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Dicas produces the H.264 codec used by Telestream in most (if not all) of their encoding products, including Episode Pro and Episode Engine. On June 11, 2009, Dicas announced a new quality enhancing algorithm called dicasVICO that the company clai
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July, 2009
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5 July
Video tutorial: producing H.264 video for Flash Distribution with Apple Compressor
This video tutorial details how to use Apple Compressor to produce H.264 video files for Flash distribution. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. First, the project involved a concer
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2 July
Producing Screencams that Market and Sell
Screencams are a wonderful tool for demonstrating software operation. In many cases, producing them can almost be a real-time event—you capture and narrate simultaneously, import the result into Camtasia Studio, add titles and such, export t
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2 July
Encoding Screencams: Codecs and Techniques
In Producing Screencams that Market and Sell, I described how to script, record, and edit a screencam presentation for fun or profit. In this article, I’ll detail which codec does the best job compressing screencams for internet delivery, wh
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1 July
The Moving Picture: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About H.264 but Were Afraid to Ask
I recently taught an H.264-specific class at Streaming Media East in New York. Though the class was 3 hours long, I can distill a bunch of useful knowledge into this column if you don’t mind missing the sample videos and example screens, not to mention the insightful and surprisingly compelling lecture. Let’s begin. H.264 is today’s “it” codec because it …
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June, 2009
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29 June
Video tutorial: Understanding the critical H.264 encoding options
This short (under 10-minute) PowerPoint-based tutorial details how to configure the most important H.264 encoding parameters (profiles, levels, entropy encoding and b-frames), discusses why H.264 encoding quality varies by encoding tool and identif
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29 June
Peer Review: The Wine Library
This is a peer review of streaming video produced by the Wine Library, written as a sidebar to a feature story by StreamingMedia.com. Here's the intro:As you’ve read in Troy Dreier's feature, the Wine Library's producer and star, Gary Vaynerch
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28 June
Test Drive: Apple Mac Pro, Part 1
When some people get a powerful new computer, they want to produce a new video, play games, or show it off to their friends. I just want to run as many tests as possible to analyze its performance, which I guess means that I’m well suited for this portion of my job description. This navel-gazing aside, …
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24 June
Video advertising is more effective than Flash animations or simple images
If you're looking for hard data that proves the effectiveness of video advertising over other rich meda formats, look no further. A new Doubleclick study entitled "The Brand Value of Rich Media and Video Ads" found that rich media ads containing vide
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22 June
Video tutorial: producing H.264 video for Flash Distribution with Sorenson Squeeze
This is the second in a series of video tutorials on producing H.264, in this case detailing how to do so using Sorenson Squeeze. Here's some background information explaining some of the encoding decisions made in the tutorial. First, the
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