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What is WorkFlowed?

This site is dedicated to the concept that complex problems can be solved by simple steps. It's an idea that's been a long time forming, but is really nothing more than a series of problems I and my colleagues have had a chance to solve during our years in the digital media industry.

Sometimes we solve them for clients, sometimes for our own personal need and, from time to time, as a challenge from friends and colleagues.

Too often, though, when we solve these problems outside the realm of a client project, we don't take the time to lay out the solution in a user-friendly way. That's the reason for Workflowed: show the problem, the solution(s) and the path between them.
Why WorkFlowed?

Metadata, and corresponding workflows, are becoming more important in the field of digital media.

For some workflows, you'll see only a text blog post; for others, when we have the time or feel sharing a more detailed verbal or visual workflow, we'll use workflowed.com to make visuals or additional details available.

In addition, business productivity tools, pitched as timesavers, can sometimes be so much hot air, so we'll take a look at some of the claims of these types of tools and compare them to other tools, creating our own workflows in the process.

Systems Integration for the rest of us

Preparing to attend a show for systems integrators in Las Vegas this week, I spent part of today covering Steve Jobs' WWDC keynote address for StreamingMedia.com.Read the details on iPhone 4 and my take on Apple's attempt to outgoogle Google with iAd and HTML5 lip service on the streaminedia.com site, but pause first to reflect on these excerpted comments that Jobs made.
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Why Partner? Edgeware and MediaMelon

As I've been working through partnerships between various professional transcoding and live encoding manufacturers, so that two companies can provide a joint testing solution for both areas of our comparative testing, I've been struck by the continued uptick in joint solutions.One such joint solution, which I wrote about today for StreamingMedia.com is a combination of edge caching devices and deterministic
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Test Criteria - Professional Transcoding and Live Encoding comparison testing

As mentioned yesterday, two additional companies expressed interest in the comparative testing for professional transcoding and live encoding workflow systems: Sorenson and a new player in the space, Octasic (or 8 ASIC).While neither of the companies has enough of a total solution to compete in this year's testing, both may have solutions in the near- to mid-term that would fill the gaps and allow
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It continues

Two more companies have expressed interest in being included in the transcoding and live encoding comparison testing: Sorenson and a brand-new company in the space. More on that tomorrow.
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Invitations sent out for professional transcoding and live encoding comparison

As mentioned in yesterday's blog post, a series of email invitations were to be sent out today, highlighting an invitation to a comparative test bed for professional transcoding and live encoding solutions.The first wave of invitations went out at 2pm Eastern. Response has been solid and immediate, in keeping with the conversations at NAB. Two companies are already signed on, there's a verbal commitment
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It's Begun - Comparative Test Bed for Live Encoding and Transcoding

Earlier this week, I wrote an article for StreamingMedia.com entitled "Back to Basics: Hardware Acceleration" in which I discussed the often-misunderstood four areas where hardware acceleration is used for streaming media content: ingest, content creation, output (compression) and playback.In the article, I mentioned:Since ingest is the realm of specialized appliances such as Envivio's C4, Inlet's
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iPad - Dead End for Flash?

[Update: It's getting ugly, as an Adobe rep responds.]Between the launch of the iPad, on April 3, and the introduction of Apple's iPhone software version 4, on April 8, a significant amount of buzz was generated about CS5 Flash Professional's role in the iPad ecosystem.The ability for Flash Pro to generate iPhone "packages" which allow some Flash content to play on the iPhone was first highlighted
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DVR usage continues to climb

A week ago, I wrote an article conjecturing that online video usage drives on-demand DVR usage. Now, according to a Nielsen "Three Screen Report" it does appear that online video growth and DVR usage are tied together:"DVR and Online Video continue to show solid growth – up 21.1% and 34.9% respectively in time spent from Third Quarter 2008"Thanks to @AndyBeach for pointing this one out.
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Metadata: Certainly Not Boring

Especially in this interview that Peter Cervieri recorded at last week's Streaming Media West 2009 show.Peter's interviews for his ScribeMedia.org often focuses on topics that are both timely and somewhat controversial, but metadata often doesn't fit in the latter category, unless you count Peter's triple-X rated title for the interview.While my slightly-pseudo-Southern accent always reminds me that
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Perspective: Blame it on video

"Internet traffic is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 46 percent. Video is the driver. Make no question about that."Robert Pepper, CiscoInternet Governance Forum conferencehttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.11b0df967c4c85298aa30205bd42846a.01&show_article=1iPhoned
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