| | We can teach you and your staff about new media. From the details of calculating bitrates when encoding streaming video,to planning workflows in database-driven web applications such as content management systems,to any aspect of web design or multimedia production,our staff has over a decade of experience teaching these topics [...] While Blu-Ray is very useful for media storage,and DVD is excellent for delivery of media to audiences with lower-end or diverse technologies,successful streaming media sites such as YouTube,NetFlix,iTunes and Hulu have recently made streaming audio and video much more accepted by viewers,and an extremely useful method of delivering multimedia content. [...] The DVD is a convenient,widely accessible format for video and data distribution,but its future is limited. The disks can only hold 8.5 gigabytes of data. DVD-video can’t display high-definition content. And widescreen DVDs offer that feature only by storing less video data than even traditional standard-def. Blu-Ray offers improvements in all these areas. [...] Dark of Noon Pictures is an independent studio which produces film noir movies which are shown at film festivals and are available online in streaming video format. One example of their work is When Tyrants Kiss,a 2004 film now available online in a variety of streaming formats. [...] We specialize in multimedia production and editing,and can help our clients by producing multimedia (including audio,video,and interactive web,DVD,or Blu-Ray media),editing their existing footage into multimedia products,helping clients plan the purchase of multimedia hardware and software products,and training clients’ staff in multimedia production following current best practices. [...] Content Management We consult with clients on the planning,development,and maintenance of content management systems (database-driven web document management systems used increasingly by organizations for their organizational communication). Our team has developed dozens of such systems,and specializes in Plone and a variety of PHP/MySQL content management packages. Multimedia Development [...] Geoffrey Sauer is a professor who researches and teaches seminars in technical communication,web development,content management,multimedia production and film theory. He is the director of the nonprofit electronic publishing venture EServer.org (which serves almost 600,000 hits per day),and is also the director of the ISU Studio for New Media. [...] | |