Topic - Online Video & codecs
End Your Video Encoding Blues with Encoding.com
Encoding.com offers, get this, web-based, on-demand, video encoding. Nope, no joke. They will grab your video encode it and then send it back to you. Sign up is free and you can even do a test run but after that, you’ll have to pay
Sorenson Squeeze 6 – Total Video Workflow Solution?
Today Sorenson Media announced the launch of the latest update to their video encoding software program, Squeeze 6. Read my interview with Sorenson’s CEO and President Peter Csathy on why his company is billing this update, the first in over a year, as “first total video workflow solution” for businesses. (Click the play button at the bottom of this post to listen to our podcast for my initial review of the software.)
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Apple’s New Final Cut Studio – Quick Overview
After some time and impatient waiting on behalf of many Mac-based video editing professionals, the newest version of Final Cut Studio was realsead out in the wild last week. The studio packages up six great applications (Final Cut Pro 7, Soundtrack Pro 3, Color 1.5, DVD Studio Pro 4, Motion 4 and Compressor 3.5) that should allow you to do an endless variety of video editing including both sights and sounds.
Is Ogg Theora the Savior of Online Video?
Ogg Theora, the magical, mystical, savior of the online video movement? Tapped to be part of the Open Video Standards and set to take its position at center stage in the push for widespread online video acceptance, but is it all it can be and is it all that we need?
Dailymotion Supports Open Video Formats
Dailymotion, you know, the video entertainment site where you can share your videos on pretty much almost any topic, is now accepting Open Video formats and HTML tags.
What is Real High-Definition Video? – Online HD Video Overview
High-Definition is the “new” way to watch video, but how do you know if what you’re downloading is truly high-definition or not? Well, first we need to look at what HD actually is.
New Sorenson Squeeze Software for High Quality Online Video Encoding
Funny, just yesterday a friend and I were discussing how we felt that Sorenson had “missed the boat” so to speak in terms of offering a more simplified software solution for encoding web specifically for the web. And last night, I found the following announcement on the Sorenson Media Blog
“Sorenson knows high quality online video and is excited to announce the release of Squeeze 5 MP4! Ok, Ok -enough already! The masses have spoken and Sorenson Media has listened. Every week for the last 6 months or so, we have conducted a 30 minute product webinar to highlight the functionality of Squeeze 5. At the end of the webinar,we spend 5 to 10 minutes answering questions and one that I’ve been asked many times is ‘Our company just needs to encode content for YouTube upload – how can we do this without it looking like garbage?’” – Kirk Punches, Director of Sales
Open Source and Proprietary Internet Video Codecs
Internet video broadcasting is rapidly becoming the medium of choice for delivery of video entertainment and news. There are no geographic limitations or technical licensing requirements for broadcasting on the Internet, which allows any individual to produce and distribute multimedia to a global audience. Content producers have many technical options for creating video for broadcasting on the Internet, which includes the method of encoding the video, method of content delivery and end user requirements for viewing the video. It is important for content producers to understand these available options.
Optimal Frame Dimensions for Flash Video Encoding
There are many different factors that contribute to visual quality when encoding compressed video for the web. One factor that is often overlooked has to do with encoding blocks and what dimensions you choose when encoding video. Choosing non-optimal dimensions can result in poor visual image quality and reduced frame rate.
On2 Interview – The Basics of Online Video Codecs
At the Streaming Media East conference in NY in 2008, Grant Crowell and I took a few moments to sit down with the Chief Marketing Officer of On2 technologies, Eero Kaikkonen. We asked Eero to provide our readers with some basic information regarding what online video codes are, and what they mean for online video marketers.
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HD Video Editing Platform for Adobe Premiere Pro
MainConcept AG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of DivX, Inc., and one of the world’s leading providers of video and audio codecs and software development kits (SDK) to the broadcast, film and consumer markets, today announced the release of the updated MainConcept™ MPEG Pro™ HD 3.2 Plug-In for Adobe ® Premiere ® Pro CS3, providing enhanced support for the editing of high-definition video.
