Encoding Matrox Monarch: Specs and Details from NAB 2013 I’ve been yelling a lot about the Matrox Monarch since it popped up at IBC last fall: a stand-alone H.264 streaming/capture device that has no competition, but does have tons of uses in production. It was officially unveiled this past Monday at the NAB 2013 show in
Apple ProRes Output from Adobe Premiere Pro or Avid Media Composer - on Windows! Just caught wind (via FreshDV) of a free little program with big features: namely, it can encode to ProRes on Windows. Sure, you could use ffmpeg standalone or with a frameserver, but that’s a lot of hoops to jump through. What we really need is something simple enough that
Amazon Amazon's Elastic Transcoder: Clearing the Cloud Confusion “Should we do it in the cloud?” I get this question a lot. And with good reason – cloud computing has turned massive computational tasks into simple clicks on an interface or calls to an API. So when you’re building out a data management infrastructure, you absolutely need to ask
Codecs QuickTime is Not a Codec: The Basics of Media Files If one more person answers “What codec is it?” with “Quicktime,” I’m going to lose my shit. QuickTime is not a codec. QuickTime has never been a codec. Seriously guys, it’s 2012. We have fifty new cameras released every month, all of which shoot to a myriad of
