Avid, Final Cut Pro, and Streaming Training CoursesFinal Cut Pro, Motion, DVD Studio Pro and Avid training resources (866-566-1881)Announcements by Telestream at IBC 2007- September 22, 2007 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/announcements_by_telestream_at_ibc_2007.php Harmonic Introduces Rhozet Carbon Coder 3.0- September 22, 2007 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/harmonic_introduces_rhozet_carbon_coder_30.php Adobe Encore and Chapter Points- September 21, 2007 (Click Graphic to Enlarge) 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_encore_and_chapter_points.php Adobe Encore and Timeline Zoom- September 21, 2007 (Click Graphic to enlarge) You can change the increments displayed in the timeline using the zoom tools. Zooming in lets you move through the timeline more precisely. When zoomed in fully, each tick mark on the time ruler represents a frame. As you zoom out, you can see more of the complete timeline, and the tick marks represent larger increments. 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..http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_encore_and_timeline_zoom.php Envivio Wins Product of the Year Award 2007- September 20, 2007 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/envivio_wins_product_of_the_year_award_2007.php Harmonic's Rhozet Business Unit Announces Support for Flash- September 20, 2007 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/harmonics_rhozet_business_unit_announces_support_f... Adobe Encore Menu Creation using Predesigned items- September 19, 2007 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....http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_encore_menu_creation_using_predesigned_items... Adobe Encore and the Library- September 19, 2007 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..http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_encore_and_the_library.php Netbriefings Helps University Stream Live Event- September 18, 2007 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...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/netbriefings_helps_university_stream_live_event.ph... Adobe Photoshop Launching Issues- September 18, 2007 (Click on Graphic to enlarge) I recently was unable to open Adobe Photoshop. It was locked up on the splash screen and the only way to stop it was to either restart my computer or end it through the task manager. I did a little research and found that this is a very common problem. It seems the settings become corrupt and you will no longer be able to launch Adobe Photoshop until you delete the proper files. You need to either systematically delete files or you can delete all of the files to...http://www.geniusdv.com/weblog/archives/adobe_photoshop_launching_issues.php |