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Those that have Final Cut Studio or DVD Studio 4 installed on several workstations inside their internal network can look at Apple Qmaster and Compressor as an option for distributed encoding. This is one of the cool features of having Final Cut Studio and Macs available. Now before you decide to go this route you should know that the only way you'll be happy with the speed of the encoding on your encoding cluster is to have a fast network and fast workstations.

With that said you can create a Cluster with Apple Qmaster by turning on the QuickCluster with services feature in the System preferences of the Mac OS under Apple Qmaster. This option is only available for those with Final Cut Studio or DVD Studio Pro 4. Using Compressor you can send jobs to the cluster instead of to Compressor on your Desktop workstation. The workstations in the cluster can gang up on your videos to encode your output files which is very cool stuff. For example, when you send your Batch to your cluster each node in your cluster is used to process the videos which means encoding should be completed quicker. You even have the ability to check the status of your encoding on the cluster through the Batch Monitor on your client computer. A possible scenario is to have editing happening during the day and encoding going on overnight or when editing is not happening.

Many times updating Streaming web pages can be tedious, especially now since not only do you need to include Embed and Object tags in your authored pages but you also need to include the javascript code. This means if you're using streaming web page templates you'll need to make a file name change in three different places. However, if you're using at least Dreamweaver 8 this process can be easier using the Find and Replace feature.

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.

Two products nominated for a Streaming Media Magazine's 2007 Readers' Choice Awards where featured on a previous DVShow podcast June 25, 2007 Podcast. Both Proclaim and Wowza Media Server Pro where highlighted on the podcast. Host, Brian Alves, and Video Streaming and Compression Specialist for GeniusDV, Derrick Freeman, interviewed Gary Anderson, President and CEO for NetBriefings and Dave Stubenvoll, CEO and Co-Founder of Wowza Media Systems. Listen to the program to get a better feel and understanding of the two products.

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