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.
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Posted 19 Feb 2014
Successfully implementing branding in online video means making sure every video you produce accurately reflects and advances your company's or client's brand identity at each stage of the production process, as well as in your production style. This article explains how and when to pay attention to branding in your productions.
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Posted 18 Feb 2014
We've all had the misfortune of recording clipped, distorted audio from a signal that's too hot, resulting in time-consuming retakes or total disaster if the audio is from a live event. The Declip feature in iZotope RX3 can reduce that disaster to a quick and easy fix.
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Posted 18 Feb 2014
While some of the time-tested principles of traditional video production still apply, online video is really a world of its own; here we look at key elements of online video production that distinguish it from producing for other media, including composition, lighting, and more.
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Posted 10 Feb 2014
Are pro video cameras overkill for single-speaker webinars? What's the best type of camera these ever-more popular productions, and what kind and how much lighting do you need to pull them off? We set up some common scenarios, ran some tests, and here's what we found out.
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Posted 04 Feb 2014
This video tutorial demonstrates how to restore muffled sections of spoken audio using the Multiband Compressor in Adobe Premiere Pro CC or Adobe Audition.
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Posted 28 Jan 2014
The next key element of feeding the beast and maintaining high-volume video output is workflow; the choices that you make for your workflow are important for everything that you do, from studio space to production, post, syndication, and archiving.
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Posted 21 Jan 2014
Video publishers often struggle to keep up with the demands of viewers expect fresh content on a daily basis, and advertisers who want lots of inventory. This article explains how a two-person production crew generates 800-1,000 new videos per year for a leading site for investors.
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Posted 16 Jan 2014
IEBA Communications' Anthony Burokas offers a sneak preview of his two Streaming Media Producer Live sessions, "Choosing Lenses for Online Video Production" and "Choosing a Video Switcher."
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Posted 15 Jan 2014
Video storyteller extraordinaire Glenn Zimmerman of Manhattan and Tampa-based Mad Bear Productions discusses how to move from online delivery to online engagement in his two Streaming Media Producer Live Strategic Track sessions--updated with complete session video from Streaming Media Producer Live!
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Posted 15 Jan 2014
proDad's latest release is a standalone application called ReSpeedr, which the company touts as "the Ultimate Super Slow-Motion & Time-Lapse Video Producer"; here we check out ReSpeedr's usability and test its image quality compared to that available natively in an NLE on moderately and extremely slowed-down clips.
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Posted 14 Jan 2014
Is this HP's chance to polish off the Apple all-in-one competitor?
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Posted 09 Jan 2014
In Part 2 of our in-depth look at the Canon XA20/25, I'll touch on a feature new to Canon's pro line of camcorders, and to see how the AVCHD image stacks up.
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Posted 07 Jan 2014
StreamVu is a simple, inexpensive and well-featured service, and Matrox Monarch HD is the only hardware encoder that can produce one stream for live distribution and the other for archiving. In combination, they make an ideal solution for your live and on-demand video production requirements.
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Posted 06 Jan 2014
An in-depth discussion on the features and usability, image quality, and capabilities of the Canon XA20/25, along with comparisons to the predecessor XA10 and next-higher models XF100 and XF300 featuring the author and Andrew Jones of Dallas's The Movie Institute.
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Posted 18 Dec 2013
In this ongoing Streaming Media Producer series on webcast video production, Shawn Lam covers the video format converters he uses in his own HD webcast workflows, and one new converter that just might be the video converter, scaler, and distribution amplifier to rule them all.
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Posted 11 Dec 2013
All of the items Adorama's Flashpoint product line are priced in the $200-$400 range, but quality-wise they're very good. They're not the most refined and precision instruments available, but they get the job done, and this 7-inch, 1280x800-resolution LCD monitor, which lists for $400, is no exception.
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Posted 01 Dec 2013
In this review we're going to look at the Adorama Flashpoint line of Cinema DSLR Gear. We're going to start off with a broadly compatible and modular system including the Mattebox, the Shoulder Rig, and the Follow Focus, and finish off (in a separate review) with Adorama's 7-inch LCD monitor.
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Posted 25 Nov 2013
The dual-stream use case--one for streaming, one for archive or other production--is very common in live production, and Matrox Monarch HD, a $995 compact standalone streaming/recording unit, appears to be the lowest-cost solution--and a highly competent one at that.
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Posted 16 Nov 2013
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