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Tuesday, May 05, 2009 3:15 PM

Silverlight, Video, and SketchFlow at MGFest in Austin Next Week

Next week I will be teaching two full-day workshops at the Motion Graphics Festival in Austin, Texas.  If you want to learn about Silverlight and Video Distribution and Encoding, then register for the Motion Graphics Festival today. Introduction
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Monday, January 19, 2009 12:35 PM

Deep Discounts on Microsoft Expression until January 31

When I joined Microsoft, I was a Visual Studio user having spent my career developing, designing, and crafting software.  I could build a Windows forms application very quickly – and it had a beautiful gray background with buttons arranged in a boring
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Sunday, March 16, 2008 12:54 PM

Ben Waggoner Shares his Encoding Magic for 720p at 2Mbs

I just viewed this over a busy hotel wireless connection and I'm amazed: http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21587/ I still have so much to learn from Ben!  He's hosting the video on our free Silverlight Streaming Services and encoding with the new Expression
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Monday, January 28, 2008 10:59 PM

50 Years of LEGO

If anyone went to the Google home page today (I'm sure there were a few) they would have found the Google banner commemorating 50 years of the LEGO block. LEGO blocks were my favorite toy as a child; I spent hours building, rebuilding, designing, creating,
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 2 Comments
Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:58 PM

Webinar Recording Posted: Creating a Windows Workflow Activity for Expression Encoder

A recording of today's webinar on creating a Windows Workflow activity for Expression Encoder has just been posted. You can find it along with other recordings of past webinars here . If you like the look of this Workflow, it's because I created a Custom
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 4:45 PM

Upcoming Webinar: Creating a Windows Workflow Activity for Expression Encoder

If you have been using Microsoft Expression Encoder to create Silverlight video applications, you might have heard that it had a command-line interface for automation. I took this interface and wrapped it in a Windows Workflow Activity so you can easily
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 14 Comments
Friday, December 14, 2007 11:41 AM

CDN Publishing Possible from Expression Encoder

My colleague Tim Heuer, posted a great example of how you might extent Expression Encoder to encode and upload content to a Content Delivery Networks (CDN). If you've used the Expression Encoder add-in for Silverlight Streaming , you've seen an example
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:39 PM

Webcast Recording Posted: Encoding Q&A with Ben Waggoner

If you were able to attend the Q&A session with Microsoft resident encoding expert Ben Waggoner , you would have seen 31 attendees peppering Ben with questions for just over an hour. If you missed it, you can view a recording here . Recordings of
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 3 Comments
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Friday, November 23, 2007 10:45 AM

Adding "Press Play" to a Silverlight Media Player

I just added an animated "Press Play" graphic to the Silverlight Media Player created with Expression Encoder. I created the graphic (with animation) as a separate XAML file so it can be easily reused. To see it in action, see this blog post . Feel free
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 4 Comments
Attachment(s): PressPlay.xaml
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:31 AM

Encoding Formats for Silverlight Video

As you can see, I have been experimenting with posting video on my blog now that I have a HD Video Camera ( JVC GZ-HD7U ). I have been trying various encoding formats in Expression Encoder to get a good balance of bit-rate and quality. Here is my workflow:
Posted by Michael S. Scherotter | 2 Comments
Attachment(s): Silverlight Streaming 720p.prx
 
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