This month we are announcing four new features that will make your videos more accessible, better sounding and more secure. Closed Captioning On April 30th several important regulations go into effect that will improve the accessibility of Internet video.
The ING New York City Marathon is one of the world's greatest road races, drawing more than 47,000 entrants and millions of spectators.
On March 8th, Zencoder, Aspera, Amazon Web Services and Netflix gathered in New York City to discuss cloud-based media workflow. Zencoder is built on AWS, and in November we announced a partnership with Aspera to improve file transfer speeds to the cloud.
Online video impacts our day-to-day lives in many ways, from how we are entertained, to how we communicate and get the news. Perhaps the most exciting potential for positive impact is in education. Today we're thrilled to announce that we are providing encoding services to Khan Academy, for video that's destined for its new iPad application.
Since we launched just two years ago, Zencoder has successfully encoded over 20 million audio and video outputs. (This only includes successful video and audio encodes.)
Technology is changing the way that we communicate and collaborate on a number of things, not the least of which is video creation and production. Today we're highlighting Zencoder customer Screenlight. Here are some words from Screenlight founder Chris Potter on the technology behind their service. Want to be featured in a blog post? Hit us up at info@zencoder.com and let us know what you’re up to What do you do at Screenlight? Screenlight offers a private video sharing and collaboration platform that makes it easy for video producers & editors to securely review videos with clients, get their feedback, and get video projects approved. The service solves communication and platform compatibility issues that people experience when using DVDs, email, FTP, YouTube, and custom solutions to review and approve videos.
Our very own Steve Heffernan presented at the 2011 HTML5 Video Summit, held at Streaming Media West in November. Here's a link to video of his presentation on how to build an HTML5 video player: http://bcove.me/ompnjjq1