I discovered something a little disappointing today. Apparently the H.264 encoder in After Effects and Premiere doesn’t make progressive download friendly files. When you put these on the web the entire file has to be downloaded before it starts playing instead of playing as soon as it buffers enough. Adobe says they are working on a bug fix which [...]
So I know this may be in the “shady” area of authoring, but I think it’s something I should cover. We have a client who refuses to give us their logo in HD for the FirstTitle section of the disc. He says they don’t have one and want us to recreate it in HD. But [...]
I made a few changes to the HDMV Flash Viewer. Here is the change log for those interested:
Version .12 – Made the menu center on the screen to create a “letterbox/pillarbox” effect
-Added variable named “f”. This is for framerate. Default is 24.
-Added variable named “s”. This is for Selected Loop. Default is True.
-Added variable named [...]
Tutorial 5 is up, and this time we go over how to set up and use the HDMV Flash Viewer. It’s not super complicated, but does have a couple tricky steps. Basic knowledge of FTP and web sites is recommended.
I have a lot on Blu-ray, so it has it’s own post. Let’s start with Sonic.
Sonic
Sonic officially released 4.5 of Scenarist Blu-ray, though the authoring houses have had it for a few weeks now. It has a much better interface, an auto-route button feature, and a buffer percentage feature. I got a tour of the [...]
I just got back from wondering around the Las Vegas convention center and am a bit overwhelmed with the number of companies out there, especially the ones I don’t know what the even do. I mean, how many distribution/AVC Encoding/IPTV company’s do we need? But I thought I’d list what things I saw that I [...]
I’ll be at NAB this Tuesday through Thursday. I plan on checking out a few things, but am most interested in-
Digital Rapids
Sonic Scenarist
Any Adobe Products
Cinamacraft
Sony XD Cam
Sony Blu-ray
Red Camera
Aja Kona
I’m hoping to see some new software and hardware from these products. I’ll try to take pictures and post anything cool I see. I know a [...]
I’m going to be using Flash to play any videos or tutorials I have on this site, but I’ll be using H.264 compression instead of the normal FLV compression. What does this mean? First of all, it means better looking videos at lower bitrates with fullscreen and HD support. However it also means you need [...]