Here’s another video from an Adobe Evangelist explaining transcoding and why it’s not neccessary in Adobe Premiere CS5. I’ve explained transcoding in layman’s terms here on PCN in the past but it’s nice to see it done in context with bringing DSLR footage into an editing timeline. … Continue Reading
The idea of not having to transcode DSLR video footage really appeals to me so I have set aside my Final Cut Pro books and tutorials and started really giving CS5 a once over. This video tutorial from Adobe is a really good overview for getting started and setting up a sequence optimized for DSLR footage. … Continue Reading
H.264 is a codec used to shrink down high resolution video for storing, viewing or delivery. Think of the codec as the cookbook and H.264 as the chicken section. In a cookbook, there are many ways to prepare chicken. You can fry it, bake it, broil it, make soup from it, the list goes on. The same is true for video. Once you prepare it, you can burn it on a DVD, broadcast it, stream it on the internet, make quicktime movies for iPods etc. You take the same ingredient (chicken or video) and cook it into something that can be consumed in different meals or in the case of video, different media applications.
H.264 is a cooked (finished) format like fried chicken is cooked from raw chicken. The fried chicken is finished and ready for consumption. You might be able to watch uncompressed video on the web if you have huge bandwidth and time on your hands just like you can eat raw chicken if you want to, but there are better options.
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I know, I know – this is an old announcement but I randomly discovered this page on the Canon USA web-site with a lot more information about what, exactly, the plug-in is going to do.
I’m only going to put the first couple of paragraphs of the post here – read the whole thing on the Canon web site – but there are a few key features that I’d like to point out:
There is a full workflow example on the Canon page…
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Marcelo Lewin over at NewMediaWebinars is offering a free video encoding webinar on March 16th.
In this webinar, Andy Beach will walk us through some fundamentals of video compression, then show us how to apply them in some of today’s most popular applications including Telestream’s Episode Pro among others. Those new to compression will gain knowledge as well as old hands looking for new “recipes”, processes and workflows to improve how they do their job.
