Ozer has also published screencam-based instructional materials for multiple publishers, including, Video2Brain and Online Inc, and training and marketing screencams for companies like Adobe, NewTek, Matrox, Vislink, DVEO, Winnov, Telestream and VideoGuys.Īs a contributing editor to Streaming Media Magazine, Ozer has tested most cloud, enterprise and desktop encoding tools, and has written many articles and tutorials regarding their use. Since then, Ozer has written over 20 books on video production and compression, most recently Producing Streaming Video for Multiple Screen Delivery, and the Visual QuickStart Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro CC, both in 2013. Ozer has been compressing video since 1993, and wrote his first book, Video Compression for Multimedia, in 1994. Ozer is the owner and chief blogger at the Streaming Learning Center.
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The final section details how to use line continuation characters in your FFmpeg scripts and concludes with a lesson on live encoding with H.264. The next sections detail how to encode and package with HEVC and how to encode with VP9. These are followed by lessons on H.264 and HLS, including instructions on how to use Bento4 to package for DASH and HLS. The next section covers generic file configuration options you'll use for all codecs, including lessons on bitrate control, resolution, frame rate, I-, B-, P- and reference-frame settings.
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Then it details how to install FFmpeg on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers and provides an overview of batch operation on those platforms. The course starts with the technology primer that covers the basics of compression and encoding. It also includes a free PDF copy of my book, Learn to Produce Video with FFmpeg: In Thirty Minutes or Less (2018 Edition), a $34.95 value (check it out on Amazon). The course includes downloadable batch files to accelerate learning and production with PDFs of all lesson files for printing and note-taking. You'll become proficient in FFmpeg and will learn the key fundamentals of video compression, encoding, and adaptive bitrate packaging. This course will teach you how to produce high-quality video with H.264, HEVC, and VP9 with FFmpeg and how to create fully packaged HLS and DASH adaptive bitrate output.