17 May 2007

My first Silverlight Video... Composed... Transcoded... Uploaded and Embedded... All in 5 minutes!

I downloaded and installed Roxio Buzz this morning.

Now I was impressed how quickly it allowed me to get a slideshow built and uploaded to the silverlight streaming service.

I opened the ap dragged in 28 photos and 1 wmv file... clicked the share button... chose silverlight streaming added my account and key (you only need to do this once) and then typed in a simple title.

The Transcoding started and 5 minutes from installing the application I had my travel slideshow on the web... Nice!

N.B. It is easy to miss this piece of UI that tells you what is happening after the transcoding step...

Drum roll please...

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# M Freitas said:

Isn't Roxio much better than Microsoft Expression Media? Expression media requires ME to create the packaging, ZIP the files and upload everything.

Why don't they add an automatic upload on Microsoft Expression Media is beyond me...

16 May 07 at 10:54 PM
# M Freitas said:

Arghhhh. Roxio Buzz doesn't run on Windows Vista 64 bit.

16 May 07 at 11:10 PM
# nparker said:

Hey Mauricio,

"Why don't they add an automatic upload on Microsoft Expression Media is beyond me..."

Good news is that they have done this in a future build of Expression Media Encoder. The version shown at MIX has the publish to silverlight streaming piece in it. More about this here http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304610

Also James Clarke talks about his soon to be released plugin to add silverlight streaming to Windows Live Writer - http://www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx?id=a747328f-e2f8-4da2-9791-9471334238d7

16 May 07 at 11:17 PM
# M Freitas said:

Good to know. The bad thing is that probably the new build will not be avaialble until my current trial expires. And knowing how this works, it won't install because I had already ran the trial.

Damn...

17 May 07 at 6:22 AM
# Sean Alexander said:

Nice work Nigel- stay tuned for the Expression Media Encoder publisher and perhaps more... ;)

18 May 07 at 10:14 PM
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