Over the past week I’ve had several requests to do a post about the problems people run into when trying to watch videos online. Problems like videos pausing (while a “buffering” message appears) or a video stopping during playback for no apparent reason. So here’s what you need to know. First, videos pausing during playback [...]
If you host your own videos, maintaining your video quality is not a problem because you control everything from start to finish. However, if you use video sharing sites to host your videos, it’s a different story. Essentially, you upload your video and then give up total control over what the final product is going [...]
This is an interesting one. It started with a press release about yet another new digital still photo camera…but has turned into the event of the year (so far) in the video world. Why? Because it turns out that this camera meant to shoot still photos can also record full, high-definition video…that rivals…and even surpasses…insanely [...]
A frequent question I receive from people who plan to start creating web videos on a regular basis is…should I use Windows or a Mac? The answer isn’t so simple. In fact, I use both. So what I’m going to do here is highlight what you need to know about these platforms, as they pertain [...]
For years, the folks at On2 Technologies have owned the title of “best video codec” when it came to Flash video. Their VP6 codec had become the gold-standard and is licensed by Adobe, the makers of Flash. If you produce your web videos using products like Flix Standard, Flix Pro or Adobe Flash Pro/CS3, you’re [...]
