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Memory has the ability to encode, store and recall information. Memories give an organism the capability to learn and adapt from previous experiences as well as build relationships. Encoding allows the perceived item of use or interest to be converted into a construct that can be stored within the brain and recalled later from short term or long term memory. Working memory stores information for immediate use or manipulation which is aided through hooking onto previously archived items alread...

Video File Container Formats, Compression and Codecs - Oh My!

When I first took the dive into online video, I quickly found that there was a steep learning curve - especially with regard to new terms like codecs, video file formats, compression and the like.

Streaming Production and Flash Delivery Workshop - March 23rd

Are you producing streaming video and wondering if your procedures and work flow maximize quality and efficiency? Perhaps you're on the distribution side and need to learn how to produce a Flash Player, or install or manage the Flash Media Server? If any of these ...

Encoding.com Heads To RackSpace's Cloud

In the 'Get Offa My Cloud' Department, Encoding.com has decided to head over to RackSpace and use their cloud computing to power its software as a service video encoding.

Vzaar - Making Commercial Web Video Hosting Simple

Vzaar.com is a lot of things. First off, they're a sponsor here at ReelSEO. That  affects me not since I'm just a freelance contributor but because Mark wanted to make sure it was mentioned. Second, probably first to them, it's an online service that lets ...

YouTube Adds Support for 1080p Full HD Video - Sweet

This is easily the best news in weeks for video producers:  YouTube is now supporting true HD 1080p.  Yes, you read that right.  You can now upload 1080p HD videos to YouTube and share the glorious high definition quality with your friends.

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?

ReelSEO's Grant Crowell interviews Sorenson Media's CEO and President Peter Csathy, on the launch of their Squeeze 6 software, and why they're billing this update as the “first total video workflow solution" for businesses. (Listen to Grant's podcast with a review of the software.)

What To Consider When Shopping for An Online Video Platform

These days the pickins are abundant in the online video platform space, with over 60 pure-play, on-demand online video platform providers (OVPs) offering businesses top-to-bottom video solutions including content ingestion of any format, encoding to multiple formats, storage, content management, monetization, analytics, and playback in ...

Media Myth Busters: Urban Legends of User Experience

Prabakar Sundarrajan, CTO and co-founder of Ankeena Networks talks about the online video delivery experience, myths, and expectations. The new media user experience, specifically video, leaves a lot to be desired.  With the huge growth of online media, end-users are able to view their media ...

Microsoft Wants You To Use Their Stuff To Stream HD

We all know that Flash rules the roost when it comes to online video. We also know that HTML 5 could put a serious dent in that dominance. Now Microsoft is trying to do the same but in the HD streaming category with their upcoming ...

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, ...

2009 Online Video Backlash? I Doubt It!

Some sites have been predicting that 2009 may be the bubble busting time for online video. Like the dot com era that came crashing to a halt they believe that online video too will burst and collapse in upon itself. Personally, I call bullshit.

Akamai Delivers Optimizied Video To IPhone

The new iPhone 3GS means you've got a whole new slew of options in regards to video. Without Flash capabilities on the iPhone our options were extremely limited, but now Akamai is working to fix that problem.

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. Thanks to Mozilla the site will now support Ogg video files and is the first major video ...

Video Blogging Gets Easy - WordPress Steps Up With VideoPress

A picture is worth a thousand words. According to Grant a video is worth millions. So when the content management system (CMS) that is used in millions of websites around the planet switches over to video you can expect billions of words to be transformed ...