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Jan Ozer

Jan has worked in digital video since 1990, and is the author of 13 books related to video technolgy. Jan currently writes for StreamingMedia.com, Digital Content Producer and EventDV.  In addition to producing seminars and for streamingmedia.com and the MCA-I, Jan instructs two and three day video production seminars for the Digital Media Academy.

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VP9 Takes One Step Forward and One Big Step Back

VP9 is the successor to VP8, the video codec that Google open sourced and included in WebM. It's also the only major competitor to H.265/HEVC. In a series of blog posts last week, Google detailed the final release schedule for VP9 and a few other im...

Ozer Book tapped for GMU Engineering Course

Ken Santucci, a professor at George Mason University's Volgenau School of Engineering, teaches Concepts of Multimedia Processing and Transmission, a class so popular, that it has a waiting list each semester. When choosing a textbook for the class,...

The Adobe Creative Suite is Dead

OK, a bit melodramatic, but today at Adobe Max, the company's annual creativity conference, Adobe announced that they were killing the suite to sell the Creative Cloud product which is only available via a periodic license. The primary benefit to the...

How I spent the First Half of 2013

Streaming Learning Center has been quiet for the last few months. Primarily, that relates to getting two large projects done, and making two presentations. The two projects were two books, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery, an...

Jan Ozer: Opening Act, NAB 2013

I was the opening act for NAB 2013, speaking at at 8:00 AM on Saturday morning for the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE). The talk was on Producing for Multiple Screen Delivery and a surprisingly enthusiastic group of around 300+ broadcast engineers showed up despite the hour (you can download the handout below). Not to boast, but I'll share a post-talk email from John Poray, the Executive Director of the SBE, who stated, "Our thanks to you! You provided a great opening for our programming. Tough to get people out at 8 am on a Saturday in LV but you garnered the largest opening crowd we’ve had since we started doing this in 1995."

Click over the main article to download the handout.

Ozer releases new book, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery

Just a quick note to let you know that my new book, Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery, is now available on Amazon. You can also read more about it and download a detailed table of contents by clicking here.  The book is a 432 pa...

From Russia With Love

R1.jpgIn March, I visited Moscow to speak at the Connected TV Forum. You can read about the trip and download the handouts by clicking over to the main article.

What Is HEVC (H.265)?

H.265/High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the successor codec to H.264, which, like H.264, is jointly developed by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group and ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG). The primary goal of the new codec is 50 percent better compression efficiency than H.264 and support for resolutions up to 8192x4320.

Portland Community College's Multimedia Program Switches to Adobe Creative Suite

There's been a lot of back and forth about how Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) has been accepted in the marketplace. Before its introduction, though Adobe had been making headway against Final Cut Pro 7 (FCP7), it's fair to say that FCP7 had greater mindshare...

Is it just me, or is there nothing more stupid in the world than Linked-in Endorsements?

Is it just me, or is there nothing more stupid in the world than Linked-in Endorsements?I got another this morning, from one of the hundreds of LinkIn connections who I only tangentially know, and who I have never produced work for in the field tha...