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October 22, 2010
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Classes or Books on Video For Web

  • October 22, 2010
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Hello my fellow FMS community!

Does anyone know of some good classes to attend or books to read on delivering video to the web?  Also, some classes strictly geared toward the FMS would be awesome too.  I've been using FMS since v1 (I believe it was called Communication Server back then) was released and Flash/Actionscript also for a few years now, but it seems there is still so much to learn about this process.  The more I read and learn the more I realize I need to be a video producer, programmer, network engineer, and server engineer all wrapped up into one.  Even though I've been doing this for a few year I still see other companies out there delivering better vids that don't hiccup at all.  It seems like there are some secrets to the whole process that aren't being shared or something I'm missing.  At the company I work for we have people who shoot the video primarily for television.  After they do their magic a high res QuickTime video is handed to me where I encode it again at different bitrates/setting that I put on the FMS and develop the web interface for the video.

It would just be nice to talk to an expert in the whole process.  When I search the web there seems to be a fine line where the knowledge ends but I think the knowledge beyond that point is what makes other people’s video campaigns go from normal to excellent.  Also, there's not a whole lot of stuff out there for the FMS.  Maybe because it's a little expensive.  I want to be able to take my vid campaigns go from normal to excellent too!  The one class I’ve been to strictly for web video was in Atlanta, GA where we used this book, Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional by Robert Reinhardt.  It was really good and I learned a lot even after doing this stuff for at least 3 years, but it provided very little info on FMS.  In the end I just realized how much more I didn’t know.

Any direction on higher education would be great.

Thanks!

Eric

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    Graeme Bull
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 22, 2010

    Pretty much the best site on the internet today is FMSGuru.com (http://www.fmsguru.com) for learning about Flash Media Server (hate to toot my own horn but I run that site and I have yet to see any site match the sheer amount of information provided), Adobe's site is full of articles too of course. For video, check out this blog: http://sonnati.wordpress.com/ and this blog: http://www.flashconnections.com/. In my opinion they are both great for learning about video related items.

    Participant
    October 26, 2010

    Wow, thanks Graeme!  These are some great recourses.  I've actually used FMSGuru.com for a few things and I'm very appreciative of your work.  Thanks again!

    Eric