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Video.js vs JW Player

Video.js vs JW Player is a comparison between both video & audio players, showing their advantages and disadvantages. For over 11 years, I worked with JW Player and shipped it with my WordPress plugin and Joomla extension under the name S3Media Stream. Since 2019, I use video.js because I got disenchanted with JW Player’s license policies … Read more

How to repair a badly phased audio

When your audio plays fine on your computer but not on mobiles or tablets, chances are that something is wrong with the phase of the audio. This often happens when audios from different sources are mixed, but it can arrive with single source audios as well, when using an external microphone on a camcorder, for … Read more

Sound generators for video soundtracks

If you need a soundtrack for your videos that isn’t predictable or harmonic in the classic sense, then you may want to try out a sound generator. There are quite a few of them around on the internet and I tested several for my art videos but the sound generators created by Dr. Karlheinz Essl … Read more

Reversed phase in audio and how to solve it

Reversed phase in audio can happen when audio devices save audio in the wrong way, resulting in a bad audio, notwithstanding everything seems to sound fine with the headphones. In my case, with the Sony HDR FX1 and a shotgun mic from Rode, one channel of the audio is each time reversed. A reversed phase audio creates problems … Read more

Using royalty free stock video and audio

Update 1 June 2016: This was a review of Revostock, which has been killed off by a Patent Troll. Revostock was founded in 2006, a library which offered royalty free stockvideo, stockaudio and sound effects. It was the first to sell Adobe After Effects templates to use in video projects. Like many image libraries it contained professional and … Read more

Embedding an audio with poster image, watermark and subtitles, using JW Player 5.10

Embedded audios in a website generally display a simple control bar with navigation buttons to play, pause, rewind and so on. While this is great for audio libraries, it can be so much more. In this tutorial, I’ll show you step by step how to add a poster image, a watermark and subtitles, using JW … Read more

S3: Private Streaming MP3 audios on CloudFront is a problem. The solution is simple.

Private streaming MP3 is problematic on S3 Cloudfront. It often does not play and you get no error message telling you what the problem is. The fastest and best way to deal with this is to convert your audio to M4a, the format used for iTunes. I know, you are not looking forward to this … Read more

How to do an interview on Skype with PrettyMay

PrettyMay is a call recorder for Skype and in this article we show with video tutorials you how to configure the basic audio settings of PrettyMay and then we do an interview with Skype. First from Skype to landline phone, then from Skype to Skype. You will notice a considerable difference in quality on the … Read more

Recording audio interviews with Skype

For those who do not know Skype, it is an application somewhat comparable with Yahoo Messenger or MSN. You can talk with friends or business associates by using a headset (headphones with build-in microphone). It is a free service and the quality of the sound is much better then telephone. But Skype goes a step … Read more

Broadcast quality audio for video interviews

Regarding audio and video, there is huge difference between broadcasting quality and podcasting or play back from computer. Although computer sound cards are getting better, it lacks way behind in comparison with professional audio equipment. This article shows a couple of pitfalls you have to avoid if there is a chance that you interview is not only watched from the web but also on fairs with professional PA systems.

Tips to use a microphone

I was looking for information on Rode mics when I bumped into a video of Ken Sparkes, the famous broadcasting personality of Australia. In the video, he demonstrates the Procaster microphone for broadcasting and then he gives a couple of very interesting tips how to use a professional microphone. Update 1 Dec 2016: Unfortunately, the … Read more

How to connect an external microphone to my computer

You have that wonderful and rather expensive external mic with XLR connection and discovered it doesn’t work on your computer? Yet, you bought an adapter for the XLR connection to fit into the sound board of your computer and it still doesn’t work? Chances are that your mic needs a lot of phantom power. Professional … Read more

Audacity, free sound editor

Audacity is a little gem under the free sound editors. It has a great noise removal feature which can supress static background noise as if it was never there. (Use it sparingly though, it can create weird effects. See How to reduce static in my audio? for more info about avoiding static.) There are many … Read more

How to reduce environmental sound in audios?

Environmental sounds are often confused with static because, just as static, it produces a disturbing drone in the background. Tthe funny thing is, that we hear those sounds in reality all the time, but we filter them from our minds automatically. If we wouldn’t block out all that irrelevant background noise, we would go totally … Read more

Comparing audio and video services

There are a lot of audio services out there, one cheaper then the other, but what is it you have to look out for? There are 7 points you need to look at when comparing services: The audio service: what do I get? Quality of support: mail, phone, how quick do they react? Flexibility: Can … Read more

Sony HDR FX1 camcorder review – updated

Jump to updated part >> I had mixed feelings after reading the reviews about the Sony HDR FX1 camcorder which is already on the market for some time (beginning 2005, if I’m correct). But I luckily found a video demo from a professional guy who made a fashion movie with it. This convinced me that … Read more

My Website Talks! Review

This review is about “My Website Talks!” from www.mywebsitetalks.com/ an audio package for Windows, complete with a headset and, for a limited time, also the option to record video. Here you find the advantages and disadvantages about using this software. What does this software do for you? You can record, playback, and publish your voice … Read more

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Phil on How to embed a video from Vimeo in WordPress without iFrameCrazy, but 9 years on I'm still able to use this tutorial, thanks for sharing!
Logical Softtech on Using royalty free stock video and audioAs website designer and app developer Its very useful for me .
Hanna on How to embed a HTML5 video on your siteThis is very interested article!
Sara on Subtitles on Facebook don’t show in my videoDid work perfectly on the phone, but captions still don't show up on computer!