Richard Harrington

Richard Harrington A certified instructor for Adobe, Apple, and Avid, Richard Harrington is a practiced expert in motion graphic design and digital video. His producing skills were also recognized by AV Multimedia Producer Magazine who named him as one of the Top Producers of 2004.

Rich is a member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals Instructor Dream Team, and a popular speaker on the digital video circuit. He is also an instructor at the Art Institute of Washington and the American University in Washington, D.C.

Rich is an internationally published author. His book, Photoshop CS for Nonlinear Editors, was the first of its kind to focus on Photoshopâ's application in the world of video. He is also a contributing author for Final Cut Pro On the Spot, After Effects On the Spot, After Effects at Work, and The Photoshop World Dream Team Book, Volume 1. A Masters Degree in Project Management fills out Rich's broad spectrum of experience.


Saturday, August 02, 2008

Video Compression Workshop – Helpful Advice

Need to get your video delivered to your audience?  Then there’s probably going to be some compression involved.  Don’t let hardware or software get in your way. Let’s take a common sense approach to getting your video out there. 

Pick Your Power
There are tons of compression tools out there, but the pro apps offer important features like batch processing, multiple architecture support, and customizable presets.  The five most popular options are:

Apple Compressor (www.apple.com) Bundled free with Final Cut Pro or DVD Studio Pro.  However it can’t output some Window’s oriented formats and it is occasionally cranky (requiring restarts, trashing preferences, and even re-installs to get back on track).

Canopus ProCoder (www.canopus.com) a versatile PC-only solution for encoding video in a variety of formats.  It offers both a guided and an expert mode to setting up your jobs.

Autodesk Cleaner and Cleaner XL (www.discreet.com) The granddaddy of encoding utilities.  It’s suffered from changing ownership several times and hasn’t seen much development lately. 

Telestream Episode and Episode Pro (www.flip4mac.com) This product offers hooks into Apple Compressor and offers a variaety of additional formats that Mac users need.

Sorenson Squeeze (www.sorenson.com) An easy to use compression utility that also unlocks some specialty formats like Flash Video.  Version 4.1 (a free upgrade) build in support for Windows Media files on the Mac Platform by using Flip4Mac (not a free upgrade - $99/$179).


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Video Compression Workshop – Helpful Advice

Richard Harrington | 08/02- 08:49 AM

Need to get your video delivered to your audience?  Then there’s probably going to be some compression involved.  Don’t let hardware or software get…


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