On2 VP6 based Flash video is among the most widely used formats for Internet video. As a result of this agreement, On2 VP6 based services will be able to deliver dynamic transcoding for video on demand, enabling broadcasters, syndicators, or user generated video sites to eliminate storage of multiple file formats and deliver files from their entire video library for any application.

• Play/Pause=spacebar
• Move current-time indicator to end of timeline=End or Down arrow
• Move current-time indicator to beginning of timeline=Home or Up arrow
• Move current-time indicator one frame left=Left Arrow
• Move current-time indicator one frame right=Right Arrow
• Go to next edit point=Page Down
• Go to previous edit point=Page Up
• Create a poster frame=Ctrl+Alt-drag from a chapter point
• Zoom out=, (comma)
• Zoom in=. (period)

Network Foundation Technologies, LLC (NFT) partnered with European broadcaster StadeoTV to broadcast, at no charge to the viewer, the "Millennium Series - Disney French Open" event, live over the Internet to fans worldwide. This Free-For-View event was broadcast live on Sunday, October 14th, 2007, beginning at 7 am Eastern, from the Millennium Center Court at Euro Disney, in Paris, France, and viewers were able to tune in by using NFT's patented NiFTy Online Television product.

The launch of Yonden Media Works�s Wowza Flash Streaming Service marks a new era in large-scale Flash streaming in Japan. Wowza Media Server Pro, the most advanced Flash streaming server software currently available replaces the outmoded Adobe Flash Communication Servers (FCS) which YMW had deployed previously.

Telestream today introduced Episode Podcast, a product developed specifically for seamless integration with one of Apple's new Mac OS X Leopard Server features, Podcast Producer. Telestream's Episode Podcast addresses a growing need for educators to provide students with anytime, anywhere access to content on mobile and personal devices. Episode Podcast extends format support for Podcast Producer to virtually any video or audio file format or platform.

"The convergence of broadband with portable media devices now makes it possible for educators to provide a virtual classroom experience for timely distribution of educational content," said Dan Castles, President/CEO at Telestream. "While Podcast Producer makes podcast tools more accessible to content producers, Telestream makes the content accessible to a broader audience."

The ViewCast Osprey line of high-performance video capture cards is playing a starring role in educational Webcasting and distance learning programs at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The university is using the Osprey devices for NUScast, an award-winning program for streaming video of university lectures and other events over the NUS Web site. In addition, as a participant in the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) educational consortium, NUS is using the streaming technology in a joint distance learning program with MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). The Osprey devices are provided by ViewCast Corporation (OTCBB: VCST), a leading global provider of high-quality audio and video encoding communication products.

Streambox Portable Video Transport, Rugged Version -- At GVExpo 2007, Streambox will highlight a new fully rugged version of its industry-leading Portable Video Transport system for mobile newsgathering, emergency response, and armed forces operations. The rugged encoder is ideal for use in environments where extreme temperatures are the norm and exposure to adverse weather and rough handling is expected. It meets or exceeds Mil STD 810F. The innovative video transport solution utilizes the Streambox ACT-L3 codec and advanced compression technologies widely used by news organizations worldwide. The new system, which features an extended battery life, is integrated into one super-compact portable device supplied with a sturdy carry handle for easy transportation. Measuring just 1.98 inches high by 11.8 inches wide by 9.65 inches deep and weighing 6.8 pounds, this video transport system gives the user ultimate flexibility in terms of mobility without sacrificing performance, reliability, and quality.

Akamai Technologies, Inc., the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online, today announced its Akamai Media Framework for Adobereg; Flashreg;. The Framework is designed as a valuable resource to help developers start building video players in Adobe Flash Professional software. The Akamai Media Framework for Adobe Flash Professional software enables the creation of video player applications for streaming and progressive download for content created in Adobe Flash player compatible video, Adobe Flex, and Adobe AIR.

For those that haven't used the tool yet, Netbriefing's Proclaim sports some new features. Netbriefings the large webcast experts with superior webcasting tools on the enterprise side launched a new tool earlier this year called Proclaim. The tool is simply amazing for the price and there is a free demo available for those that want to try the tool. Proclaim has supported live and archived webcasting to the Flash format with the ability to record a presentation via a web cam or camera attached to your computer via firewire. You can also present PowerPoint presentations with Proclaim and have it all recorded together.

Registration and tracking are the new features of Proclaim. The registration allows you to capture viewer registration and also monitors how long they stayed watching on your webcast. The tracking lets track recorded events.

Perhaps a more practical way to perform time remapping in Final Cut Pro is to create through edits that encompass the section of video where you wish to perform the speed change and manipulate the speed of that particular section. The effect will also extend to the associated audio with the clip, therefore keeping it in sync and the time change does not have to be made up elsewhere.

1 Go to the FCP tool palette and choose the razor blade tool.

2 Make sure the Link Selection icon is turned on in the timeline , then make a through edit in the select clip, within the timeline, just before the action that you want to manipulate with the speed change begins. You can do this by clicking the area of the clip with the Razor Blade Tool active. Make another through edit where you want the speed effect to end in the clip.

3 Go back to the tool palette and choose the selection arrow.

4 Right cllick on the segement of video that you want to manipulate with the speed change in order to select it.

5 Choose the Speed option in the pop-up menu and enter 200 into the percent field to speed up that area of the clip. Click OK.

Keep in mind that in contrast to using the Time Remapping tool, you will be changing the overall length of the clip depending on whether you are speeding the clip up, making the clip shorter, or slowing it down, making the clip longer.

Try out both techniques to see which one is right for you.

Encoding to Broadcast Servers with Episode Gateway option

- Initial support for Harris Nexio, Omneon Spectrum, Grass Valley K2

- Faster-than-real-time HD encoding directly to broadcast servers

- Supports time code, captions & VBI metadata with video frames

Image Sequence Importer

Launched just eight months ago, this win places Wowza in the Top 3 position in the streaming server software space, just behind the well-established Adobe Flash Media Server 2 (FMS2) and Microsoft Windows Media Server, who captured the number 1 and number 2 positions, respectively. What's more, readers placed Wowza Media Server Pro ahead of streaming servers from long-time market players Apple and Real Networks.

This example uses the wind blur cross transition. He currently has 26 different filters and transitions available.

 
To install just drop the effects into the Final Cut Pro plugins folder.  I reccomend placing them in the Mac HD / Library / Application Support / Final Cut Pro system support / plugins folder.  

Here is a screenshot of all the free filters.

"The Osprey-700 HD is a high-end capture solution for content owners and content aggregators using SDI video capture sources - both HD and SD," said Dave Stoner, president of ViewCast. "It is the first HD-compatible product from ViewCast and part of the new PCIe family of ViewCast Osprey capture cards developed for next-generation, high-performance systems."

Akamai will serve as the exclusive content distribution provider in the U.S. for the unique partnership announced last month between Apple and Starbucks. Having Akamai-enabled servers located within participating Starbucks locations provides multiple benefits. First, by serving content from within the Starbucks local area network, last mile access has been reduced to a few feet, dramatically improving end user performance, and eliminating the expense and time-to-market of having to increase connectivity in each store location. Second, Akamai's technology creates a fast and reliable route for the delivery of content from the iTunes Store to Starbucks locations.

If you want to have a transition (let's say a plasma wipe) between several PIP effects without affecting the background layer, it can be challenging to figure out. With Avid Xpress or Media Composer, an effect on any layer will affect all the lowers below it. This means the transition would also affect the background layer.

The trick is to nest your content within a single PIP effect. Here are the steps:

Streambox, Inc. announced that it is among the key partners behind CNN's digital newsgathering project, which has been awarded the 2007 IBC Innovation Award for content creation as well as the Judges' Award, the most prestigious award for innovation.

The complete digital newsgathering project incorporates the Streambox ACT-L3 Portable Video Transport solution which was used by the network in its remote coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in July 2006. Utilizing Streambox's sophisticated encoding technology, journalists were able to file hundreds of live reports with portable IP transmission gear that fit neatly into a backpack and yielded images, delivered over IP-based networks in tandem with satellite uplinks, which proved significantly better than earlier technologies.

The U.S. Navy's E-2/C-2 program has selected Internap Network Services Corporation, a global provider of end-to-end Internet business solutions, as its provider of on-demand and live video streaming services. Using Internap's content delivery network (CDN), the Navy leveraged Internet delivery to unveil its newest aircraft to aerospace, defense, media and government personnel worldwide. The event debuted the latest version of the Navy's E-2 Hawkeye, the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, an all-weather, tactical Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft that is manufactured by Northrop Grumman.

Category: Encoding Hardware
Winner: ViewCast Osprey Video Capture Cards
First runner-up: Digital Rapids DRC-Stream Cards
Second runner-up: Streambox Portable Video Transport, Rugged Version
The words "video capture card" and "Osprey" are practically synonymous. That's not to say that ViewCast doesn't have plenty of competition--most notably runners-up Digital Rapids and Streambox--but Osprey's been at the forefront since the first card hit the shelves in 1997.

Playlists, in effect, let you set overrides for several timelines at once, making DVD authoring more efficient. For example, if your project includes a collection of music videos, you can create a menu with buttons that let's the viewer play them all or select a specific music video (timeline). You create a Play All button that links to a playlist containing all the timelines and an end action that points back to the menu; you then create the individual music video buttons that link to each separate timeline with an end action pointing back to the menu. To create this navigation scheme without using a playlist, each timeline's end action points to the next video (the play all scheme) and you need to set an override for each video button pointing back to the menu (the play individual videos scheme).

* The viewer inserts the DVD into the player (called first play).
* The viewer activates a button on a menu (called link).
* A timeline finishes playing (called end action).
* The viewer doesn't make a menu selection (called end action).
* The viewer pushes the title or menu buttons on the remote control (called title button or menu remote, respectively).

Be Sure to tune into the DV Show as Host, Brian Alves and Co-Host Derrick Freeman, Video Streaming and Compression Specialist for GeniusDV, provide a bi-monthly podcast about Streaming Media. There will also be special shows coveraging many events such as: Flashforward, Streaming Media.com conferences and NAB. On the podcast you can learn about some of the most exciting streaming and compression tools on the planet. The cutting-edge quality and conversational style format gives listners an oppportunity to hear first-hand from top level executives about the tools that matter most. "The DV Show has become one of the most exciting podcasts to date and the production quality of the experience is simply amazing. It's a privilege to partner with the DV Show to reach the thousands that subscribe to their podcast", states Derrick Freeman.

Category: Encoding Software
Winner: Sorenson Squeeze
First runner-up: ViewCast Niagara SCX
Second runner-up: RealNetworks RealProducer and Helix Mobile Producer
"If you're producing in multiple streaming formats, or producing the same file to multiple encoding parameters, Squeeze is the clear winner." So wrote Jan Ozer in his review of Sorenson Squeeze 4.5, and evidently Streaming Media readers concur. New features in the latest version include batch-encoding files to multiple formats (Real, Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash, MPEG, and others), VBR encoding of Flash Video, and batch-encoding of files to different encoding parameters. Add that with video quality that, in the case of QuickTime and Windows Media, bested that produced by those formats' "native" encoders, as well as advances in speed that Ozer called "startling, almost incredible," and this already feature-rich tool became a must-have for large shops that need to be able to move from format to format with ease. Sure, other encoding tools might beat it for particular applications--such as first runner-up ViewCast Niagara SCX for live encoding or second runner-up RealNetworks RealProducer and Helix Mobile Producer for the obvious outputs--but for all-around, multi-purpose encoding software that won't break the bank, Sorenson Squeeze is hard to beat.

For those that won't have a chance to attend this years Streaming Media West event, we'll be providing coverage of the latest news on GeniusDV.com. The event is slated for November 6, 7 & 8th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. Some of the most exciting developments surrounding streaming and compression occur at the event so we look forward to providing you with all of the latest updates.

Make sure you download Microsoft's Silverlight plug-in. It's a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications (RIAs) for the Web. The plug-in is available for Mac and PC and unleashes the power of interactivity with the Windows Media format.

Lets Group Some Tracks!

1 When you first open LiveType, you are given a single empty track. Type something into the track via the Text Entry Box.

2 Create another track by going to Track > New Text Track and type something into it as well.

3 Select a track in the Timeline or Canvas and you will see the Grouping button to the far left of the track grey out (The Grouping Button looks like a chain link).

4 Select the Grouping Button in the track that you wish to group with this track and the chain link icon will appear.

Now when you move either track, they will both move in unison.

Getting A Clip To Play in Reverse in your Project

- Right click on the clip IN THE TIMELINE on which you want to perform the effect.

- In the speed field, you can either type a negative number (anything under or over 100% will also change the speed of the clip) or you could just click in the reverse box.

Now your clip will play in reverse within your project sequence.

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Preview.
2. Set TV options to either 4:3 or 16:9, and click OK.

Remember this is for preview only you will still need to set your final size in your render options.

Designating a Search Folder

1 Go to Final Cut Pro > System Settings, then click on the Search Folders tab.

2 Click on the Set button to navigate to a new folder or click Set to replace a previously chosen folder or drive. Choose clear to clear any choice.

3 Click O.K.

For those interested in video training total for Expression Studio you can get training DVDs from Total Training. This DVD bundle gives you the flexibility and freedom to bring your vision to reality--whether you are designing standards-based Web sites, rich user experiences on the desktop, or managing digital assets and content. Get up to speed on the Microsoft professional design tools and innovative technologies in Expression Studio with Total Training for Expression Studio which includes six DVDs of video tutorials covering topics on Expression Web, Expression Design, Expression Blend, and Expression Media.

Unlocking Movie and Texture Backgrounds

1 Within the timeline, select the track that you want to unlock.

2 Go to Layer > Lock Position to uncheck this option.

Now, when you select a texure or movie background, a bounding box will appear, allowing you to move this element.

You've just completed building your timeline, but something doesn't look quite right. The action in one of the clips seems to be a little off. Perhaps you didn't let the athlete follow through with her tennis stroke or maybe the actor didn't fully exit the screen before you cut-away. You're not looking to make the clip longer or shorter, you just need to modify the action within that clip. This is the perfect time to perform a slip edit, assuming that you captured enough media for that scene to make the adjustment.

Making A Slip Edit
1 Go to the tool window and select the slip tool or just hit the S key on the keyboard.

2 Click on the clip that you want to perform the slip edit on and drag it to the left or right to adjust the action within the clip. An overlay will appear showing you the amount of media that is available to you on either side of the clip you're adjusting.

3 When you are pleased with the clips content, Release the mouse button, then play through the clip to review your changes.

MainConcept Reference is the successor of the renowned MPEG and H.264 Encoders. The new transcoding application combines almost all available MainConcept codecs. It enables you to convert videos in numerous formats. The main application of MainConcept Reference includes all codecs as demo versions. The module based approach of MainConcept Reference lets the user decide which codec suits his demands. If the customer finds the desired plug-in, he only unlocks this specific codec and the rest remains in demo mode.

Streaming Media and Compression Specialist Derrick Freeman, from Genius DV, talks with David Trescot, VP of the Rhozet Business Unit at Harmonic on the DV Show podcast. The October 8, 2007 podcast also features Ben Waggoner, Digital Media Evangelist, Core Media Processing Technology at Microsoft talks about the features in Silverlight. For those interested in Silverlight and enterprise encoding this podcast is exciting.

Here are the steps to make the chapter markers work correctly in iDVD.

#1.... Make sure when you add your markers, that you are adding them to the
Final Cut Pro timeline (NOT inside the individual clips)

#2 Make sure you are pressing the M (Marker Button) TWICE. And make sure
you press the add chapter marker button. This will then add the appropriate
meta-data to each marker so iDVD will understand the chapter makers.

#3 Highlight your sequence in the Browser window, Go to File Export -
QuickTime Movie, and select the pull-down to add chapter markers.

#4 Drag your exported sequence into an iDVD template, and you will see the
scene selection option which will list the individual chapters based on your
markers.

Pipeline is an industry-first shared network encoder that provides flexible tape ingest into Telestream's FlipFactory & Episode products and Apple's Final Cut Pro.

Features:

- User-selectable SDI encoding to DV25, DVCPRO25, IMX 30/40/50 & MPEG-2 I-frame

- Cost-effective access to the tape deck by multiple users

- Real-time, reliable, external DSP encoding

- RS-422 deck control for frame-accurate ingest

- Software-configurable to easily add new formats & features

- Single-channel Pipeline available now - Pipeline Quad available later this year

On2 Technologies, Inc., a leader in video compression software and solutions, and Justin.tv, a leader in live video online, announced that Justin.tv has licensed On2's Flix Publisher Live encoding and publishing solution for its live streaming service. Justin.tv publicly launched its live, free streaming services this week, making the power of live video programming available to anyone with a computer, a web cam and an Internet connection.

Adobe Encore DVD lets you link to practically any destination in the project, whether it be a menu, timeline, slide show, playlist, or chapter playlist. You can set the following types of links to create navigation:

First play Specifies what happens when you insert the DVD into a player. For Hollywood discs, the first play link typically invokes an FBI warning. The first play could also display the main menu of the disc, if the copyright warning isn't required.

Title button Specifies what happens when the Title button on the remote control is pressed. Typically, the Title button links to the disc's main menu.

Menu Remote Specifies what happens when the viewer presses the Menu button on the remote control while content is playing. You set Menu button links for timelines and slide shows. Typically, the Menu button links back to the menu for the current feature.

Standard link Specifies what happens when a viewer activates a button on a menu.

End action Specifies what happens when an item finishes playing, or when you have specified a duration for a menu and the viewer takes no action within that time. End actions specify the destination to display next; this could be a menu (including the button to highlight), a timeline (including the chapter from which to begin), or any other DVD element. If a DVD contains video clips that can be viewed individually or in succession (such as outtakes or topics in an educational DVD), you might choose to have the end action of each clip take the viewer to the next clip, or instead, you could have the end action lead back to the menu from which the viewer accessed the clip.
End actions for menus are optional. You use them when you want to control the display if a viewer does not activate a button on the menu. Menu end actions are useful in DVDs that remain playing in a public place or educational setting. If a viewer leaves, for example, the menu can jump back to the main menu after a reasonable wait period, to be ready for the next person.

When I say pad, I'm talking about the fact that in order for FCP to perform a cross dissolve, their has to be enough media at the end of the out going clip and at the head of the incoming clip to allow for it.

Example: if your original captured media clip was 8 seconds long, when you set your in and outs for the clip, the in point should be marked somewhere around 3 seconds into the clip. It doesn't really matter where the in point begins Just don't place it at the very beginning of the captured media. The same goes for the end of the clip. Don't place your out point at the very end of the captured media, unless you know that you are definitely going to perform a straight cut into the next clip. The room that you are leaving at the beginning and end of clips is what FCP will use to perform the Cross-Dissolve.

Final Cut Pro ships with a basic set of templates. You can access these templates from either Effects / Master Templates menu, or the Generators Menu (within the Viewer window).

The first step is to design an animation using Motion 3.0

No Color: None
Orange: Good Take
Red: Best Take
Blue: Alternate Shots
Purple: Interviews
Green: B-Roll

Assigning a Label to a Clip

1 Select the clips in the Browser that you want to label.

2 Either control click, if you have a one button mouse, or right click, with a two button mouse, on top of one of the selected files and navigate to the Label option, then choose a label. Each of the clips, will be labled with the assigned color and if you pull over the lower right corner off the Browser Window to the right, your clips will be labled accordingly in the Label field.

Changing Lable Names

Go to Final Cut Pro > User Preferences > Click on the Label tab > Change the name > Click OK.

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In case you're wondering why you might still continue to use LiveType instead of doing everything in Motion, it's because LiveType treats each character as an individual glyph on one track. Therefore, it much easier to create animated path's where characters follow each other in a timed pattern.

However, Apple Motion 3.0 has a 3D perspective tool, LiveType does not. So if you plan on moving objects around in 3D space, you'll need to create your effect in Motion.

The September 24, 2007 DV Show Podcast from the Flashforward 2007 conference discusses Closed-captions for Flash videos. Host, Brian Alves, interviews Andrew Kirkpatrick Adobe's Accessibility Engineering Manager

Here's how it works. Locate and highlight the file name you would like to replace. In this tutorial I'm updating the CarsRacing.mov file and replacing it with the TrucksRacing.mov file.

Using a preferences setting, you can change the routing so that when an arrow button reaches the end of a row or column it moves to the beginning of the next row or column. You can also change the routing to be only horizontal or vertical, limiting movement, for example, across a row and not up or down.

To change the routing preferences:

1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Menus.
2. Click the routing preferences to select or deselect them.
3. Choose the desired wrap options from the appropriate pop-up menu.
4. Click OK.

Assets are designated as follows in the Transcode Settings column:

Automatic

Displayed for all non-DVD-compliant assets by default. For assets with the Automatic designation, Adobe Encore DVD determines the optimal settings for transcoding. Adobe Encore DVD bases these settings on the number, length, and size of the assets and the available disc space. You can specify a transcode preset for any of these assets if desired.

[A transcode preset name]

Displayed for all non-DVD-compliant assets for which you have specified a Project Transcode Preset.

Don't Transcode

Displayed for those assets that are already DVD-compliant. You can override this setting and specify Automatic or a transcode preset, if desired.

N/A

Displayed for those items, such as menus and timelines, that don't require transcoding.

When transcoding assets, Adobe Encore DVD attempts to maintain the highest quality (highest data rate) for the amount of video in the project. If you continue to add video to a project, the program lowers the video data rate to squeeze in the additional content. Adobe Encore DVD does not warn you if video quality dips below a certain level until you build the project or run Check Project.

IBC received more than 70 entries from around the world for this year's IBC Innovation Awards. These awards are recognized as something special, because they reward creativity through technology. This year's judges, a panel of international editors chaired by Michael Lumley, had a difficult and challenging set of choices to make to select a shortlist and one winner for each of the three categories: Content Creation, Management & Delivery.

Inlet Technologies, the leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced that the company has partnered with Thomson, the world leader in digital video technologies, to enhance content security during the encoding and production process. Inlet's Fathom encoding solution will feature Thomson's underlying digital watermarking technology, adding an important layer of traceable security to complement traditional digital rights management (DRM) controlling access to content.

The September 27, 2007 DV Show Podcast from the Flashforward 2007 conference discusses Creating Social Media Experiences. Host, Brian Alves, interviews Mike Sommers, Senior Vice President of Product Management at KickApps, a white label social networking software service.

In a preliminary summary of this latest report from Strategy Analytics Digital Media Strategies service, Mercer said that HDTV is set to become a reality. In a public statement, Mercer said that tomorrow's web users will expect service quality much closer to television and major content producers such as movie studios recognize that they will have to step up to this mark to win and retain web viewers."

Inlet Technologies, a leader in advanced encoding solutions, has been selected as a nominee by Streaming Media magazine for the publication's inaugural Readers' Choice Awards. Inlet's Fathom 3.0 is nominated for "Best Encoding Software" for its excellence in meeting the demands of anytime, anywhere content in the encoding process.

Check out the September 25, 2007 DV Show Podcast from the Flashforward 2007 conference. Host, Brian Alves, interviews Chris Florio about Interactive Flash Video. Chris is a professor of Interactive Media at the New England Institute of Art and the Director of Passion Records and IDV Media.

On2 Technologies Inc., a leader in video compression software and solutions, announced upgrades to its Flix product line to support the new VP6-S video profile added by Adobe to the Adobe Flash Player 9 update, code named Moviestar.

On2's Flix product line is the leading line of VP6 based video encoding and publishing software solutions for Adobe Flash Player. Flix software is available for desktop, server and browser-based applications for Windows, Linux and Mac, and is used by many of the leading web video portals and user-generated content and social networking sites.

Inlet Technologies, a leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced that the company is fully supporting Microsoft Silverlight, a cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for next-generation media experiences. All of Inlet's products, including their Fathom encoding line, Spinnaker real-time streaming appliance and Semaphore quality control solution, will provide the necessary encoding, transcoding and quality control support for all applications of the new Silverlight format.

Final Cut Pro has an incredible multicamera feature. There are some critical settings that you must check in order for multicam to work correctly within Final Cut Pro. 

Streaming Media Europe is taking place on October 4-5, 2007 in London. The conference put on by StreamingMedia.com is the NAB of the Streaming Media industry. The event has a number of amazing sessions to keep individuals on the cutting-edge of on-line video. Streaming Media Europe features over 50 international speakers focusing on both corporate and consumer business, technology and content issues involving online video in the enterprise, advertising, media and entertainment and broadcast markets.

In addition to the main conference sessions the event has 4 exciting pre-conference workshops covering the following:

Mike Savello, Senior Vice President of PC and Flash Market Sales at On2 Technologies, recently sat down with Gary Schafer and Peter Cervieri of ScribeMedia to discuss On2 Technologies, their products, and plans for the future.

In the 5 part interview below, Mike explains the wide use of On2's VP6 codec by nearly a billion users world wide for a variety of applications including web-based video and user generated content, and how many cutting edge media companies are now pushing the envelope by incorporating On2's next generation VP7 codec for HD based applications. Mike goes on to detail the use of On2's codecs and technologies in wireless applications, kiosks and digital signage, DRM applications, and more, as they continue to advance the technologies behind streaming video.

Check out the September 26, 2007 DV Show Podcast from the Flashforward 2007 conference. Host, Brian Alves, interviews Lisa Larson, partner in the design firm gotoGroup Inc., as she provides details about Flash Media Server.

Make sure you are running the correct Nvidia Graphics Drivers. It is a common mistake to use drivers supplied by the manufacturer.  All you need to do is uninstall your old graphic's card driver, and reinstall the correct one.  Then reboot. You should now see improved peformance when working with the 3D DVE or the Marquee Title tool.

1. Hold down Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
2. Your task manager window will now open and you need to click on the process tab.
3. Now click on to highlight EncoreDVD.exe.
4. Click the End Process button in the lower right corner.

Encore is now shut down properly and your computer will run normally again. I now make it a habit to check my task manager every time I shut down Adobe Encore.

Making dramatic menus is a very important part of building a DVD. It shows that time and effort was put in to the creating of your product. If you take the time to make your DVD menus something that is interesting, video thumbnails are a quick way to establish interest. A button can contain a thumbnail image of the video in the timeline to which it is linked. You need to understand the following concepts when creating a video thumbnail:

Placeholder determines size You use a single layer in a button layer set to serve as a placeholder for the video. The size of the placeholder image determines the size of the video displayed in the menu. If the image is not rectangular, Adobe Encore DVD calculates the smallest rectangle in which the image could fit.

Always rectangular, unless masked The video remains rectangular regardless of the shape of the image layer. However, you can overlay it with a layer (bitmap) or vector mask in Photoshop. A mask can hide portions of the image, forming a window through which the video plays.

Layer name prefix (%) The placeholder layer must have the layer name prefix (%). The prefix includes the parenthesis, for example (%)Rigging.

Destination timeline displayed A video thumbnail can display only the timeline to which it is linked, that is, its destination. You cannot play one timeline in the thumbnail and have the button lead to a different timeline. Also, until you link the button to the video, you see only the placeholder image.

Still or moving The thumbnail video can be still or moving. Animating video thumbnails is a menu setting. All the thumbnails on a particular menu must be either still or moving. You set the animation by using the menu property called Animate Buttons.

Looping or clipped A video thumbnail plays within the boundaries of the menu duration setting. For example, if the menu duration setting exceeds the length of the video thumbnail, the thumbnail loops, starting at the destination chapter (or poster frame if specified). You set the menu display time and looping of the entire menu in the Properties panel.

Poster frame Using the chapter property called Poster, you can designate a specific start point or frame to display. Otherwise, the thumbnail begins at the first frame of the destination chapter or displays the first bright (non-black) frame of the chapter if Animate Buttons is turned off for the menu.

Now that you understand the basic terms stay tuned for some basics on creating the video thumbnail.

The easiest way to create a video thumbnail button is to drag a button from the Library panel into your menu and then edit the button. (Many menus in the Library panel already include video thumbnail buttons.) These buttons are sized appropriately, contain a placeholder image with the appropriate layer name prefix (%), and include pre-designed button sub-pictures, which change the appearance of the button when selected and activated by the viewer.

1. Open the menu to which you want to add video thumbnail buttons.

2. In the Library panel, click the Show Buttons icon to display the predesigned buttons.
Drag the desired thumbnail button from the Library panel to the Menu Viewer. Repeat until you have placed all the thumbnail buttons you need.

3. To resize the thumbnail buttons, select the button layer sets in the Layers panel (Shift-select to select more than one). Then, using the Selection tool , Shift-drag a corner selection-handle of one of the buttons until they are the desired size. (Using the Shift key while dragging resizes the buttons proportionally so that they maintain their aspect ratio.)

4. Link each button to the appropriate item, such as a timeline or slide show. The text in the button is updated with the name of the linked item. You can also use the Text tool to select and edit button text.

Fortunately, you can use a combination of the 'edit selection tool' and the 'extend' function to create a timeline that includes all your clips at the specified duration.

Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announced the upcoming release of Nero 8, the next generation of the company's award-winning, integrated digital media and home entertainment software solution. Designed with consumer ease of use in mind, Nero 8 extends content beyond the PC, allowing users to easily create and edit, convert and share, rip and burn, backup and protect digital media. With Nero 8, users can enjoy their content at home, on-the-go, and online. Additionally, Nero 8 is built to ensure data integrity and reliability and is optimized for use with the new Windows Vista operating system.

Harmonic Inc. announced that its Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution has been selected by 'yes' TV for a new Internet-based broadband video-on-demand (VOD) service in Israel. 'yes' TV also utilizes Harmonic's high performance DiviCom high definition (HD) and standard definition (SD) encoders for its broadcast DTH television service. 'yes' TV is the leading Israeli direct-to-home (DTH) satellite broadcaster, serving more than 500,000 customers nationwide. The new Internet VOD service is being delivered in partnership with Walla Communications, a leading Israeli portal.

In addition to 2-day Video Streaming, Episode and Sorenson Squeeze for Mac Training classes, GeniusDV now offers Sorenson Squeeze for PC training classes. This is a 1-day class that teaches students how to take advantage of all the great features of Sorenson Squeeze. The next 1-day Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite Training for PC takes place on January 12 in Orlando, Florida. Many Avid editors have Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite on their editors but don't really realize the power and value of what they have. Squeeze is an essential tool to assist with many compression workflows and will actually speed up the time that it takes to get compression jobs complete.

Telestream announced participation in the Adobe Flash Media Solutions Partner program, supporting video and audio formats compatible with Adobe Flash Media Server 3 and Adobe Flash Player with its FlipFactory and Episode products. Expanding its business and technical partnership with Microsoft, Telestream announced Pipeline integration with Microsoft Interactive Media Manager. The Pipeline network encoding device provides media capture from tape or other baseband sources. Telestream also announced support for the creation of Microsoft Silverlight media presentations directly within its Flip4Mac digital media components for the Mac.

Harmonic Inc. has introduced Rhozet Carbon Coder 3.0, the latest version of its universal video transcoding solution at IBC. This new version of Carbon Coder features distributed transcoding across multiple machines, new Adobe Flash and VC-1 format support, server failover for fault-tolerant performance, and an automated quality assurance (QA) module to ensure the highest quality video output.

Carbon Coder's new multi-machine transcoding capability tackles the increasing demands of video transcoding by allowing a single transcoding job to be distributed over multiple computers in a transcoding farm. This feature is especially useful for processor intensive formats such as Flash, VC-1, and MPEG-2. Long transcoding tasks are split into segments which are distributed to multiple machines for processing and then spliced together to create the final output. This greatly accelerates the process of, for example, creating very high-quality VC-1 content for high-definition optical discs. Even on a single computer, transcoding tasks are accelerated by running across multiple CPU cores.

You add chapter points to mark a specific frame of a video clip in a timeline. Chapter points commonly mark the beginning of specific scenes and sequences. Chapter points also let the viewer skip forward or back through a clip by pressing the Next Chapter or Previous Chapter buttons on the remote control. You can link to chapter points, add actions to chapter points, or use them to place subtitles.

As part of transcoding to the MPEG-2 compression scheme, video footage is divided into contiguous Groups of Pictures (GOPs), which range from 4 to 20 frames per group. Playback of any frames within the GOP must begin from the start of the GOP, the GOP header. For this reason, when you insert a chapter point, Adobe Encore DVD places it at the closest GOP header prior to the current frame. If a chapter point already exists at the prior GOP header, the program places it at the next GOP header. The time ruler displays GOP headers as white vertical lines along the bottom edge of the ruler. The Monitor panel lets you skip forward or back to the next GOP header.
When you work with AVI files, these restrictions do not apply until you transcode them. When Adobe Encore DVD transcodes AVI files, it automatically sets GOP headers at every chapter point you set. After transcoding, the file is considered an MPEG-2 file, and the rules for chapter point placement for MPEG-2 files apply to that clip. The minimum allowed distance between chapter points is 15 frames for NTSC and 12 frames for NTSC.

Do one of the following:

1. Click the Zoom In icon or drag the zoom slider to the right. The timeline expands to show more detail.

2. Click the Zoom Out icon or drag the zoom slider to the left. The timeline contracts to show less detail.

3. Select the Zoom tool from the toolbox and click or drag over the area of the timeline you want to expand; you can also Alt-click to contract the timeline.

3. Press the plus sign (+) or minus sign (-) key to zoom in or out.

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced that its 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoder won Cable and Satellite International's Product of the Year Awards 2007 in the category of "Best Mobile TV Technology or Service". Having previously won the 2007 Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation award, this is the second win in 2007 for the 4Caster M2. The Envivio 4Caster M2 encoders are ideal for mobile operators wanting to enrich their offerings beyond voice to provide live 3G-based mobile video or DVB-H based Broadcast video services and for broadcasters wanting to repurpose content to address the multitude of broadcast video devices that are planned for release.

Harmonic Inc. announced that its Rhozet Carbon Coder video transcoding solution now supports the Adobe Emmy Award winning Flash streaming media architecture. Carbon Coder accelerates the creation of VP6 formatted video created with the Adobe Flash tool by taking advantage of multiple CPU cores within a single machine as well as multiple machines in a network. The result is a remarkably fast platform for creating video content for Adobe Flash Player. Carbon Coder also natively supports the H.264 format, which Adobe recently announced will be supported by its upcoming Flash Player.

"Flash technology has become the standard for delivering high-quality customized seamless Web video experiences to millions of viewers worldwide," said Kevin Towes, Product Manager, Flash Media Server at Adobe. "By working with Harmonic's Rhozet team to provide a solution for accelerated transcoding, we can help our customers spend less time encoding FLV files, process more video with the same hardware, and get time sensitive video quickly deployed on the web."

Instead of using a template to create a menu, you can piece together a menu using the predesigned backgrounds, buttons, images, shapes, and replacement layers included with Adobe Encore DVD. These items are located in the Library panel.Each button includes subpictures that define how the button looks when selected (highlighted) or activated. The buttons are in layer sets together with the subpictures, so you can adjust individual elements or the entire button easily using the Layers panel.

1. In the Library panel, select the set that you want to view from the Set menu, and then click the Toggle Display Of Backgrounds button .

2. Select the background you want to use, and click the New Menu button at the bottom of the panel. A new menu appears in the Menu Viewer, and the menu is added to the Project panel.

3. Add buttons and other design elements as desired. For example, to add a button, click the Toggle Display Of Buttons icon in the Library panel, and then drag a button into the Menu Viewer.

Now you can edit any item you need to or add and delete any item. Stay tuned for Adobe Encore training offered by Genius DV!

The Library panel includes predesigned menus that represent a wide spectrum of visual styles and themes. Many menus have a companion submenu that reflects the same style and contains a different number of buttons. The menus include buttons with subpictures (for highlighting when the button is selected) and fully styled placeholders for text. The buttons on some menus provide a thumbnail layer for video. You can use a menus as is, just changing the text, or you can swap out images that better reflect the look and feel of your project.

1.In the Library panel, select the set you want to view from the Set menu, and then click the Toggle display of Menus button to display the menus.

2. Select the menu that you want to use, and click the New Menu button at the bottom of the Library. (Press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to browse through the templates.)
The new menu appears in the Menu Viewer, and the menu is added to the Project panel.

3.Edit the menu to suit the needs of your project:
~Edit the text. In the toolbox, click the appropriate text tool. Then, click in the menu to create a new text object, or click an existing text layer and edit the text as desired.
~Delete or duplicate buttons as desired.
~Set links from the buttons to other submenus or to items in the Project panel.

Adobe Encore is a very powerful DVD authoring tool and stay tuned for Adobe Encore training offered by Genius DV.

Netbriefings will stream live video from the Seton Hall School of Law's upcoming Constitution Day conference over the Web and into a special location for the event in Second Life.

The conference's "Interrogation and Intelligence Gathering" program will be streamed over the Web on Sept. 17 for participating colleges and universities across the nation. Netbriefings is also working with a partner, New Jersey-based video production firm MIB Productions, to stream the webcast into a virtual Guantanamo Bay detention center in Second Life as a pilot program to provide an ongoing online platform for the discussion of constitutional, political and international issues.

FlipScan, the newest extension to Telestream's industry-leading FlipFactory transcoding workflow automation products makes its debut at IBC. Responding to the need to filter, validate and ingest high-volume source media for the growing number of video websites and broadcasters inviting consumers to upload user-generated media, FlipScan automatically scans, analyzes and processes non-standard source media against user-defined business rules. The solution is currently being utilized in the Getty Images Media Management Services (MMS) platform to automate the management of incoming media. Telestream is demonstrating FlipScan and its integration with Getty Images' MMS solution at IBC. You can visit the company in Stand 7.411 at the International Broadcasters Convention

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, and broadcast infrastructure provider National Grid Wireless are teaming up to deliver streamed TV, alongside VoIP and data, across a WiMAX network. The network, which uses a full head-end with an Envivio Mobile TV encoder, will be available throughout the RAI Congress Centre during IBC2007 from September 7 - 11, 2007. Deploying the open systems-based solution enables mobile WiMAX operators to reach the three screens of video - TVs, PCs and mobile phones - and supports a variety of revenue generating business models by providing subscribers with anytime, anywhere connection capabilities.

GeniusDV, a digital video training center in Orlando, Florida, features streaming classes that utilize Flowerfire's log file analysis software, called Sawmill. The company uses Sawmill Professional to walk students through the process of creating profiles for analyzing log files for web servers and streaming servers. The Sawmill software can process 750 types of log files. The software can process log files from Helix Universal Server, Windows Media Streaming Server, QuickTime Streaming Server, Flash Media Server and Wowza Media Server.

Telestream, the leader in encoding-based media workflow solutions, today announced expansion of its Episode Series media encoding applications for the Mac to simplify a greater number of specific digital media workflows for Apple professionals. Episode Engine, the ultra-fast server encoding solution now provides faster than real-time HD encoding directly to leading broadcast servers. Avid integration now automates file transfer between Avid editorial environments and Episode, enabling optimized encoding for multiple new media distribution outlets. A new Image Sequence Importer now imports large film sequence files into Episode for encoding to virtually any format for editing, review and approval, or distribution.

Along with your Timeline the monitor panel is an essential part of Adobe Encore. The Monitor panel lets you view and play the content of the current timeline or slideshow, as well as add and edit subtitles and chapter points. It displays the frame marked by the timeline's current-time indicator and can play all or portions of the timeline. If the selected timeline contains multiple audio or subtitle tracks, you determine which track to play by activating the track using the track selector.

The Monitor panel includes the following controls:

The Timeline is where you will spend most of your time in Adobe Encore, so understanding what each function does and how to use them is very important to your DVD creation. The Timeline Viewer can include each timeline you create. You can select a timeline from the tab at the top of the Timeline Viewer. Each timeline includes a time ruler, a video track, and optional tracks for audio and subtitles. The time scale used in the ruler depends on the editing timebase of the project: either 29.97 fps for NTSC media or 25 fps for PAL media. You place the assets and subtitles on the tracks below the ruler.

Here is a list of what each function in your timeline does:

If you purchased the Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite software and you're still using version 4.5.5 you should upgrade to version 4.5.6 which is available as a download on the Sorenson Media website. Upgrading will make you more compatible with QuickTime 7.2 and will help prevent encoding isssues.

Understanding the Adobe Encore Timeline and how it works is very important to your success in building your DVDs. DVDs can contain multiple features, such as movies or slide shows. For example, a wedding DVD might have separate videos of the bride and groom getting ready, the ceremony, and highlights of the reception, along with a slide show of wedding photos. You arrange the necessary assets of each feature--video clips or still images, the main audio, and possibly supplemental audio and subtitles--into timelines, graphic representations of a feature over time.
Depending on its complexity, your project may consist of a single timeline or several timelines. You can place multiple video clips, audio clips, and still images in a single timeline, or you can place these items in separate timelines. Each timeline contains tracks for the assets of a feature. Video, audio, and subtitles all appear on separate tracks. You can create a slide show by adding still images to a timeline, but the Slideshow Viewer offers more options.
I will take the next week or shwo and we will dive deeper into the Adobe Encore Timeline.

When editing with Avid or any other editing application drive speed is very important. The manufacture of your drive normally lists the speed of the drive but this may not be accurate or through time you may have a problem in your system either with the drive or maybe a cable. There is a great utility called HD_Speed produced by Steel Bytes. This tests the speed of all of your drives including your CD or DVD rom. This is a freeware and is a fast download. Measures both sustained and burst data transfer rates of your hard disks, cd/dvd-roms and floppy. Real-time graphical display. Download it today and make sure you are running at full capacity!

You can even download additional automater actions that provide functionality to create a 'Magic DVD'. In other words, you could drag some media files onto a automater icon, and a DVD would be created automatically! Or you could create an action that exports media for the iPod. The possibilities are endless. After you've created your Automator action, you simply drag your files onto the 'Automator Robot' and everything is processed automatically.

For those who program with Apple Script, you can even create your own Automator actions that tie to your favorite programs. Fortunately, the Automater comes with a hefty set of prebuilt action for a variety of built-in programs that ship with OS X. Better yet, if you have Final Cut Studio installed, there are several pre-built actions that take advantage of SoundTrack Pro's capabilities.

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create an Automator action to automatically convert audio files to 48 KHz.

Flip4Mac WMV is not currently compatible with QuickTime 7.2. When encoding WMV files with with Flip4Mac WMV v.2.1.2 using uncompressed audio sources on QuickTime 7.2 systems, you will receive "Inconsistent Audio Sample Rate" error and the encode will fail. This affects Flip4Mac WMV Studio, Studio Pro, Studio Pro HD versions.

Update now to version 2.1.3.5

If you are using Flip4Mac WMV Studio, Studio Pro, Studio Pro HD using QuickTime 7.2 should update to Flip4Mac WMV v.2.1.3.5 now to avoid errors with audio compression.

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, has licensed the new Microsoft VC-1 Encoder to support Windows Media Video (VC-1) within the Envivio Convergence Generation headend solution. The solution features the Envivio 4Caster C4 multichannel IP encoder for IPTV and Internet TV applications. Available today, the C4 can be configured to simultaneously encode in multiple resolutions supplying a multiscreen solution for operators wanting to expand their IP-based digital video services. At IBC2007, held in Amsterdam from September 6 - 11, 2007, the professional VC-1 encoding capabilities of the 4Caster C4 encoder will be demonstrated on the Microsoft stand in the Topaz Lounge.

1 First, you must remap the Add Edit function to a key from the Keyboard Layout Menu. Go to Tools > Keyboard Layout > Customize.

2 Type in the words add edit into the search bar located in the upper right of the window in order to locate the function.

3 Unlock the Keyboard Layout by cliking on the lock icon at the bottom left corner of the window, then drag the Add Edit icon to a key to replace a function that you use the least. In this example, I have remapped my numeral 1 key. Close the Custom keybaord Layout menu.

4 Click on the generator menu, which is located in the lower right hand corner of the Viewer Window and choose the slug option. You will then see that slug has been loaded into the Viewer.

5 After you have laid down your music to an audio track, edit in the slug as you would any other clip, then use the A tool (the selection tool), to fully extend the slug. More than likely, the music that you have selected will be much longer than the slug. You can either extend the edit points for the slug clip in the viewer or keep editing in the slug clip to increase its length.

6 Lock your audio track(s).

7 Now you can press the space bar to play your audio track and hit the 1 key (or whatever key you mapped the add edit function to) to add an edit point on the fly as you find a rhythm to your music track. This will work best if have been previously familiar with the song that you are using and have become acquainted with its rhythmic variations.

8 When you press the space bar againg to stop playback, you will see that the Add Edit points have been placed into your slug track.

9 Place the timeline idicator bar in the middle of one of the slug clips, this will work best if you temporarily deactivate the Snapping capability in the timeline by pressing the N key, then load a video clip into the Viewer Window by double clicking on it in the Browser Window. Click the Replace Edit key and you will see that the slug where the position indicator was parked over has been replaced by the clip in the Viewer.

You can do this for all of the add edits you have created within the slug track, then use the Slip Tool along with various others to capture the action in the clips you have laid down and to fine-tune your sequence.

Learn how to use the Slip Tool and perform Ripple Editing in Final Cut Pro!.

The MPEG Industry Forum, the world's largest advocacy group for the promotion of MPEG technologies, is pleased to announce that the following 23 member companies will be exhibiting at IBC 2007 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between Friday, 7 September and Tuesday, 11 September 2007.

Streaming Media West 2007 plans to be loaded with workshops and presentations from some of the best in the industry as it relates to streaming and compression. One of the most exciting workshops on the agenda will given by by Ben Waggoner, Program Manager, for Video Encoding in Microsoft's Professional Content Group.

For those attending the conference the workshop teaches you how to use Expression Media Encoder to publish live and on-demand content to Microsoft Silverlight. You'll also learn techniques for getting the most out of the VC-1 codec over the Web and get expert advice on how to update your existing Windows Media site to a Silverlight experience.

Internap Network Services Corporation is a leading Internet solutions company that provides "The Ultimate Online Experience" by managing, delivering and distributing applications and content with unsurpassed performance and reliability. With a global platform of data centers, managed IP services, a content delivery network (CDN), and content monetization services, Internap frees its customers to innovate their business and create new revenue opportunities.

Learn more about Internap Services at these upcoming events:

- Sep 19-21 Flash Forward (Boston)
- Sep 30 - Oct 3 MAX Adobe Show (Chicago)
- Oct 4-5 Streaming Media Europe (London)
- Nov 6-8 Streaming Media West (San Jose)
- Nov 6-7 Ad Tech - (New York)

When you are DVD authoring it is important that you have control of the final output. You have many different avenues to distribute your DVD and Adobe Encore makes allowance for that. You can change your encoding tasks to fit your needs. Included with the transcode presets are pre- and post-encoding tasks. You can use these tasks to make changes to the asset either before or after it's transcoded. You can apply a filter to reduce noise in the files before they're transcoded, or you can specify that a text log of errors, warnings, and settings be saved with the transcoded file. When you add encoding tasks to a preset, you generate a custom preset.

1.Choose File > Transcode > Edit Project Transcode Presets.

2. Select the transcode preset you want to add a task to.

3. Add tasks as follows:
To add the pre-encoding task of applying a noise reduction filter, click the Filters tab and select Video Noise Reduction. Set the slider to the level of reduction you want.
To add the post-encoding task of logging, click the Others tab and select Log File Details. Then select the details you want logged.

4. Click OK, and then enter a name for the custom preset.

Searching For Items In The Browser Window

1 Make sure that the browser window is active by clicking in it.

2 Press Command F and the Find dialog box will open.

3 Set your search criteria and click Find All. The Find Results window will open listing the results of your search criteria.

Keep in mind that the results listed in the Find Results window are not copies of original files, they are the actual files.

Akamai Technologies, Inc., announced the launch of its Large File Download Optimization technology, an integral feature of the Akamai Electronic Software Delivery and Media Delivery solutions that supports the optimization and delivery of increasingly large files, such as DVD software and high-definition video content. To date, Akamai's global platform has been leveraged by leading software, anti-virus, gaming, and media & entertainment companies to deliver many of the largest online files.

Telestream, the leading provider of encoding-based media workflow solutions, has introduced FlipScan, a new capability for the company's enterprise-class FlipFactory transcoding workflow automation products. FlipScan automatically scans, analyzes and validates incoming video, audio and metadata destined for the Web or other distribution platforms. Based on user-defined business rules, FlipScan accepts or rejects the content and sends notifications, eliminating manual intervention.

Proclaim lets people create live or recorded webcasts using a simple webcam or a more powerful video camera. The Web-based tool also adds PowerPoint slides and pre-recorded video clips to the presentation with the click of a button. Proclaim makes live-event or on-demand webcasting quick and easy, and for video editors and producers, it provides another distribution platform for putting finished work to good use.

It's time to start planning for Streaming Media West, the premiere Conference and Exhibition for Streaming Media. This years conference is set to take place on November 6, 7 & 8th at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.

Now in its 10th year, Streaming Media West is the only show that covers both the business of video on the net and the technology of streaming, downloading, IPTV and mobile video delivery. Covering both b2b and b2c business and technology issues in the enterprise, advertising, media and entertainment, broadcast and education markets, Streaming Media West is about more than just streaming!

Telestream will be showcasing Episode Engine, Flip4Mac and FlipFactory at IBC2007. Here are some details about each product:

Episode Engine

-Automated media exchange between Final Cut & broadcast servers with Episode Engine - backed by Telestream FlipFactory technology

This September, Inlet will once again be attending the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) in Amsterdam.

Inlet will demonstrate its real-time encoding solutions on the Microsoft stand [Balcony Mezzanine, Topaz stand]. See on-demand content creation for multiple screens - from mobile, to web, to IPTV to HD. They'll also show live VC-1 and Silverlight delivery on Inlet's Spinnaker streaming appliance.

One of the items that Telestream will be showcasing at IBC 2007 is their Pipeline encoder.

Some of the features include:

• Network-accessible SDI encoding/decoding device
• Flexible tape ingest into FlipFactory, Final Cut Pro, Episode
& other products
• Real-time support for SDI, DV, IMX, MPEG-2 I-frame
• Single-channel Pipeline & multichannel Pipeline Quad

You can add chapter points from both the Monitor panel and the Timeline Viewer. Chapter points are numbered sequentially and renumbered automatically if you insert a new point between two existing chapters. You can also add chapter points at set intervals.

When you place video or still images, Adobe Encore DVD automatically inserts a chapter point at the beginning of a clip.

1. Open the timeline to which you want to add chapter points.

2. Choose Window > Monitor to view the video as you add chapter points.

3. Move the current-time indicator to the frame where you want a chapter point.

4. If you are working with MPEG-2 or other video that you have already transcoded, click either the Skip Forward button or the Skip Backward button in the Monitor panel to see the next GOP header. Remember that chapter points only land on GOP headers in transcoded video.

5. Add Chapter Point, or click the Add Chapter button in the Monitor panel or Timeline Viewer.

Once you have imported your assets into Adobe Encore you may want to convert them into Timelines. This is not obvious at first but very simple once you understand how to do it.

In the Project panel, do one of the following:
Choose Timeline > New Timeline. A blank timeline is created, ready for you to add assets or Right-click the video, audio, or still image in the Project panel, and choose New > Timeline. Adobe Encore DVD opens the Timeline Viewer and creates a new timeline with the asset already placed on the appropriate track.

To place assets together in the same timeline, select both a video and an audio file in the Project panel and click the New Timeline button.

These are two quick ways to make a timeline in Adobe Encore.

This effect was done using by using the Luma Key filter and keying out the white areas of the smoke clip. You can obtain video clip art like this from companies like Art Beats. You can also create your own smoke by using Apple Motion.

to create this effect here are the steps:

The Wowza Media Systems announces the release of Wowza Media Server Pro 1.3.0. This FREE update will work with all existing license keys. It offers a number of significant improvements, fixes and new features, including:

Live Stream Repeater is now in full production release

On2 Technologies, Inc. , a leader in video-compression software and solutions, and Inlet Technologies, the leader in advanced encoding solutions for new media, announced that Inlet has licensed On2's live Flash video encoding technologies for integration with Inlet's advanced encoding solutions.

The keyframe editor within the Final Cut Pro timeline will give you a lot more room to plot keyframes. To expand the size of the keyframe editor do the following:

Click on the 'Toggle Clip Keyframes' overlay button in the bottom left corner of the timeline window.

Telestream, one of the leaders in the compression and encoding space prepares to shine even greater at IBC 2007. If you plan to attend IBC 2007 you need to stop by their booth to get the latest news surrounding the company . At the event they plan to make exciting annoucements such as:

- Direct access to broadcast media servers for the proliferation of Apple workflows

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence encoding solutions from mobile to HD, today announced its 4Caster M2 mobile TV encoder has made Cable and Satellite International's shortlist for their Product of the Year Awards 2007 in the category of "Best Mobile TV Technology or Service". Regarded as one of the industry's most prestigious and respected technology awards, it is designed to reward technical and product marketing excellence in the cable, satellite, terrestrial broadcasting and IPTV sectors. This year's Cable and Satellite International Product of the Year Awards ceremony will be held at IBC2007 on Monday, September 10, 2007 at the RAI Centre, Amsterdam. Attendees to IBC2007 can view the 4Caster M2 in the Mobile Zone at M393 and on the Envivio stand 4.260.

Changing a menu in adobe Encore after you have spent time building it just the way you wanted can sound like a bunch of wasted work. This is very easy to do but not obvious. If you want to change the menu design after you create and edit a menu, you can use the Replace Menu command. When you replace a menu, Adobe Encore DVD preserves menu settings, including button links, button order, and loop count. Here is how you do it:

1. Open the menu in the Menu Viewer.

2. Select a menu template in the Library panel, and choose Menu > Replace Menu, or click the Replace button .
The appearance and layout of the menu are replaced by those of the selected template. If the replacement menu contains more buttons than exist in the original menu, the extra buttons link to no destination. If the replacement menu contains fewer buttons, the buttons from the original menu are preserved, but in the style of the default button in the replacement menu. Both the original menu and its replacement must have at least one button.

The latest edition of the DV Show for August 20, 2007 features video streaming and compression and what tools every video editor and multimedia specialist needs to have in their arsenal.

Topics discussed include:

Wowza Media Server
Episode
Sorenson Squeeze Compression Suite
QuickTime Pro
MPEG Streamclip
Proclaim

MainConcept launched its new Partner Logo Program to enable partners to demonstrate that their solutions are working with high-quality codecs of MainConcept. For companies that have their applications, products, solutions or services powered by MainConcept Codecs then they are eligible to join MainConcept's "Partner Logo Program". It's free and demonstrates to customers the quality and performance of your solutions. Visit www.mainconcept.com to find out more about the "Partner Logo Program".

MainConcept AG, the world's leading provider of audio and video codecs for software developers, is pleased to announce that Corel Corporation has agreed to license its H.264 encoder technology. Corel is a leading global software company that provides full-featured, easy-to-use productivity, graphics, entertainment and digital media creativity software for home consumers, businesses, schools and industry partners worldwide.

1. Calculate the total disc space available for the entire project.

2, Calculate the disc space available for video. You achieve this by calculating the space required for audio, slide shows, subtitles, and motion menus (other types of content are negligible in terms of bit budgeting), and subtracting that amount from the total disc space.
When bit budgeting for projects to be distributed on 4.7 GB DVDs that contain a single stream of compressed audio, you can use the simplified formula of 560 / x = bit rate in Mbps, where "x" represents minutes of video.

The first task of authoring a DVD is planning. This planning can be as minimal as deciding to use a template to organize your family's vacation photos and video, or as robust as using project management software to coordinate a production team creating an interactive kiosk.
Whatever the scope of planning, you should understand what the project will contain and how you want to present it. By the end of the planning stage, you should have a good understanding of the following parameters:

A great example would be if you need a clean chroma key. You may have noticed that standard built in Chroma Key plug-ins that ship with Final Cut Pro sometimes do not provide the best controls for obtaining a good looking key.

That's where Motion comes to the rescue! Follow this short tutorial on how to send your Chroma Key elements into Motion so you can use the 'Primatte RT' filter. I think you'll find that the process is fairly easy, and you'll end up with a better key.

It looked like the Blu Ray format had the early lead, but now with Paramount and Dreamwork's announcement, it's anyone's guess.

Currently, Apple's DVD Studio Pro does not support burning of Blu Ray DVD's. It does support authoring for HD DVD's however. On a strange note, the DVD player included with Mac OS X can only play HD DVD's that were authored in DVD Studio Pro. This is true even if a compatible HD DVD player is connected to the system.

I hope the industry eventually decides on one format. Otherwise, things are going to be ugly in terms of compatibility issues. If one format doesn't win, the consumer will pay higher costs for players and burners. Just imagine, this would mean that you'd need to buy both a Blu Ray or HD DVD player in order to play both formats. Or, we'll pay a higher price for some sort of hybrid player that can handle both disks.

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So if you need a cool looking title, and you don't want to use Apple's LiveType, here is an easy tutorial on how to animate individual letters within Title 3D.

The incredible popularity of Web sites like YouTube and the skyrocketing prevalence of high-speed Internet access have caused an explosion in video communication, both for personal use and increasingly for business. Companies - and their sales forces, marketing teams and executives - are searching for new tools to make video communication effective, easy and affordable.

On2 Technologies Inc., a leader in video compression software and solutions, announced today an upgrade to its flagship Flix Engine encoding software with the addition of support for H.264 video compression standard. The Flix Engine line currently supports transcoding to H.263 and On2 TrueMotion VP6 compression schemes for the popular FLV format used by Adobe Flash Player 8 and 9, and H.263 3GPP format used in the mobile video industry. On2 will further expand H.264 support in its Flix product line of desktop, server, and browser based encoding solutions.

Envivio Inc., the leading technology provider of IP video convergence solutions from mobile to HD, introduced the world's first reconfigurable multichannel and multiplatform IP video encoding architecture for IPTV, Internet TV and mobile TV services. The Trans4M architecture enables a service provider to reconfigure the Envivio Trans4M-based encoders to generate video streams supporting the "3 screens" of video - TVs, PCs and mobile devices. Envivio will demonstrate the Trans4M architecture at IBC2007 in its stand #4.260.

Telestream, the leading provider of video transcoding and workflow automation products, and Nativ, a leading video consulting and integration services company, are pleased to announce that Getty Images, the world's leading creator and distributor of visual content and digital services, has successfully enhanced its existing Media Management Services by leveraging Nativ/Telestream's digital video and systems integration expertise. The integration of Nativ/Telestream's video solution, including file transcoding and metadata extraction, enables Getty Images to provide comprehensive support and management of different media file types required by its Media Manager Services customers, from low resolution to broadcast quality video files.

Avid has a great new plug in that speeds up the process of getting your sequences straight into YouTube. You will have the ability to easily create a Send To template that will export a QuickTime movie and launch the YouTube upload web-page simultaneously. This is very useful and a great way to get your sequences from your Avid timeline to YouTube. Check out the full details and the step-by-step instructions and do not forget to download the .bat file at the bottom of the tutorial. Also our latest Avid training class is filling up quickly so do not sign up soon and get a seat in one of the most personalized Avid training classes in the country!

Here's the problem:

DV-NTSC is an interlaced video format that draws all the even fields first, and then all the odd fields next. This is perfectly fine when played back on an interlaced television.

However, when you play an interlaced movie on a progressive monitor, such as a computer monitor, you end up seeing both odd and even fields blended into one frame. The result often looks terrible, especially on shots with a lot of motion.

Well, fortunately there is a quick fix that may help you compress the audio levels so you do not need to spot check every single edit. It’s called compressor / limiter. Here is out it works:

If you are wondering the differences between Avid Media Composer and Xpress Pro then you need to look no further. The main differences are the available formats, media delivery features and resolutions you have the option of working with in Media Composer versus Xpress Pro. There are 25 more resolutions available in Media Composer than in Xpress Pro and most of the HD resolutions in Xpress Pro only allow 1 stream. Media Composer allows you to adjust motion effects and Xpress Pro only has presets. These only scratch the surface of differences, for full details checkout this chart and see if the added features in Media Composer are for you and don't forget Genius Dv offers both Media Composer and Xpress Pro training classes!

I always like to stay on top of the latest movies and what the editors are using to put together the latest blockbuster! This summer, Jason Bourne returns to unlock the secrets of his mysterious past in The Bourne Ultimatum, the latest espionage thriller in the popular film franchise. Matt Damon stars as the memory-challenged international spy, Jason Bourne, who must outwit the authorities and an assortment of assassins who keep him constantly on the run. Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum, this installment promises to uncover the truth behind Bourne’s dangerous and never-ending search for his own identity.

"I equate the Avid (system) to being part of the editing team. There is no way we could get everything done with this kind of time crunch without the ability to add machines
and people and just keep working."
-Mark Fitzgerald, Additional Editor, The Bourne Ultimatum

Some members of the editing team, such as Malina, also used their own Macintosh-based laptops equipped with Avid Xpress Pro software to handle a quick comp or other offline task. The easy exchange of media and files between the Macintosh- and Windows-based systems gave them the flexibility to handle a one-time job speedily and keep the project moving smoothly.

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You can trim a transition on either the outgoing side (A-side or tail), the incoming side (B-side or head), or both sides (dual-roller). Understanding what each version of Trim mode does is critical to successful trimming. You can use a single roll trim or a dual roll trim depending upon what you are trying to achieve. With a dual-roller trim you are not adding any more content to your program. You are simply either adding more and taking away from one shot or the other. This can appear to be very complex yet once you start playing with the basics of trimming you will find it to be very simple ans straight forward. If you perform and single-roller trim then you are adding footage from one clip. This can be done from either side and will lengthen your timeline. I will spend time breaking each down and how to use each one over the next few entires. Here are the ways you can enter and exit trim mode.

To enter trim mode:

1. Park on the transition you want to trim and press the Trim mode key
on the keyboard.

2. Lasso the transitions in the timeline. Draw the lasso by clicking at a point above the top track in the Timeline and by dragging to surround the transitions. You can drag from right to left or from left to right, and you can lasso single transitions across several contiguous tracks.

To exit trim mode:

Click the Trim Mode button on the Tool palette.

1. Press the Right Arrow key or the Left Arrow key.

2. Press Esc.

3. Click a specific location in the Timecode (TC1) track at the bottom of the Track Selector panel. The position indicator moves to that location.

Stay-tuned for more trimming tips.

For individuals or organizations that are interested in delivering simple Live or Archived webcasts in Flash video format along with PowerPoint slides there's a great tool called Proclaim that can help assist you. The tool is amazing and is available from NetBriefings, the large webcasting experts. Users of Proclaim can record video of themselves from a web cam or attached firewire camera by logging into the Proclaim on-line console. The on-line console allows users to advance their presentation slides as well as do roll-in videos. Now the best element about the tool is that your on-line video webcast can be recorded directly for playback later or you can send an e-mail link so others can watch.

"We are extremely pleased and proud that MPEGIF, through events and activities such as our MPEGIF Master Classes and our MPEGIF Logo Qualification Program, has significantly contributed to the fact that MPEG-4 AVC / H.264 is the clear choice by operators and service providers launching next generation video and TV services for broadcast (SD, HD), internet and mobile as well as for packaged media." said Sebastian Moeritz, President, MPEG Industry Forum and CEO dicas.

Knowing the keyboard shortcuts for any given program will greatly increase your workflow speed. Some overlooked shortcuts are the bin shortcuts in the Avid application. Of course you won't use them all but knowing just a few key shortcuts will help your speed up your day. The bin shortcuts are very important shortcuts to know and utilize. Here is the list of general bin shortcuts:

Ctrl + N Creates new bin
Ctrl + A Selects all items in a bin or project
Ctrl + W Closes the open window or dialog box
Ctrl + P Prints active bin
Ctrl + D Duplicates selected clip, sequence, or title
Ctrl + I Opens Console window
Shift + Ctrl + click Bin Menu Alternates Relink and Unlink commands in the Bin menu
Alt + drag clips between bins Copies clips instead of moving them.

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A critical mistake is to leave this button set to 'yellow' or 'yellow/green', because you won't be outputting at full quality.

Solid Yellow: 1/16 single field quality (optimum for heavy effects editing with maximum real-time effects)

Yellow / Green: 1/4 single field quality (default setting)

Solid Green: Full Quality with both fields

With this being said, you will likely find it much more practical to perform this procedure with a single clip at a time due to the nature of Fit to Fill procedure, which we will discuss later.

Performing a Fit To Fill Edit with a Single Clip

1 Make sure you have the destination track selected for the edit.

2 You can either set in and out points for the edit in the Timline or in the Canvas Window or park the playhead over the clip you wish to replace. In this example, I have chose simply to park over the targeted clip. Keep in mind that you can also park the playhead over a gap you wish to fill in the timeline as well.

3 Double click on a clip in the Browser to load it into the Viewer.

4 Set your in and out points for the clip.

5 Drag the clip from the Viewer over to the Canvas Window overlay marked Fit To Fill, then release. You will see that the clip in the Viewer has replaced the designated clip in the Timeline.

There is a very significant consequence to utilizing the Fit To Fill feature that is woven into the very nature of its functionality and that is: the speed of the clip that you are editing into the sequence will be adjusted so that the clip can fill that space without changing the length of the overall sequence. For instance, if you placed a clip with a three second duration into a gap that has a duration of seven seconds, the clip will have to be played back at a slower speed in order to fill that gap. The same logic applies if the duration of the clip is longer than the duration of the gap that it is filling. The clip would have to play back faster in order to maintain the finite duration of the sequence.

To have matching audio that is 'time compressed', you will need to use an audio suite filter called 'time compression expansion. Better yet, you can change the speed of the audio without changing it's pitch. Here is how it works:

ViewCast Corporation, a leading global provider of high-quality audio and video encoding communication products, today announced the availability of a Web services software development kit (SDK) for its Niagara Stream Control Extension (SCX) 5-series streaming media management software. The new SDK will allow third-party vendors, content providers, and content delivery systems developers to build integrated streaming media offerings between their own products or services and ViewCast's Niagara SCX-based Niagara media encoders.

Once again I cannot stress the importance of meeting the NTSC color safe colors in your productions. Using Photoshop is a reality in today’s productions and meeting the standards set by the FCC for broadcast is a very important task if you edit for television. All televisions today are built to meet these specifications. You need to make sure that your black levels are set to 16 or 7.5 IRE and the absolute white never exceeds 235 or 100 IRE. To make sure that you always are within specifications you need to go to the levels adjustment.
1. Go to Image in the top toolbar and navigate to Adjustments.
2. Navigate to Levels and open the Levels dialogue box.
3. At the bottom of the box you will see output levels and change them to 16 for the low and 235 for the high.
Just remember the 16 equals 7.5 IRE and 235 is equal to 100 IRE.

The Episode encoding tool lets you analyze the frames of your encoded video file. In the Job Batch you can select the applied preset of an already encoded video and hold down the Control key and choose Open in Preview from the contextual menu.

When the Preview window opens you will see three tabs Source, Preview and Encoded. Choose the Encoded tab and you will see the result of the encoded video plus a graph of all the encoded frames.

Telestream, a leading provider of encoding-based media workflow solutions, announced availability of a major version 6.0 software release for its flagship FlipFactory transcoding workflow automation product line. Versatile, enterprise-class FlipFactory v6.0 software includes simultaneous transcoding while ingesting from tape with the company's new Pipeline network encoder, support for HD commercial and syndication workflows, a new Screen Subtitle option for open subtitling, auto-publishing of metadata with media to more video sharing websites, integrated 2-pass Flash 8 encoding, plus support for even more formats. FlipFactory continues to respond to the rapidly changing marketplace as more content owners deliver higher volumes of media in a greater number of formats to both traditional and new media distribution platforms.

If you are trying to upgrade to Media Composer and you are currently running Avid Xpress Pro you need to follow a few simple steps to get up and running with Media Composer. Before you can upgrade, you need to uninstall any older version of Avid already installed on your computer. Newer versions of Media Composer and Xpress Pro have separate applications, Avid Uninstallers, that make this process very easy. But older versions didn't have separate uninstaller applications. This includes Xpress Pro 4.8.x and Media Composer 1.8.x. So, make you sure check out the step-by-step instructions on how to uninstall your older version of Avid and don’t forget to sign up for one of our up and coming Avid training classes, seats are limited.

Net briefings is part of the next web video revolution with Proclaim. Proclaim is a tool that can be used to create archived presentations that contain PowerPoint and roll-in videos in MOV, .MP4, .WMV, .MPG and .FLV format. This can all be done in playlist form. You can also create live presentations or meetings with individuals that have web cams. The tool has some powerful features, especially for those that want to record themselves and then upload the videos to the web. The Proclaim tools takes advantage of the web cam and computer microphones that folks are using. This tool is a must see. Make sure you sign-up for a demo and watch the Proclaim training video.

Users of Cleaner Have a Chance to Switch to Telestream's Episode. Until August 31, 2007 owners can get a $100 discount for Episode and a $300 discount for Episode Pro.

Why switch to Episode Series?

Here's what's unique about the video portal provided by BET:

What happens to your original file after you delete it from Avid. A student of mine asked me this today and he brings up a good point. What he is referring too is he had a QuickTime file that we imported into Avid and it from that import Avid created one OMF file and two AIFF files. The OMF is the video and the two AIFF files are the left and right audio files. We ended up not needing this particular file so we deleted it from our system, but he still needed the QuickTime file for another project. What happens when you tell Avid to delete the one master clip and the three media files?

Having the ability to get your sequence back out on to tape as quickly as possible is very important. If you shoot in DV 50 or DVCPRO HD you are in luck. You can output DV 50 or DVCPRO HD sequences directly to a DV device. This lets you output without any loss due to compression and decompression.

You just need to make sure you are working in one of these following formats:

You can output:
DV 50-in any SD Project

DVCPRO HD-in this and only these projects: 720p/23.976·
720p/59.94·
1080i/50·
1080i/59.94

I'll focus on a couple of important 'keyboard shortcuts' that are easy to understand, and immediately useful.

This tutorial will walk you through on how to change the speed of a clip at a certain point, and then return to its original speed. Before, you begin I reccomend that you create an entirely new Avid sequence and practice this exercise using a single clip.

If you are looking to find the Read Me Files for and version of Avid there is one page that has them all. The Read Me files are great for configuring, determining compatibility, and what fixes have been made from the previous version. Avid has included PC, Mac and Mac Intel. The list spans from version 4.6 up to the latest 5.72. You will also find some extra documents at the bottom for Mojo and Mojo SDI. Now you can look up and see your documentation or see if upgrading to the next version is in your future.

Did you also know you can map any menu command to a keyboard shortuct with Avid Xpress or Media Composer? This is very useful for menu commands such as:

- Turning on-off the Audio Waveforms (Sample Plot)
- Creating Freeze Frames
- Displaying Media Relatives
- Full Screen Playback
- Activating Customized Workspaces

Every menu command can be mapped to a single key by using Avid's command palette.

Harmonic Inc., a leading provider of broadcast and on-demand video delivery solutions to service providers around the world, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Rhozet Corporation, a privately-held company based in Santa Clara, California. Rhozet offers software-based universal transcoding solutions that facilitate the creation of multi-format video for Internet, mobile and broadcast applications. The addition of Rhozet's software transcoding technology is expected to enable Harmonic's existing broadcast, cable, satellite, and telco customers to seamlessly create and deliver high quality Internet and mobile video programming. It is also expected to expand Harmonic's presence into the online video service provisioning market, where Rhozet's transcoding solutions are today in use by leading Web video content providers including Amazon.com, MSN and Yahoo!.

The $15.5 million dollar purchase price is comprised of cash and the value of approximately 1.1 million shares of Harmonic stock, as set forth in the definitive agreement. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is anticipated to close by the end of July 2007. Excluding charges for the amortization of intangibles, the transaction is expected to be neutral to Harmonic’s earnings per share for the second half of 2007.

Those interested in Streaming Media should download the latest Streaming Media magazine.

Some of the articles from the latest issue include:

Verizon FiOS: Changing the Video Delivery Game
Tools of the Trade Analyzing Streaming Media Log Files
Modern Times: Crank Up the Streaming Video Assembly Line
Case Study: An Internet Radio Value Chain Story
Streaming in the Ivory Tower
It's About the Experience, Not the Product

Operators of new IP-based television services and the technologists enabling them will exchange their views on trends and technologies that are changing the way digital multimedia is created, compressed, stored, delivered and monetized. IP is the technology that is finally creating the converged information delivery infrastructure and an ecosystem is emerging, with new video and audio codecs, new middleware and content protection methods and completely new viewing experiences.

I am so excited to let you in on a great new product from Adobe. It is called OnLocation and you need to take a good hard look at this before you go out on your next shoot. Adobe OnLocation CS3 (Windows only) is powerful direct-to-disk recording and monitoring software to help you produce superior-quality results from your video camera. Designed to run on a laptop or workstation, Adobe OnLocation CS3 gives you an impressive array of production tools to help you shoot better and faster while saving you time and money. The previous version of Adobe OnLocation was the award-winning DV Rack HD software sold by Serious Magic.

I reccommend that you keep a program called 'Disk Warrior' from AlSoft in your arsenal of troubleshooting tools. It will fix most disk directory problems. It will also fix most many OS X problems. You can download a full version directly from Alsoft's website.

Internap Network Services Corporation, a global provider of fast, reliable end-to-end Internet business solutions, today announced the completion of its origin point of presence (PoP) in London, improving Internap's ability to provide content delivery services on a global scale. The build-out offers superior content delivery to Internap's global customer base, such as BuyTV.com, Disney and Salesforce.com, utilizing high-capacity redundancy. Internap's content delivery network (CDN) is enhanced by its unique intelligent architecture, which is the industry's only solution that routes Internet traffic across the best path to improve end-to-end performance.

Many folks will be interested in this version as it provides the following:

Better compatibility with Google Video
Two iPhone presets
New Cropping Options
Can open and export AVI 2.0 files
Conversion of multiple MPEG audio tracks
Better compatibility with YouTube
Many other improvements

Further increasing its commitment to support IPTV service providers in China, Envivio Inc. introduced the world's first multichannel IP video encoder supporting AVS (Audio Video Coding Standard). In 2006, AVS was approved as the Chinese national standard. Available today, the telco-grade, quad-channel 4Caster C4 will be demonstrating encoding in AVS at IBC2007 in the Envivio stand #4.260.

Along with these stripes you will also receive one of three symbols at the top of the current clip located in the Canvas Window. A checkmark in a green circle signifies that luminance levels for the current frame are safe and below 90 percent. There are usually no zebra lines present when this lone checkmark is present.

The next symbol is a checkmark in a green cirle with an arrow pointing upwards. This signifies that some of the luma levels are between 90 and 100 percent and you will see the suspect areas shrouded in green zebra stripes. This is also an acceptable level.

The next symbol is a yellow warning icon, which means your levels are over 100 percent. This icon is accompanied with red stripes over the problem areas.

Press Control Z to activate this function and press them again to deactivate it.

On2 Technologies, Inc., a leader in video compression software and solutions, announced that it has released a new version of its flagship Flix Engine video encoding software designed for servers with multi-core processors. Through On2's new TrueCore technology, Flix Engine can use multiple processor cores to encode video in parallel, resulting in substantially faster video transcoding speed with a single Flix Engine. With TrueCore technology, a 720P high-definition video file can be encoded at 1.4 times faster than real-time on a processor with eight cores.

MyOutdoorTV.com, the world's largest internet video network for outdoor television shows, radio, video, and conservation information, announces the official launch of its website, complete with a state-of-the-art, searchable video player and programming
by many of the top names in outdoor television. The official launch caps a
year of development in beta version and venture capital investment funding
of the website created by three cable television veterans from the former
The Nashville Network (TNN).

StreamingMedia.com is now accepting nominations for the First Annual 2007 Streaming Media Reader's Choice Awards. This is a chance for subscribers and their web visitors to have input on what they think are the best products, services, and tools in the industry. The nomination form for vendors is available on StreamingMedia.com.