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Encoding Best Practices for H.264 Video by Fabio Sonnati

Watch this Adobe Max 2009 presentation by video encoding expert Fabio Sonnati on encoding best practices for H.264 video.  Learn the secrets of H.264 video encoding and how to leverage your encoding software to encode high quality video for the web. You can view a PDF of the presentation slides here Fabio’s  Flash Video Encoding Blog
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JW FLV Media Player - Website Media Player With Plugin Support

Jeroen Wijering’s JW FLV Player is one of the most versatile website media players available. You can easily embed it into your website to display any media format supported by the Adobe Flash Player. Now at version 4, the JW FLV Player has been in active development for many years and [...]
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Free HD Footage Download (720p): Water

This is the first free download offered by WebVideoTechniques. It is a free :30 clip that was shot with a Canon Vixia HF100. It has been slightly compressed to keep the file size down and converted to a QuickTime MOV 1280×720 at 30fps so it is easy to use with most editing software. Web sample version [...]
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Sorenson Squeeze 5 Released

Squeeze 5 Pro is the latest release of Sorenson Media’s professional media encoding software. The new release is a major upgrade in features and usability compared to earlier versions. Improved audio and video quality, faster multithreaded encoding, and smoother workflow are just a few reasons Squeeze 5 should be in your arsenal of multimedia tools. New [...]
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Free Magazine Subscriptions for Video & Internet Professionals

Here at Web Video Techniques, we enjoy free stuff. Here are some great industry magazines that you can subscribe to for free as long as you are a internet or video professional with a U.S. mailing address. Website Magazine Until now, there has not been a magazine that caters exclusively to the business of running a [...]
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SUPER Open Source Video Encoder & Player

The Simplified Universal Player Encoder & Renderer (SUPER) is the Swiss Army knife of video transcoders. It can encode and decode virtually any media file and offers a plethora of options for encoding web videos. Although similar to MPEG Streamclip, SUPER seems to be more stable, advanced, and user friendly and does not rely on [...]
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Download Free Stock Footage at stockfootageforfree.com

With over 100 clips spanning 10 categories and growing, StockFootageForFree.com is a great source for free broadcast quality stock video clips. All you have to do is fill out a simple form and you can download free fullsize SD clips (NTSC 720×480 29.97fps DV AVI) for use in your productions. Currently offering useful [...]
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Flowplayer: Open Source Flash Video Player For Your Website

Adding Flash Video to a website without using a service like Vimeo or YouTube can be challenging if you are not a Flash Action Script expert. Maybe you have a intranet or paid content site and you need to host the video files on your own server and want to display the files in a [...]
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OpenFootage.net - Free Open Source Full HD Timelapse & High Resolution Textures

Don’t have a camera that can shoot HD? Need HD stock footage for compression testing or maybe a few high resolution textures for your next project? Look no further than OpenFootage.net. Offering up gorgeous timelapse shots at 1080p, 720p, PAL, and NTSC, all of their content is available for free under a [...]
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MPEG Streamclip v1.1 - Free H.264 Encoding Software for Windows & Mac

Squared 5 has released one of the few free solutions for encoding H.264 QuickTime MOV files that includes a graphical user interface. Since it uses the QuickTime 7 Player’s rendering engine, you must have the free player installed. A side benefit to this is that it will allow you export to the same codecs as [...]
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