September, 2009

• 8 September

  Silverlight: What you Need to Know

  Microsoft Silverlight has gained lots of recent attention as a platform for live event streaming applications, and soon may have sufficient penetration for other web sites to consider using. This article tells you what you need to know about Silve

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August, 2009

• 24 August

  H.264 for the Newbie

  A comment on one of my posts inspired this collection of H.264 resources for the Newbie. If you learn best by reading, check out Producing H.264 Video for Flash: An Overview, which is a general article that covers why H.264 is the "it" codec and the

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• 15 August

  Some things I’ve done on Final Cut Studio 3

  I was fortunate to get an early look at Apple's new Final Cut Pro 7, and wrote several articles that you might find of interest. Millimeter - Apple Final Cut Pro 7: First Look Review. A good overview of the key new features. StreamingMedia.com - Appl

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• 14 August

  Smooth Streaming – Silverlight’s Trojan Horse

  I’ve written before that most consumers couldn’t care less if Microsoft pulled the plug on Silverlight, primarily because from their view -- that of the user -- it does little that Flash can’t do. I know, I know, there’s lot o

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• 11 August

  Shooting for Streaming: Designing Your Set and Dressing Your Talent

  My first foray into digital video, circa 1994, went like this: I hired a professional crew to film a tutorial on video compression. The set they designed featured a rosewood desk against a gray fabric background decorated with plants, and graduate

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• 11 August

  Review: Kulabyte XStream Live 2.1

  If you’re producing a live streaming event, you have three choices when it comes to encoding: You can hire out the work, buy a streaming appliance, or build your own streaming encoder. If you choose the third approach and want to stream HD H.264 video via Flash, Kulabyte’s XStream Live 2.1 Flash video encoder needs to be on your short …

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• 10 August

  Lighting for Streaming

  Without question, lighting is the single most important determinant of streaming quality. Shoot a well lit scene with a consumer camcorder, or a poorly lit scene with the latest HD wonder with 2/3” CCDs, and the consumer camcorder wi

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• 4 August

  Shooting for Streaming – the Basics

  how to limit motion during shooting and editing to improve streaming quality

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• 2 August

  Apple Compressor 3.5 Screencam

  This video presents the new features in Apple Compressor 3.5, including new templates, enhanced Droplets, Job Actions and the ability to auto-detect settings from files dragged into the settings window.

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July, 2009

• 31 July

  Silverlight Counterpoint

  Earlier this week, I posted a column relating to Silverlight observations made while teaching a seminar at Stanford. My colleague, Stefan Richter, posted a snippet of the column on his site, www.flashcomguru.com, a premiere learning site for Flash de

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