Streaming Learning Center Where Streaming Professionals Learn to Excel
A few months ago, I ran some Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) benchmarks on different computers that isolated how CS4 performed with formats ranging from DV to Red. Now that Intel’s Nehalem processor is upon us, those numbers are obsolete, so I’m updating them with results from two Nehalem-based workstations that I’ve been testing. In this installment, I’ll explain the tests and share DV and …
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June, 2009
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6 June
How streaming video can improve product sales – a user study
I found this snippet on the Really Practical Marketing website. It's third hand information, but it shows the results of some user polls taken by online video company Vzaar. Specifically, Vzaar polled their customers on how using streaming video impr
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5 June
Choosing your streaming resolution and data rate
This page discusses how to compute the optimal data rate for your streaming video.
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3 June
Online video viewing numbers “vastly” overstated
We like to drink our own Kool-Aid in the streaming video business, and most of us tended to accept the increasingly hyperbolic streaming video viewing numbers as fact. Well, Nielson funded a research study to the tune of $3.5 million that actuall
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May, 2009
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26 May
So You Want to Get to Know H.264?
H.264 CABAC CAVLC profiles levels encoding scalable video coding AVC playing back H.265
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23 May
Test Drive: Telestream Episode Pro, Part 2
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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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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