August, 2015

• 6 August

  Understanding ABR Latency: A Guest Post from Alex Zambelli

  One of the nice things about the streaming industry is that many folks will share their knowledge with you if you ask a quick question on a subject they are passionate and knowledgeable about. So it was with a question I asked of Alex Zambelli, now with iStreamPlanet, and formerly with the Microsoft team that streamed multiple Olympics and other …

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• 6 August

  Producing Live Events, Master Tip 5: Audio Quality is Key

  Total Webcasting is a webcasting service provider out of New York that produces dozens of events a month, and thousands since its inception in 2007. Total Webcasting is unique in that it produces virtually all events for its customers, while owning the streaming server and content management system used for live and on-demand delivery, providing the complete “glass-to-glass” experience. Through their …

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• 3 August

  Tutorial: iOS-to-Workstation Editing Workflow with Adobe Premiere Clip and Premiere Pro

  Shoot and edit a lot of video on your iPhone and iPad? Want to transfer the project over to your workstation for completion? If so, in this tutorial I demonstrate how to use Adobe Premiere clip to start video production on your iPhone or iPad and the

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July, 2015

• 27 July

  HEVC Advance: What Do the Royalties Mean for Video Publishers?

  HEVC Advance shook up the codec world when they announced proposed royalty policies in July, 2015, that included much higher hardware royalties then MPEG LA is seeking, without a cap, as well as royalties on content. In this article on streaming media.com, I analyze the proposed licensing terms and attempt to predict real-world numbers for actual HEVC users like Apple …

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• 26 July

  Time to Abandon Flash? It Depends

  Flash has been getting lots of bad press lately, some deserved, some not. Is it time to abandon Adobe’s long-in-the-tooth technology? Well, judging from the title an article I wrote that recently appeared on Streaming Media, HTML5 Comes of Age: It’s Finally Time to Tell Flash Good-bye, you would think so. Funny thing, though, editors create the titles, not authors, …

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• 26 July

  Producing Live Events, Master Tip 6: Ensure Slide Integrity with a VGA Distribution Amplifier

  Total Webcasting is a webcasting service provider out of New York that produces dozens of events a month, and thousands since its inception in 2007. Total Webcasting is unique in that it produces virtually all events for its customers, while owning the streaming server and content management system used for live and on-demand delivery, providing the complete “glass-to-glass” experience. Through their …

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• 26 July

  HEVCAdvance Issues HEVC Royalty Schedule With Content Royalties

  HEVCAdvance is the second HEVC patent group comprised of GE, Technicolor, Mitsubishi, Philips, and Dolby, which I wrote about in detail for Streaming Media in New HEVC Patent Pool: What Are the Implications? Last week, the group issues a proposed royalty schedule to much negative fanfare. Here’s the schedule for hardware for Region 1, which includes most developed countries. Region …

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• 17 July

  Webinar Production: How To Look and Sound Like a Pro in Eight Easy Lessons

  I’m producing a free webinar with Onstream Media on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 1:00 PM EST. Here’s the description: While business use of video in webinars and videoconferencing is skyrocketing, few users have had any kind of media training, and subpar audio or video quality can often derail or diminish the desired benefits of the video presentation. Fortunately, in …

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• 15 July

  Using Objective and Subjective Quality Tests

  Here's a column that talks about the requirement to perform both objective and subjective testing when evaluating different encoding techniques or comparing codecs. Here's the first paragraph. I spend a lot of time assessing video quality, sometimes

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• 15 July

  Review: Bitcodin, a Cloud Video Encoding Service From Bitmovin

  Bitmovin is an Austrian company that supplies both a cloud encoder (bitcodin) and an HTML5 player (Bitdash). It offers an all-in-one service to companies seeking to encode and distribute files via HTML5 to computers and mobile devices. I reviewed the

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