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Posts Tagged ‘Adobe’

The Broadcast Spectrum and Post Production

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 25th, 2010 • Category: Latest Posting

When we as solovj’s, backpack journalists, digital correspondents and/or documentary film makers talk about producing content for broadcast, in the past it was a clearly defined paradigm meant for traditional broadcast venues ie; television. Today, the broadcast spectrum is much wider – entailing not only television, but also internet content distribution to multiple platforms including [...]



Mpeg4 Videos in Adobe Flash Player

By Cliff Etzel • Jun 20th, 2008 • Category: Post Production

I recently became aware of the ability of Adobe’s Flash Player having the capability of playing mpeg4 video’s. Why, when there has been such great success with On2′s VP6 codec would Adobe make this feature available? My conclusion is because mpeg4 is a superior format to native flv at the cost of slightly larger file [...]



Adobe Online Seminar targeted at Solo VJ’s and Newspapers

By Cliff Etzel • Mar 26th, 2008 • Category: Content Distribution

Adobe is conducting a web based seminar targeted at those who work in the newspaper industry who are responsible for creating, editing and delivering video content for the web.



So what is the editor’s job? Vegas 8 and production philosophy.

By Cliff Etzel • Oct 13th, 2007 • Category: Post Production

Mike Jones has posted a great analysis of the perspective of what editing is and where it is headed. Of course, he looks at the so called professionals choice, Final Cut Pro, and compares it against my favorite forward thinking NLE -Vegas Pro 8.