史蒂夫·Nathans-Kelly: Today I'm going to be speaking with 1月时, Contributing Editor to 流媒体 and Principal of StreamingLearningCenter.com. 1月, 当然, is our resident expert on codecs and all things encoding, and later this month at 流媒体东连接, 他会的 presenting 2 in-depth online workshops on Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Encoding and Improving Your Encoding Skills. Now 1月's workshops have been a great part of 流媒体 events 为 years, but in the past if you wanted to attend one, 当然 you had to get yourself to New York or Cali为nia. This year--thanks to 流媒体东连接--we're bringing 1月时 to you.
那么，简，谁是 上车间 为? Is it 为 people who are already experienced with adaptive bit rate streaming? 是为新手准备的吗?
1月时: This particular workshop is 为 people who are just beginning to get involved with adaptive bit rate streaming or streaming in general. And that can be either VOD (video on demand) or live. 但这是一门面向新手的课程, and we're going to work on getting them up to speed on the key terms, 概念, and technologies involved with adaptive bit rate streaming. 这样他们就知道是什么意思了, they'll know what they have to do to get it implemented, and they'll know what they need to do to distribute to the different plat为ms that they want to distribute to. I think this is a good fundamental course to teach them the basics. And after that they can start exploring advanced techniques 为 making distribution more efficient, while keeping up the same quality of experience with our end users.
史蒂夫·Nathans-Kelly: You're doing another workshop the next day. This one is more about specific to encoding skills and techniques. Would you say that these workshops could be Part One and Part Two?
1月时: 是的，说得好. I think certainly if you're new to the business, 甚至是最近的移植手术, do you want to take the first course to get really solidly knowledgeable about the fundamentals and 概念? The second one really delves into opportunities to make things more efficient, to save money and to implement the new codecs and implement new technologies like per-title encoding. And to really take a look at your encoding ladder by using video quality metrics to make sure you're delivering optimal quality video all up and down the encoding ladder.
史蒂夫·Nathans-Kelly: What's the learning experience like in your workshops?
1月时: Each of the workshops will be set up not as one long course, but between 10 and 15 discrete lessons that last anywhere from 5 minutes to 15 minutes. And I kind of do it that way because I want to keep the learning experience discrete and have a real stopping point where we can explore 概念 further, 如果有必要的话, 或者回答任何问题. And I think the benefit of the live experience is going to be not only will I be there to answer questions, but there's a lot of cross-pollenization between some of the more experienced participants who may be doing stuff that even I don't know about who can talk back to the participants and explore and explain the benefits they've gotten from some of the new techniques that they're using now. I really try and plan well to make sure that we have time, 不只是在最后, but also after each module 为 questions and also to allow people to participate during each module because that's important as well.
这是一段有趣的时光. This is the first time 为 a lot of us to be teaching a three-hour session online and perhaps 为 a lot of the people who are taking the course, 同样的事情. So we all know that streaming media is increasing in importance because of what's happening around us. And it's going to be a great learning experience, both 为 me as an instructor and also hopefully 为 the students, not only in helping me learn the lessons I need to learn, but learning what they need to learn to take this to technology out and better serve the community and their viewers.
史蒂夫·Nathans-Kelly: So that's all the news that's fit to print on 1月时's upcoming workshops. 第一个是 Introduction to Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) Production and Delivery. 这是周二, 5月26日, 美国东部时间上午11点, 太平洋时间早上8点, 第二个更高级的车间, 哪个是建立在第一个基础上的, 是第二天吗?. 这是 Key Encoding Skills, Technologies, and Techniques, Wednesday, May 27th, 美国东部时间上午11点, 太平洋时间早上8点. 你可以在 流媒体东连接网站 我们希望能在那里见到你.
