Adobe announced today that sometime in 2010, we will all start enjoying the ability to watch Flash video on mobile devices (cell phones, Netbooks, etc.) just as easily as we do on our PC’s. This will happen with the release of Flash Player 10.1, which reportedly will: Work on nearly all smartphones whether they are [...]
When you first start producing web videos, the “add-ons” provided by the software you’re using seem more than enough. But it won’t take you long to start wanting more. You’ll want music to add to your videos. You’ll want graphics. You’ll want animations. You’ll want a cool way to put videos on your web site…and [...]
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 [...]
About a month ago I did a post…or more accurately a review…of Microsoft Silverlight (Microsoft’s foray into the world of web video). The review even drew a couple comments from the Silverlight team at Microsoft. At the time, my big question with Silverlight was…why would someone want to use it when Flash is the Internet [...]
I’m a bit of a quality freak. I’m constantly testing tools side by side, trying to determine what produces the highest quality web video (as in, what gives you the best looking video on the web, with the lowest investment of time and money). At the beginning of August 2008, a new product called DV [...]
