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Ed's "I am a software developer and also a video producer" desk setup. It has never been orderly, not once.

Published on October 13, 2020 (about 4 years ago)

Ed Ropple
By Ed Ropple18 min readVideo education

Breaking news: working during COVID has been weird. For folks like yours truly who are holding down an office job, this means a lot of time in the teleconference mines. On one hand, some people (hi) l...

Color rendering differences

Published on July 29, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Matthew Szatmary
By Matthew Szatmary11 min readVideo education

Most people know some basics of color theory but what many do not realize is how complicated this becomes when we try to record and playback color accurately.

1964 World's Fair vision of weather monitoring in the future

Published on July 1, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder8 min readVideo education

Online video consumption is accelerating rapidly, and video Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have been instrumental in sustaining this growth.

Live Streaming Ingest Checklist

Published on June 22, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

James Williams
By James Williams9 min readVideo education

Regardless of how you choose to do it, getting your video into a platform requires consideration. But what should you consider to ingest live video well? Here’s our top 3 areas for consideration.

Old timey cash machine

Published on May 19, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Matt Tosi
By Matt Tosi11 min readVideo education

After hundreds of conversations on how to best monetize video, we wrote a post that covers some of the top monetization strategies to build a profitable business around video.

Video observability

Published on May 7, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons8 min readVideo education

An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.

Live streaming decision tree

Published on April 15, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich10 min readVideo education

Check out this guide if you're new to live streaming or just starting your research. We compare some of the most well-known live streaming platforms, including YouTube, Vimeo, Cloudflare Stream, and more.

RTMP broadcasting apps for iOS

Published on March 27, 2020 (over 4 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri7 min readVideo education

This is a guide to RTMP streaming. The post will show the review of the top 11 iOS to RTMP server streaming apps including Wirecast Go, Broadcast Me, and more.

Live interactive video like hq

Published on February 13, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Steve Heffernan
Dylan Jhaveri
By Steve and Dylan10 min readVideo education

Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.

I will find you and I will pause you

Published on January 23, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readVideo education

The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.