Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Book'
Jan Ozer on Better Quality Streaming Video
Jan Ozer is a regular presenter at the Streaming Media East conference (see previous posts). This year he kicked off the week with a half-day seminar on Encoding H.264 Video for Streaming and Progressive Download, following up on his...
David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual
David Pogue has done it again, with his modestly named David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual, part of the Missing Manual series which up to over 90 titles. This book is chockablock with good, clear, sensible advice, highlighting...
Peter Shankman on Social Networking in Princeton on Thursday
Peter Shankman is a marketing pundit, CEO of the marketing and PR strategy firm The Geek Factory, and has a long history of inventive marketing stunts, especially leveraging viral marketing (see previous post). Shankman will be speaking in Princeton...
The Lean Forward Moment: Creating Compelling Stories
It's the story stupid! Creating compelling films or TV or even webisodes comes down to the story, but also how it is told -- how you use the tools of your craft to draw in your audience with a strong...
The Little Digital Video Book
Consumer video has gone YouTube. -- It's so easy and fun to shoot a short little clip on your camera phone, grabbing a brief slice of life (cool -- the cat in the toilet!), and then upload it to enjoy...
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 -- How-Tos
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 shipped in October 2008, with deeper support for developing advanced websites. Dreamweaver CS4 is easier to use, having adopted the Adobe interface design, especially for customizing your workspace. For editing individual pages, the new Live View...
Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed
Web video can be stupid pet stunts shot in jerky camera phone video and playing in a tiny window . Or it can be much more, using the compelling power of video to connect with viewers to tell a story...
Rick Sammon's Face to Face: Photographing People
"Anyone can take pictures, but not everyone can make pictures," writes Rick Sammon, travel and adventure photographer and author of some 27 books. And in Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People (O'Reilly, May 2008), he...
The Digital Photography Companion by Derrick Story
Prolific author Derrick Story will be in New York next week for PhotoPlus Expo -- teaching seminars and at the O'Reilly booth. Check out his recent book, The Digital Photography Companion (O'Reilly, March 2008), which crams both photo basics and...
Jan Ozer on Critical Skills for Streaming Producers
Jan Ozer certainly knows how to flog a topic to death! If you want to know about producing video for streaming, and especially understand the trade-offs in using streaming codecs, then Ozer has done an amazing amount of work to...
Jan Ozer on Comparing Online Video Codecs at Streaming Media East
Now in its eleventh year, the Streaming Media East 2008 show is being held this week again at the Hilton New York. It's a three-day event, with preconference workshops on Monday and two days of conference sessions and exhibits....
Peter Shankman on Social Networking
Peter Shankman is Hyper ... And that's a good thing! Peter Shankman describes himself as "living proof of what can happen when you harness the power of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and put it to work" -- with an...
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques
Flash video is sweeping the Web -- and you can be using it too. If you're new to Flash, you can encode your videos to Flash video to post on the Web, and embed then in your Web pages using...
Flash CS3: The Missing Manual
Flash animations make the Web come alive -- from fun little clips, to interactive tutorials, to full-up games, and now video as well. Yet multimedia development with Flash -- now up to Adobe Flash CS3 Professional -- can be a...
Smart Start-Ups: Profit by starting online communities
Intrigued by all the excitement about online social networks? Are you frustrated by the amazing success of apparently simple ideas -- photo and video sharing with Flickr and YouTube, online communities like MySpace and Facebook, tech tidbits like digg and...
IPTV and Internet Video
IPTV and Internet Video is targeted to non-technical managers and executives in broadcast and multimedia companies, to provide an introduction to IPTV and Internet Video networks and applications -- terms, market, and the business of IPTV and Internet broadcast...
HDTV and the Transition to Digital Broadcasting
HDTV and the Transition to Digital Broadcasting is targeted to "non- or semi-technical managers and executives" who want an overview of the high-definition / digital TV transition and the its role in business. It's part of the NAB Executive...
Jan Ozer's Adobe Digital Video How-Tos
With the impending arrival of the new versions of Adobe's Production suite as part of Adobe Creative Suite 3 -- featuring Premiere Pro CS3 and After Effects CS3 Professional -- this is a good time to think about brushing up...
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