Shooting for Streaming, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

This month’s offering is a drama showing just how far a man will go to prove that he's right (or perhaps, not wrong). What’s in it for you besides the guilty pleasure of reading a desperate nail-biter? It’s called stealth learning...

Beta Sight: AJA Kona 3  

By Clayton Condit Owner/Editor, Splice Here

Based in Minneapolis, Splice Here covers the postproduction Spectrum -- from advertising, broadcast networks, and corporate clientele...

Encoding Best Practices, Part 2 

By Jan Ozer

In the previous installment, you read about which streaming codecs major broadcasters and corporate producers were using. Now you’ll see the results of some quality comparisons that I presented at Streaming Media East in New York last month...

Encoding Best Practices, Part 1 

By Jan Ozer

This month I take a break from our HD production chores to look at streaming-related issues. In this first installment, I’ll share the results of a survey I recently completed that details the best practices of high-profile broadcast and corporate streaming producers, examining options such as codec choice, video resolution, audio and video data rates, and frame rate...

Experimental Distribution 

By Eric Melin

At South by Southwest (SXSW) this year, there was an interesting dichotomy happening. Not only did the interactive panels outnumber the film-oriented ones by about three to one, but talk of digital distribution ...

Distribution U 

By Craig Erpelding

Majoring in film is not your mother and fathers major anymore. That undeniable quote came from a conversation with David Franko, the program director...

Distribute Expertise: Flash vs. Silverlight  

By Jan Ozer

Since its introduction at NAB Show 2007, Microsoft Silverlight has achieved a number of high-profile design wins including mlb.com, nba.com, and NBC's...

Distribute Expertise: Blu-ray Blues  

By Jan Ozer

Whenever Blu-ray comes up, there are questions about authoring. But equally daunting are the issues of distribution and the licensing costs associated...

Mark In 

Anyone involved in production today can probably name any number of compression formats (codecs) and the vendors that support them think Panasonic DVCPRO...

NAB 2008 Pick Hit Awards 

Trevor Boyer

For the Pick Hits, our judges look for products that show significant technological innovation, while promising to have a positive, practical impact on the day-to-day professional lives of digital content producers, and the 2008 list certainly reflects that. ...