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 Full Article…
New Video Format Hits the Web – Claims Better Quality At Half The Size
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 Full Article…
Microsoft Silverlight To Begin Supporting Flash Video
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 Full Article…
Video Tutorial: DV Kitchen – The Best Tool To Encode H.264 Web Videos?
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 Full Article…
Understanding High-Definition Video On The Web – H.264
When most people are starting out, trying to get their first video online, they are happy to simply get something out there. Quality concerns are usually buried somewhere down towards the bottom of the list. But usually, after they’ve broken through that initial learning curve, they’ll want to know how to get their videos looking Full Article…