 This week the Adobe video solutions team is over in Amsterdam at IBC, Europe’s largest show for broadcasters. We announced new video delivery solutions and we’re highlighting our recent momentum that enables media professionals to create, deliver, and monetize premium video more efficiently and across more platforms and devices. Adobe is committed to helping our customers and partners streamline their entire creation to delivery video workflows for any screen and ultimately – help them find new
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 Matrox Video Products Group today announced the availability of new software releases for the Matrox MXO2 product line for Mac and PC. Highlights of the new releases include support for Adobe® Creative Suite® 5.5 Production Premium, capture support for Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder, and presets for new H.264 encoding parameters in Adobe Media Encoder.
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 Matrox® Video Products Group today announced support for Adobe® Flash® Media Live Encoder software with Matrox MXO2 I/O devices. The Matrox MXO2 family offers a full range of capture hardware solutions ideal for feeding live content to Adobe Flash Media Server software. Applications include field journalism, sports, live events, and distance learning. The MXO2 devices work with any system – Mac or PC, laptop or desktop – and let users connect to any HD or SD video source via SDI, HDMI, or analog
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 Adobe Product Manager, designer, and developer geek Doug Winnie discusses (and acts out) the most common designer/ developer issues in 2010, and offers predictions on how Adobe will help ease the pain in 2011.
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 The biggest bang of the year came with Apple's January introduction of the iPad, with a 1024x768 screen ideal for web surfing and video playback—as long as the website didn't rely on the Flash Player, which the iPad didn't (and still doesn't) support. Of course, neither did the iPhone or iPod touch, but with their smallish screens, they were best suited for primarily text only screens and full screen video playback, rather than video in a browser window.
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 Squeeze 6 is Sorenson media’s transcoding application. We compared the Squeeze 6 offering to Adobe Media Encoder, Apple Compressor, and Telestream Episode.
You can download the report in PDF format without logging in — this is a free report.
We have also created some screencasts showing you how Squeeze 6 performs compared to these others.
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 Join us on Wednesday, March 10th 2010 @ 2:00PM (EST) for a FREE webinar Featuring Sorenson Media Products
Sorenson Squeeze 6 is the first total video workflow solution, personalized for video professionals. With Squeeze 6 you get a seamless workflow, faster encoding and industry-winning quality.
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 This is the dawning of the age of compression. Consider this: you produce an HD news story in 1080i; then you need to deliver an uncompressed version for broadcast, a compressed version for the station's Web site and a highly compressed version for iPhones and other handheld devices.
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 Stand-alone compression tool to automate your work and package projects with advanced options - now with integrated delivery online, notifications, and review and approval process.
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 Once a novelty, Web video has become a staple of video production and viewing. “Very, very close to 100% of the projects that we do today have at least one Web video component,” says Emmy-winning producer Michael Kolowich. Formerly with WGBH and the founder of ZDNet, Kolowich is president/executive producer of DigiNovations
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 Sorenson Squeeze 6 is a huge update that gives you faster, easier encoding of media into a large variety of formats. Add the new Sorenson 360 Video Delivery Network and you're got an easy-to-use, full-featured publishing option right to the Web.
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 For all of you videographers, I think you will agree that the most tedious part of the whole process is encoding your project. Sorenson has long been the high watermark, but this time they have outdone themselves with Squeeze 6.
“Free yourself from mundane tasks and your desk. We feel your pain, we’re here to help. With Squeeze 6, your workflow just got easy: Set it and forget it! Leave your desk and get back to what matters most — your videos, your business, your life.”
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 Wayne Andrews from Matrox runs through the latest encoding technology, including accelerated H.264 encoding for Mac towers and Mac laptops with Express 34 slot. Matrox MAX technology is provided as an option with MXO2 products or as an H.264 accelerator PCIe card for the Mac. Matrox MAX technology uses a dedicated hardware processor to accelerate the creation of H.264 files for mobile devices, the web and Blu-ray discs. By using specialized hardware acceleration, jobs are finished with superior
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 I read a press release about a new product from Matrox called CompressHD, and I had a warm and fuzzy feeling all over. I contacted Matrox and asked them if it was possible to get a review unit and they were nice enough to send it out a week later. While it’s 4-5x the cost of the Turbo.264 USB key, (depending on which one you compare it to, the first SD key or the more recent HD version) it has some great benefits that make the cost worthwhile. I’ve been using it for nearly 2 months now and it h
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Review: - Matrox CompressHD
October 2009
Matrox CompressHD
The Need for Speed
Accelerated h.264 Encoding
Price: $495.00
http://www.matrox.com/video/en/products/compresshd/
by David A. Saraceno
Anyone involved with delivering video content knows how incredibly efficent and stunning beautiful the h.264 codec is. It produces exceptional video quality at impressively low data rates for both streaming and stored formats. It is used for streaming and messaging video deliv
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