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During Shooting

The first step comes while you're producing your footage in the first place: if you happen to be a one-man show and you're doing your own taping, be absolutely sure to check your audio levels on your camera as you're shooting.  Most cameras can be set up to show some kind of audio meters on their display; as a last resort, though, almost all will let your plug in headphones and listen for gross distortion.

Ever seen your audio meters go into the red?  Marked those unsightly peaks in your audio?  Heard the raging distortion that happens when somebody shouts into a mic?

Telestream, the provider of Flip4mac, Episode and FlipFactory content repurposing and workflow automation products, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of European-based Vara Software Ltd., a privately-held company. The acquisition adds the products, technologies and employees of Vara Software to those of Telestream, Inc., a privately-held US-based company. Vara Software brings successful, award-winning live production and streaming products to the Telestream product family. The acquisition expands Telestream's reach beyond encoding-based media workflow solutions for leading broadcast, media and entertainment companies to include powerful tools for real-time creation and distribution of video content over the Web for a broad range of businesses.

Vara Software provides real-time production tools, including webcasting, screencasting and rich media presentation products for entertainment, corporate communications, education and training. Webcasting allows companies to reach large, dispersed audiences by distributing content over the Internet, either live or on demand. Screencasting combines screen captures, video recordings and audio narration to provide cost-effective software training and sharing of computer desktop activity over the Internet.

Oftentimes, despite your best efforts in production, you'll find yourself editing together clips shot with audio that sounds different.  Most importantly for our purposes today, some clips' audio might be louder or quieter than other clips'.  One way to bring every clip into the same volume range is called normalization - and, while audiophiles have good reason to turn up their noses, it's probably the best way we have to fix this kind of editing problem.

What does normalization do?  Read on now.  How do you actually do it?  Tune in again tomorrow for the cheat sheet ...

RipCode, Inc. announced the addition of Real-Time Stream Transcoding to its solution portfolio, creating the only dual-application transcode platform for both video on-demand and live video broadcast available from a single RU appliance.  Powered by its high density, DSP-based video transcoding appliance, RipCode's Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution gives mobile video streaming and mobile TV broadcast customers the best video quality achieved through RipCode optimized codecs over IP or broadcast networks.

Supporting simultaneous, multi-channel ingest from satellite and studio feeds to mobile broadcast and mobile streaming, RipCode's Real-Time Stream Transcoding solution supports video delivery over current and next generation networks including: 3GPP and 3GPP2, DVB-H, MBMS, ATSC, and Qualcomm MediaFlo.