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Guide to Exporting for Online Video

Here’s a brief little overview from the Shoot Yourself blog on exporting for online video. But the title, YouTube Tip #2: A Quick and Dirty Guide to Exporting for YouTube is a little misleading becasue most of the information comes from blip.tv, which has, in my opinion, some of the best tutorial of any of [...]

Shooting for Streaming from Jan Ozer

Jan Ozer, long time streaming and compression expert, has a great two part article in DigitalContentProducer called Shooting for Streaming.
I’ve known Jan for a lot of years and he really knows his stuff. He wrote the original Video Compression Bible. He had the top rated session at last year’s MCA-I ProTrack and will be [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 3)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
Some Streaming Details
Steaming your rich media files has some hardware and software requirements. First you’ll need some way to create the file; your editing software will take care of this. [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 2)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
You: Media Expert
That sounds like a lot to know and remember. You should keep in mind that you know a great deal about how good media is made. And you [...]

When Words Are Not Enough: Rich Media for Training and Documentation (Part 1)

(This three part post is the content of my presentation at DocTrain West on May 5, 2008 in Vancouver, BC. You can view the presentation here.)
It’s not enough to create a manual or job aid in today’s “instant media” environment. Today’s employees have grown up with and expect a rich media experience wherever they are. [...]

Interviewed on Podcast: Using Video in Training and Documentation

Tom Johnson at the I’d Rather Be Writing blog interviewed me about my session at DocTrain West in May.
Here are the presentation slides.
The presentation content is a three parter starting this week!

Hillman Curtis on “Video on the Web: Getting Started”

Hillman Curtis has been shaking things up in the design community for awhile. Well, he’s written an article over at the Adobe Design Center, Dialog Box section that isn’t earth shaking but lays out the basics of digital video production from equipment selection to editing and distribution. This is an excerpt from his 2006 book [...]

On streaming audio and video

This is a reply to a message I posted to the Refresh-Austin listserv. The original question wa: “Does anybody have a recommendation for good video resource websites or forums or mailing lists, etc?” And then I got a bit verbose on the topic of streaming media, etc.
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Creativecow.com, dv.com, videomaker.com and streamingmedia.com are two pretty [...]

Trial by Fire: Putting a Newtek Tricaster to Work

The Latino Congresso project required a live, switched feed that needed to be webcast. (We also provided a video feed to the room’s video projectors.) I looked at a few options but the simplest way I found to do all that was with the Newtek Tricaster.
Now, the only time I had seen a Tricaster was [...]

Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance

I’ve started a little lessons learned doc. There were quite a few things we could have done to make this conference project go easier. So here’s the highlights.

Create a Tape Naming Scheme: I actually had this on my To Do list but it dropped in priority. We came up with a scheme on site but [...]