Adobe Max Europe is over and some numbers were published by the official blog: 1200 attendees in Barcelona experienced over 200 sessions. They are now invited to leave their feedback and to log in the Max site for finding the presentations uploaded by the speakers. Since some sessions held in Europe link to the files used in Chicago, here you are my presentation + demo files (for the session Advanced Video Encoding).
I quickly post the link to the demo files that I’m going to use tomorrow for my session “Advanced Video Encoding” at Adobe Max Europe:
labs.gantico.com/archive/2007/adobemax/
Here you can download the presentation:
www.gantico.com/en/media/2007/10/max-video-encoding.pdf – (2,26 Mb)
The recent support of H.264 codec by the Adobe Flash Player 9 update 3 made me wonder about licensing costs involved in publishing H.264 video on Internet. I’m not a legal expert, but from what I’ve understood you don’t have to pay anything if your viewers are not paying a subscription or a title-by-title fee. In other words, if your content is for free, the royalties are for free till 2010. After this term the license will expire and you might have to pay as for free television, starting from $2,500 per year.
Not long ago I was tempted to abandon MT (Mediatemple) in favour of Site5 and actually I did it. Even if I had been happy with MediaTemple for about 4 years, I was concerned by the negative experience that a friend of mine had with them. Forums and blogs made me discover that some serious problems were appearing in their (GS) Grid Service Hosting.
Shameless self promotion for my upcoming session on Advanced Video Encoding at Adobe Max 2007 Europe! I’m going to talk about the best practices for optimizing video and calibrating the settings in video encoding, tips & tricks for the whole work flow and comparisons between codecs. In other words, I’ll try to give good advices for producing good FLVs. I’m updating my presentation with tests and infos on the H.264 codec, since it has just been announced that the Adobe Flash Player 9 update 3 will support it. It’s already possible to download a public beta of the player and experimenting an example of HD video.
We were trying for the first time OnLocation CS3 and Ultra CS3, during a meeting of Italian AdobeGurus. We improvised silly things in front of the camera, just to experiment with the disk recording and the chroma-key. The footage was supposed to finish forgotten or deleted, but I come up later with the idea of transforming it in a teaser for the site AdobeGuru.com (only Italian).
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