Posted by Derrick on May 12, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
When working with Sorenson Squeeze 6 and Flash Linked SWF and FLV files there are a couple of tutorials here on the blog that will help you. There’s one for encoding Flash Linked SWF and FLV with Squeeze 6. Another is a tutorial that covers the web authoring process for delivering your video content on the web with Dreamweaver CS4.
Here are both tutorials:
Encoding Flash Linked Downloadable Streaming Videos with Squeeze 6
Authoring a Web Page for Flash Linked Downloadable Streaming with Dreamweaver CS4
Tags: .FLV, Authoring, cs4, Downloadable, dreamweaver, encoding, files, flash, Linked, Sorenson, Squeeze 6, streaming, SWF, tutorials, Video
Posted by Derrick on March 7, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Webcasting from the iPhone is included in our Video Streaming and Compression Training. The iPhone is now one of the killer apps and has many capibilities and one of them includes Webcasting from it. Attend one of our 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Trainings and learn how to do it. Learn how to include you iPhone Live Webcast in a Blog Page or in a Web Page. The 2-Day Training is available in Orlando, On-line and On-site. View Upcoming Training Schedule
Here are some other items included in the training:
- How to encode Downloadable streaming videos
- How to encode Real-time streaming videos
- Best Practices for Compression and Streaming
- How to encode to QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264, Real Media and Flash video formats
- What the best CODECS are for their streaming formats
- How to author QuickTime, Windows Media, H.264 and Flash downloadable streaming videos
- How to author Flash .FLV files using Dreamweaver .SWF players
- How to author Flash .FLV files using JW Player
- Benefits of 1-Pass CBR, 1-Pass VBR, 2-pass CBR and 2-Pass VBR compression
- Knowledge of Deinterlacing, Key Frame Every, Frames Per Second, Cropping and other items
- How to set up Live Streaming
- How to analyze log files using Sawmill Professional
Featured Software for the class:
- Sorenson Squeeze 6
- Episode Encoder Pro
- Wirecast
- Dreamweaver
- Sawmill Professional
Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or contact us by E-mail at info@freemancompression.com to register for a class.
Tags: .SWF players, 2-day, Add new tag, analyze, author, codecs, Compression, Downloadable, dreamweaver, encode, Episode Encoder Pro, files, formats, from, iPhone, JW Player, live, Log, on-line, On-site, professional, Real-time, Sawmill, Sorenson Squeeze 6, streaming, training, Video, videos, webcast, webcasting, Wirecast
Posted by Derrick on January 19, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Playing Flash .FLV files in RealPlayer SP is very handy. Many times when you’re encoding content for Flash video using the .FLV wrapper, you need to play your video to make sure it looks good. Well, RealPlayer SP does this well and is available on both PC and Mac platforms. You also can play .FLV videos in the player to see if your encode was successful in hitting your target datatrate. Needless to say it’s great to have around. So if you don’t have a player to view your .FLV videos your can set RealPlayer SP to open all your .FLV files.
To do this select any .FLV file and on the Mac click Command-I.
When the Get Info Window opens click the Open with Pop-up Window and choose RealPlayer. Make sure you also click the Change All button to force RealPlayer to open all of videos. Now you can enjoy viewing all of your .FLV videos in RealPlayer SP.
The process is very similar for doing this on a MAC or PC.
Tags: .FLV, datatrate, encode, files, mac, PC, Playing, RealPlayer, SP, Video, videos, wrapper
Posted by Derrick on October 15, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
If you need to encode MP3 audio files on the Mac then using tools such as Episode and Sorenson Squeeze are obviously good choices for this. There are MP3 encoding presets already built into both applications. If you’re trying to save money a free tool that you can use is called Audacity. This tool was first recommended to me by Brian Alves, one of the world’s leading podcasters and host of The DV Show. If you have AIFF source files Audacity can encode them. To use Audacity for encoding MP3 files you’ll need to download and install the Audacity application and the LAME mp3 encoder available on the Audacity website under downloads.
Posted by Derrick on September 27, 2009 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Working with MPEG-1 muxed media files can be tricky but it can be easier using a tool like MPEG Streamclip. Every Multimedia Specialist should have this tool available.
A muxed MPEG-1 file is a MPEG-1 file that has the video and audio tracks mixed together. You can run into problems encoding these types of files using some compression applications. So it’s a good idea to demux the MPEG-1 file. Once you compress the video you can re-assemble the audio and video in Quicktime Pro. This will give you a seperate audio file. If you don’t have QuickTime Pro available then you can assemble your files in Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro then export to QuickTime. It’s not the best work flow but it will work.
To demux your MPEG-1 file open your file in MPEG Streamclip and navigate to Demux to AIFF via the File pull-down menu. You don’t have to bother with Demuxing the video because when you compress your MPEG-1 muxed file in many cases you will get a video only file.
Tags: AIFF, applications, audio, compress, Compression, demux, Demuxing, encoding, files, media, mixed, MPEG, MPEG-1, muxed, Streamclip, tracks, Video
