Tutorial: Sorenson Squeeze 9
Squeeze offers great single- and multiple-file encoding performance, excellent quality, and a range of features that other encoders in its class simply can't match. Here's a look at how Squeeze works and how to leverage some of its key features.
Review and Approval Workflow
If you’re producing video for a client, Squeeze makes it easy to get their review and approval. When you configure the encode, you can tell Squeeze to upload the file to your Sorenson 360 account (which is free when you buy Squeeze) by choosing the Sorenson 360 publishing option. Then you click Client Approval (reviewer), under Notifications and Reviews (Figure 13, below), which opens the Edit Notification dialog (Figure 13). From there you can send an email or text message to the client letting them know that the file is available for review (Figure 14, below Figure 13).
Figure 13. Entering the necessary info to send a completed edit to a client for review. Click the image to see it at full size.
Figure 14. Client review in Sorenson 360. Click the image to see it at full size.
Your clients then receive a link they can click to open the file in Sorenson 360, where they can add their comments, approve, or ask for revisions, and send their comments back to you. This process can cut hours or even days from a project life cycle.
Beyond these high-level tools are a bunch of essentials that most other encoders don’t supply. For example, Squeeze makes it simple to preview your encoding job by clicking the preview icon (Figure 15, below), which encodes a five-second preview of the file around the playhead.
Figure 15. Click here to preview your encode.
As discussed earlier, Squeeze can deliver encoded videos to a variety of places for you, and send you an email or text message when encoding is complete.
So that’s it. Squeeze offers great single- and multiple-file encoding performance, excellent quality, and a range of features that other encoders in its class simply can’t match. If you’re looking to upgrade your encoding capabilities, you should definitely check it out.
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