One of the hardest choices encoding technicians have to make is deciding between hardware and software. Hardware-based encoders and transcoders have had a performance advantage over software since ...

Editor’s Note: This article was rewritten to incorporate answers posed in the original article and answered by David Ronca, Director, Encoding Technology at Netflix, and Anne Aaron, Manager, Video ...

I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

Apple's T2 chip in the Mac mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac Pro can greatly speed video encoding, but by how much? Now that Apple has two machines with the same CPU, one with the T2, and one without, there ...

Today we have our fourth lesson on the basics of video editing and we'll be taking a look at how you can export your edits to various formats using both Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 and Final Cut Pro Studio ...

The video encoding hardware built into GeForce GPUs is getting a small boost, according to a quietly updated Nvidia support page (as spotted by Tom’s Hardware). Previously, the NVENC encoder built ...

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The story of compression in live broadcast production is a long, complex and ongoing one. But a new white paper from Sony Group company Nevion, entitled Video Encoding in Live Broadcast Production, ...

From time to time, Netflix updates the technology it's using to convert and compress each of the digital copies of movies it streams to customers. Because people watch from so many different platforms ...

Today's electronic imaging technology has come a long way from the first, pre-WWII, monochrome TV services that began the long-time competition with the cinema. The invention of pulse-code modulation ...