Streaming Media Production Guide

This guide is a resource for producers and production companies who need to transition their professional skills to leverage Internet distribution. It is accessible to anyone with basic video/film production skills, building upon a fundamental knowledge to expand the reader's capabilities. The book is designed to give media industry professionals and students of media alike a solid grounding in the tools, terminology and techniques used in professional web-video production, and to help them produce and then stream a high-quality video. Intended to make putting video on the Web as easy as possible, this guide adapts the components and steps of the pre-production, production and post-production processes for functionality in the new media environment. It outlines the skills required to prepare for interactivity, offering readers a clear grasp of the tools, techniques and technology involved in Web streaming.