Adding Audio To WordPress Using Amazon S3

This tutorial shows how to add audio that you produce or rip from a cd (Instructions on Ripping a CD on Windows). Once you have your audio file you can easily upload it to AWS (Amazon Web Services) to be used for delivery on your Wordpress website.

 

This tutorial (No audio) shows how to add audio that you produce or rip from a cd (Instructions on Ripping a CD on Windows). Once you have your audio file you can easily upload it to AWS (Amazon Web Services) to be used for delivery on your WordPress website. This tutorial uses the JW Player plugin to add the video to the post. Enjoy the video and leave any questions or comments below.

Boost Your WordPress Videos Using Cloud Technologies

Learn how to Boost Your WordPress Videos Using Cloud Technologies.

Watch the video above to learn how to use AWS (Amazon Web Services) with JW Player to boost your WordPress videos. Topics covered will include:

  • AWS S3 Setup/Use
    AWS CloudFront Distribution Setup/Use
    AWS Elastic Transcoder Setup/Use
    How to install the JW Player plugin
    Using the JW Player plugin in your posts

Neat Video Tutorial

A simple tutorial on how to use the Neat Video plugin for After Effects. This is one of the top noise reduction plugins available.

1. Select Your Layer
Make sure that the layer you are applying the noise reduction to is selected.
2. Click on the Effects Menu
3. Select Neat Video
Look down your list of effects and find the Neat Video plugin. Hover over the text and select Reduce Noise from the fly out menu.
4. Click Effect Controls
Click on the effect controls tab at the top left (Using the standard After Effects layout).
5. Click Options
Find the Reduce Noise effect in the effects panel. Click the text link for options.
6. Find a Uniform Area
Click and drag to select an uniform area on the frame that is showing. If you cannot find a uniform area, select an area that is dark and has the most noise. You can adjust the size of the selection area during this process.
7. Click Auto Profile
Click the auto profile button. The software will process your video and calculate areas of noise.
8. Quality Measurement
Notice the quality measurement on the right side of the interface. This tells the user how well the software feels it will be able to remove the noise in your video. The target should be about 80+ percent. This is hard to achieve when the video does not have a uniform area to select. It will stil do a good job with the noise at low percentages.
9. Click Noise Filter Settings
Click the noise filter settings tab to adjust the output of the noise filter.
10. Preview Toggle
While adjusting the settings it is helpful to toggle the preview button (This temporarily removes the filter). This is helpful to see how the video is being affected by the filter.
11. Luminance Adjustment
The adjusts how much reduction is applied to the video based on the luminance channel. Typically 60-80% is a good number.
12. Sharpening
Sharpening is like image recovery. When noise reduction is applied to video with any software interpolation occurs. This means that the software guesstimates the pixels the should replace the noise based on the other pixels in the image. This causes soft edges in the video. This adjustment corrects some of that softness. Typically about 20% is the limit for sharpening due to the unrealistic look it can cause.
13. Brightness
Sometimes when noise reduction is added it causes the video to become darker than the orginial. This adjustment at the bottom of the interface allows the user to birighten the video back up.
14. Apply
Once you have the desired look for your video you can apply the noise reduction filter by clicking the apply button. This will close the options window.
15. Continue working
Now that you have the filter applied you can continue working on your project. If you find that your video needs more adjustment you can edit the filter by clicking on the options link in your effects panel. Please note that any filter/effect that works on a per pixel level will increase your render times. This plugin is no different.

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Embed Your Facebook Videos

Embed Your Facebook Videos
Facebook Video Embed

Facebook has just released a long sought after feature. Facebook content owners can now embed their video content on their website. In this post on their developer website Facebook announces that they will allow users the ability to embed video into their websites and throughout the web. They have also included some customizable features such as the desktop video size and the language used. The embeddable videos can also be managed via the Graph API and the Page Videos API. Everyone will be watching for the next move to see if there will be separate tiers for “Standard Users” and “Pro Users” or if they will offer some benefits (Maybe Custom Branding) to users at a certain level of likes or for a fee.