Thursday, May 15, 2008

Check out Flash media encoder 2.5

Flash Media Encoder 2.5

Adobe® Flash® Media Encoder 2.5 software is designed to enable you to capture live audio and video while streaming it in real time to Flash Media Server software or Flash Video Streaming Service (FVSS). When high-quality streaming is your priority, Flash Media Encoder 2.5 can help you broadcast live events and around-the-clock broadcasting such as:
Sporting events
Concerts
Webcasts
Educational or promotional events

With an intuitive user interface that works more efficiently with plug-and-play cameras and microphones, and compatible analog-to-digital converters, Flash Media Encoder 2.5 features support for On2 VP6 and H.264 codecs to deliver high-quality footage that provides size and bit-rate flexibility. You also get full audio control with bit-rate efficient Nellymoser or MP3 encoding. To take advantage of the new Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) support in Flash Media Server 3 and Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3, purchase the AAC Encoder Plug-In for the Flash Media Encoder from MainConcept.
Flash Media Encoder 2.5 can also be tightly integrated into your streaming pipeline with command-line control both locally and through a remote connection. Auto-restart after power failures or other system restarts helps ensure that your live streams are reliably available around the clock. The new auto-adjust feature enables you to maintain a high-quality video stream in uncertain network conditions.

cheers,
Vishvas

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Adobe Master Collection

It’s Independence day here. My copy of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection has arrived. Huge thanks to Adobe and the Adobe Certified Experts managers, I now have all the latest versions of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Flash, Dreameaver, Fireworks, Contribute, After Effects, Premiere, Soundbooth, Encore, Bridge, Version Cue, Device Central, Adobe Stock Photos, Acrobat Connect and Dynamic Link. Whew!To install the entire suite of tools requires over 22GB of hard drive space - huge yes, but these days it is hard to get a new CPU with less than 100GB. Unfortunately this particular desktop I wish to install the Master Collection on has a wee-little hard drive capacity of 38GB. What’s worse is that only 20GB of space is currently free. Time to upgrade. Since the processor, RAM and video card are still up-to-snuff technology-wise I may simply upgrade the hard drive to a 350GB Seagate or similar. This will require backing up and transferring the entire OS and all currently installed programs. Not exactly how i would want to spend several precious hours on any given Sunday but, it is what it is.Once installed, my biggest plan is to experiment with animation techniques involving Flash, After Effects and Photoshop. There so much I want to do and so little time to actually do it - more to come…

Thanks Adobe!