Posted by Derrick217 on May 14, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | 
Sorenson Squeeze Training is available at Freeman Compression Inc. to get individuals, companies or organizations familiar with Sorenson Squeeze 6. Squeeze is one of the most exciting and useful video compression tools and users can use it to encode to a number of streaming output formats. One of the major benefits is you can output to Flash, Windows Media, H.264, Real Media, QuickTime. Plus, you can even compress to QuickTime Authoring CODECs. There’s a Preview, FTP after encoding and many other features in this tool. If you haven’t used Squeeze or need to get training on it, attend one of our Sorenson Squeeze 6 Training classes. There are On-line classes available for PC and Mac users. You can also attend one of our trainings in Orlando or have training On-site at your location. Call Freeman Compression Inc. at 407.477.5837 or E-mail us at info@freemancompression .com for more information.
Tags: classes, codecs, Compression, flash, formats, Freeman, h.264, quicktime, Real Media, Sorenson, Squeeze, streaming, Tools, Training, Video, windows media
Posted by Derrick on May 3, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Streaming content providers should contact MPEGLA for H.264 licensing. Many might not know it but if you’re streaming video content using the MPEG-4 standard with MPEG-4 Part 2 (MPEG-4) or MPEG-4 Part 10 (AVC/H.264) there are licensing requirements. You can contact MPEGLA directly or you can visit their website for more information about how the licensing works. There are .PDFs and PowerPoint presentations available for download on the MPEGLA website.
Posted by Derrick on April 21, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
On-line Video Streaming Portal Set-up is available from Freeman Compression Inc. With On-line video becoming more popular, many organizations have a need for an On-line Video Streaming Portal. Let Freeman Compression create your On-line Video Portal and teach your staff how to keep it updated and how to add new video streaming content on-line. We’ll work with you to implement Windows Media, Flash Video, QuickTime or H.264 content in your video portal. Set-up of your On-line Video Portal can be done remotely and one of our consultants can come on-site to your location.
Posted by Derrick on April 14, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Telestream, a leading provider of digital media tools and workflow solutions, takes video encoding to the next level with its announcement of Episode 6. For the first time, users can pool resources to share encoding work across multiple computers in a mixed environment of Macs and PCs. Episode also brings cross-platform scalability from the desktop to the server, another industry-first. Combining exclusive One-Click Clustering and integrated file sharing allows users to easily share work across multiple machines seamlessly for faster and more efficient video encoding. A new, intuitive user interface with graphical workflow builder simplifies the encoding process. As part of its new deployment capabilities, Episode 6 automates uploading of completed videos to YouTube for greater audience reach. These groundbreaking features allow professional videographers, post-production houses and content owners to streamline operations and increase productivity, while reaching a broader audience.
“Episode 6 offers an impressive combination of powerful new features that will help workgroups such as ours realize our vision of turning around high-quality encoding jobs more quickly for our clients,” said Kenji Hayashi, Producer at San Francisco-based Phoenix Editorial and Bonfire. “The depth of control that Episode allows us to achieve, combined with top-quality Main Concept H.264 and MPEG codecs, is unrivaled in the industry.”
Episode 6 exclusive One-Click Clustering adds flexibility to processor-intensive encoding tasks by sharing the workload across permanent or ad hoc clusters as computers become available. With One-Click Clustering, users can easily join or setup a cluster of mixed Mac and PC computers to get the work done more quickly, maximizing productivity and equipment investment. Because of Episode’s unique, built-in file sharing and ease of configuration, clusters can be set up without the need for IT assistance. Permissions-based clustering allows users to join a cluster, name clusters, view machines on the cluster, as well as the workload and determine status of each.
For time-critical workflows, unique Split-and-Stitch technology and parallel encoding, allow users to saturate the processing power of a single machine or distribute files across a cluster of Mac or PC servers to achieve remarkable encoding speeds. In addition, Episode 6 adds format support for high-quality Main Concept H.264 and MPEG video formats.
“Major consumer brands have seen the success of Hulu.com and YouTube, and are now funding professional webisodes that market products out to online users and follow them onto their mobile devices. This requires the ability to encode for multiple display formats while keeping costs low,” said Gerry Kaufhold, principal analyst with market research firm In-Stat. “Telestream’s customers can follow this trend, and benefit from the new clustering and file sharing capabilities built into Episode 6 to achieve faster time-to-market and more efficient use of existing network computing resources.”
Episode 6 also adds new deployment capabilities that allow users to automatically deliver their completed content using standard network delivery protocols, and upload content to popular video sharing websites like YouTube. All these new capabilities are easily accessible through the new graphical workflow builder that allows users to visually create and view the steps in their encoding process.
Episode is an all-in-one encoder that includes extensive presets and filters plus the ability to add bumpers, trailers and watermarks to enhance and protect video content. Combined best-in-class video processing, full 10-bit support and hands-on control with frame-by-frame video preview allow users to generate excellent picture quality. Episode provides extensive format support for post-production, new media, web and mobile encoding environments.
“We’re seeing explosive growth in the distribution of video to the web and wireless devices,” said Barbara DeHart, VP of Marketing at Telestream. “Episode 6 is a game changer that combines quality and encoding speed together with never-before-seen scalability and ease of use. This is a major step towards our goal of helping individuals, workgroups and large-scale businesses meet the growing demand of web and mobile video distribution.”
Posted by Derrick on February 27, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression |
Telestream’s Wirecast supports Live Encoding to QuickTime Streaming Server. This is a good thing if you’re going to be delivering you Live Webcast to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming and you have a PC for your Live Encoder. You can easily send your Live Stream to the QTSS in the H.264 flavor and customize the frame size, datarate, key frame interval, fps etc. Since QuickTime Broadcaster is not available for the PC Wirecast provides a wonderful solution for Live Encoding to QTSS with many other added benefits.
Wirecast provides a more advanced level tool for Webcasting. Not only does it support Live Encoding to QTSS but Wirecast (for PC) also sports Live Encoding to Windows Media Server, Flash Streaming Servers and many CDNs. With it you can encode from Fireware cameras attached via Firewire. If you have separate Firewire cards installed you can switch between multiple Firewire cameras. Multiple Live Streams can be sent to the same server/different servers and you can create an archive for on-demand viewing later during your Webcast. Wirecast also provides a full production switcher in software. You can switch seamlessly between multiple cameras, multiple video sources, and Powerpoint presentations.
Lower thirds (name keys) can also be included during your Webcasts. So you could have 10-15 or more lower third graphics called up as desired during your production. Wirecast comes with many pre-made lower third templates saving you a tremendous amount of time in design. Wirecast can also do nice transitions and dissolves between sources. You can even do Picture-N- Picture. Wirecast is not free like QuickTimeBroadcaster but you will definitely get a superior tool for Webcasting along with the ability to solve the issue of Live Encoding to Apple’s QuickTime Streaming Server from a PC.
Tags: encoding, flash, h.264, live, media, Multiple Live Streams, Powerpoint, presentations, QTSS, quicktime, Server, streaming, webcast, webcasting, Windows, Wirecast
