Streaming Learning Center Where Streaming Professionals Learn to Excel
In the first installment for this month, I looked at Telestream’s new Episode Pro for Windows, detailing the interface, I/O, and preview function. This time out, we’ll look at encoding quality, performance, and compatibility. Let’s jump right in with Blu-ray and DVD. Figure 1. MPEG-2 encoding parameters in Telestream Episode Pro. DVD/Blu-ray Episode Pro offers only two Blu-ray presets—one for …
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May, 2009
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16 May
Squeeze 5.1’s H.264 Encoding Quality Dramatically Improved
In addition to the deinterlacing issue discussed here, Squeeze 5.0 also suffered two H.264 encoding problems. One related to very ugly key frames like those shown in Figure 1. On the left, you see the poor quality frames incident to Squeeze 5.0. S
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15 May
Sorenson Boosts Squeeze 5.1’s Deinterlacing Quality
If you work with interlaced source footage, the quality of your deinterlacing filter is one of the key components to final compressed quality. Unfortunately for Sorenson Squeeze users, the quality of Squeeze's deinterlacing filters prior to version 5
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15 May
Deep Thoughts on Producing Marketing Videos
I recently gave a half-day seminar to the greater Wisconsin chapter of the Media Communications Association—International, and I devoted the last hour to creating effective marketing videos for businesses and other organizations. In pulling
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13 May
Streaming Media East Presentations
I just got back from a wonderful trip to Streaming Media East, where I gave two presentations. The first was a 3 hour session on producing H.264 video, here's the agenda. In particular, note the comparisons of H.264 codecs, which you'll find he
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4 May
Streaminglearningcenter Announces Summer Courses at Stanford and Harvard
Galax, VA- Streaming Learning Center announces two one-week streaming production courses to be taught by Jan Ozer of streaminglearningcenter.com and produced by Digital Media Academy. The two hands-on courses, to be held at Stanford U
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1 May
Nielson report details increasing online video usage and impact on advertising
It's been impossible not to notice the increase in the number of internet video viewers and the increased length of time they spend watching. Still, a look at the actual numbers, and the impact on advertising, is profound. You can learn all about thi
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April, 2009
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28 April
Hewlett Packard’s Nehalem-based Z400 and Z800 speed encoding performance
On March 30, 2009, Hewlett Packard announced three new workstations that leverage Intel’s new Nehalem line of CPUs. To assess the significance of these new computers to the streaming market, I tested two Nehalem-based systems against
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27 April
Test Drive: Intel Nehalem, Part 2
Welcome back to our presentation of how HP’s new Intel Nehalem-based workstations compare to older workstations when rendering from Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4). Briefly, in the last installment, I detailed the tests that I performed, and discussed the results for DV and HDV source materials. This time out, I present the results for DVCPRO HD, AVCHD, and Red and share how the Z400 and Z800 performed with Hyper-threaded …
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22 April
Marketing with Video
In April, 2009, I gave a half day seminar before the Greater Wisconsin Chapter of the Media Communications Associates, International. I spent the fourth hour describing how video is being used by organizations to market their products and
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