1 Hour On-line Training Modules

Posted by Derrick on September 1, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

1 hour On-line Training Modules are now available at Freeman Compression Inc.  Many individuals have streaming and compression projects that they’re working on a need some assistance.  These short sessions save time and allow you to get your projects going quicker without sitting in on one of our full day training classes.

Just purchase the 1 hour training that you’re interested in and we’ll contact you to schedule your session.  For your training session we’ll provide an instructor that will walk you through the training module you purchase.  We’ll use GoToMeeting and Skype for the training session.   GoToMeeting will be used for screen sharing and Skype will be used for communicating by voice.   Make sure you have a USB Headset before your training session.  All training session are with a Live instructor.

Here are the 1 hour On-line Training Modules available:

Looping Playlist Set-up using JW Player and Wowza Media Server 2 (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to set up a client-side playlist using JW Player for Flash and Wowza Media Server 2. You’ll learn how to include your desired videos in your playlist, set-up your .XML file and and author your HTML web page.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Wowza Media Server 2 and JW Player for Flash

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Multi-bitrate On-demand Streaming Set-up for iPhone (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to set up Multi-bitrate On-demand Streaming for the iPhone using Wowza Media Server 2. You’ll learn what you need to do for encoding your videos for Multi-bitrate On-demand Streaming, how to set-up your playlist and where to upload your streaming videos.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Wowza Media Server 2 and an iPhone

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On-demand Streaming Set-up with Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3 (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to set up On-demand Streaming using Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3.  This learning module will teach you how to set-up your streaming on Cloudfront and connect it with your S3 bucket for On-demand Streaming.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3

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Publishing Videos to Amazon Web Services with Sorenson Squeeze 6 (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to encode your videos and then have them publish to your Amazon Web Services account. This session will teach you what you need to get content uploaded to your Amazon S3 bucket after encoding.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Amazon S3 and Sorenson Squeeze 6 Amazon Web Services Edition

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Longtail Ad Solution Set-up for Delivery with JW Player for Flash (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to set up your Longtail Ad Solution account for serving video ads with JW Player.  You’ll learn how to set up your channel, specify videos ads and embed your plug-in within your JW Player HTML code. You’ll also learn about proper sizing for video ads using Ad Solution.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Longtail Ad Solution and JW Player for Flash

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Sorenson Squeeze Overview (1 hour session)

Training Overview: This 1 hour training session will provide you with a good overview of Sorenson Squeeze.  Your instructor will describe the various items within Squeeze and show you how to set-up Batch Encoding and Watch Folder Encoding.  This is a good training module to get you going quickly with Sorenson Squeeze.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Sorenson Squeeze version 4.5.6, 5 or 6

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Sawmill Professional Overview (1 hour session)

Training Overview: This 1 hour training session will provide you with a good overview of Sawmill Professional.  Your instructor will describe the various items within Sawmill Professional and get you familiar with processing log files. This is a good training module to get you up and running with Sawmill Professional.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Sawmill Professional

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iPhone Streaming Set-up with Wowza Media Server 2 (1 hour session)

Training Overview: In this 1 hour training session your instructor will teach you how to set up iPhone Streaming with Wowza Media Server 2. You’ll learn how to set-up your iPhone Streaming application, encode your videos and create a link for delivering video to the iPhone.

Cost: $150

Items needed: Wowza Media Server 2 and an iPhone

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Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression.com to register for a session.  Individuals from any country can attend our On-line training sessions.

Working with Encoding.com, Amazon S3 and Cloudfront

Posted by Derrick on July 2, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Working with Encoding.com, Amazon S3 and Cloudfront is what I had a chance to do recently. It was nice to work with the Encoding.com encoding service again. This service can make things extremely easy for novices especially if you have someone to set up encoding presets and other items for you. It terms of compression, I generally like to be up close and personal on the desktop with my compression tools but there are some things that I like about the Encoding.com service.

Project Goal: To provide a great viewing experience for 80 minute video lessons with Real-Time Streaming. The videos needed to play without interruption. Also we needed to provide 1-2 minute videos for Progressive Download.

Here are the tools used for the project:

Amazon S3
Amazon Cloudfront
Rackspace Cloud
Encoding.com
JW Player

Because of the project we decided to go with delivering Real-time Streaming of the 80 minute lessons with Amazon Cloudfront and Amazon S3. We also used the Cloudfront and S3 for the Progessive Downloads. What nice is the Amazon Cloudfront uses Adobe Flash Media Servers for Real Time Streaming. For delivery we implemented On-demand Dynamic Streaming for Real-time Streaming and went with a single datarate video for Progressive Download. We used 5 different dates for different types of viewers and the video dynamically switches based on users bandwidth. Rackspace was used for the source file location and JW Player was used for both Real-time and Progressive Download playback of the Flash video content.

Here’s what I liked about Encoding.com:

  • Watch Folder Encoding
  • FTP or Amazon S3 locations can be specified for Watch Folders
  • Videos can be sent to FTP or Amazon S3 locations after encoding
  • The ability to view encoding jobs in the Encoding Queue
  • Watch Encoding Log

Here’s what I’d like to see improved with Encoding.com:

  • The ability to specify naming conventions for Watch Folders
  • The ability to apply multiple presets to Watch Folders
  • More compression filters available