32-bit operating sy

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• 15 October

  Presentations at Streaming Media Europe

  I've been in London at Streaming Media Europe and gave two presentations which I've attached below. Here are the descriptions from the program.   Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download   This semin

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• 5 October

  Pre-MAX News: Flash Player 10.1 Is A New Milestone

  Here's the first half of Stefan's article. OverviewI'm not quite sure where to start, but I'll have a try: Flash Player 10.1 can be labeled as a 'real' fully featured Flash Player for mobile. It contains a lot of optimisations as well as new APIs

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September, 2009

• 29 September

  Snow Leopard for Video Producers

  Apple's Snow Leopard is short of the usual bling that Apple ships with new operating systems, but for video producers, power users and others with multiple core computers, it's a very significant release -- if you don't mind waiting until software

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• 26 September

  Encoding in the Cloud

  As streaming media enters its second decade, it’s not all that often that we get to explore a totally new topic. But now we do, as I recently took my first look at cloud encoding. What is cloud encoding? At a high level, it’s an intern

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• 20 September

  Streaming Gets Smarter: Evaluating the Adaptive Streaming Technologies

  In its “2008 Consumer Panel Broadband Survey,” IDC reports that 25% of all participants can successfully download a 1,200Kbps file, while a startling 69% of all respondents can retrieve a 2,400Kbps file. If you’re a media or ente

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• 10 September

  Producing VP6 Video – What You Need to Know

  Though overshadowed by H.264 in the news, On2’s VP6 is still the most widely used streaming codec in the world today. In this short article, you’ll learn what you need to know to produce video using the On2 VP6 codec, including the

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