[Craig Seeman]

Those are all older standard def formats and not great quality by modern standards.

Is this for TV /Cable (not public access)?

Common delivery has been MPEG2 Program or Transport Streams.
Sone now accept AppleProRes and DNxHD (I believe) if you have the bandwidth.

[Craig Seeman]

It’s been a while since I’ve used 3.5. If memory serves me I don’t think it could create H.264 .mp4. Quicktime 7 Pro could though and therefore, the free MPEGStreamclip (which uses Quicktime) could as well.
Compressor 3.5 created the older MPEG4 .mp4 which really isn’t worth using at all.

I’ll have to check to see if there was a way to do it at all in Compressor 3.5. I do remember one “cheat” was to use an iOS preset. The settings can’t be altered but the .m4v can be changed by hand to .mp4 since the metadata is otherwise essentially the same. You can’t/shouldn’t do that with .mov as the metadata is different and can have problems in some players.

[Craig Seeman]

Version of Compressor?
It’s fairly easy in Compressor 4.1.x

[Craig Seeman]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “Maybe. They’re projecting a rise in profit for 2014.”

Anything is possible but the numbers do point down, not up.
One might guess that 2012 was a bump up given the history of losses but we won’t know that for sure until we see the revised 2011 numbers. The drops from 2012 to 2013 look relatively large though.

BTW in theorizing about the FCP7 EOL it’s not that suddenly MC sales lifted them, it’s the move away from FCP7 might have included a move to Avid’s storage systems where they make their bigger money, as some large clients move back to MC/Symphony.

[Craig Seeman]

That the numbers are dropping again can indicate that the gains were temporary and possibly centered around the EOL of FCP7. As Adobe picks up in some high end facilities Avid is again declining.

[Craig Seeman]

or Adobe Watch.

With their new Health Cloud (Health Anywhere?) it’ll monitor the stress level of both the editor and the client. Editors will be privy to the client’s stress state to guide her/him in handling the edit session.

[Craig Seeman]

[Franz Bieberkopf] “online business journalism continues its decline.”
Sloppy business journalism for sure. Considering the importance of numbers it’s tragically unforgivable.

I do see this in the article you link to.

Revenues for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 were $563.4 million and $635.7 million

That’s
2012 $635.7 million
2013 $563.4 million
and

GAAP net income for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012 was $21.2 million and $92.9 million, respectively.

Which is
2012 $92.9 million
2013 $21.2 million

and
Adjusted EBITDA was $80.3 million and $117.8 million for the twelve-month periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

Which is
2012 $117.8 million
2013 $80.3 million

These are all declines. Of course we’ll need to see previous years to note trends and/or any interruptions/anomalies in them.

[Craig Seeman]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/09/12/avid-moves-toward-nasdaq-relisting/iH9rEmf1VPTQMcOibKhVtJ/story.html

But the filing, which includes the company’s annual report for the fiscal year ended Dec. 31, 2013, makes it clear that revenue has been falling, which it blamed on an accounting rules change. In 2011, Avid reported revenue of $766,885. In 2013, Avid said it generated revenue of $563,412, it said.

So that’s declining revenues according to this. Those revenue numbers look very low as well if there are no hidden zeros. Hundreds of thousands of dollars only?

[Craig Seeman]

[Marcus Moore] “But it’s a self-selecting group. People who are buying 5S and 5C phones now likely NOT heavy video watchers- it’s the people who are on more aggressive 2 years cycles which are the ones who are downloading most of the content.”

I haven’t seen any metrics to indicate viewing vs phone upgrades. I do know from my own YouTube channel people watch for longer duration with Tablets over phones by a very wide margin. I don’t think people make their phone upgrades based on video watching. On the other hand they may based on photo and video recording since each new phone has camera improvements. I’d bet, for the time being, the iPhone 6 is still recording H.264.

[Marcus Moore] “I’m anxious to do some h.264-h.265 encode test on my nMacPro.”

Keep in mind that early/first implementations on some third party encoders may be far from optimized.
Divx has H.265 implemented on Mac.
https://www.divx.com/en/software/technologies/hevc

[Craig Seeman]

[Rick Lang] “Carriers won’t see any significant drop in data usage as things get easier; they may even have pressure as users demand more and more over time.”

That reminds of a highway and traffic analogy I once heard. The response to heavy traffic is often, build bigger highways. Amazingly once you build the bigger highway it just fills up with more cars and you’re back into a traffic problem.

Carriers make money when people go over their data plans. On the other hand it’s probably a lot less expensing to have more efficient delivery than building out greater capacity. I do think that data usage is climbing much faster than capacity build out though.

I think a big impetus will come from companies like Netflix since they may have capacity issues with various ISPs. I suspect they’d be highly motivated to move to H.265 and that would mean there’d strong motive for support in both AppleTV and Roku.

Netflix discusses move to H.265
https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/Streaming-Media-East-Netflix-Making-the-Move-to-HEVC-but-Efficiency-Gains-Lag-96981.aspx

For us, even if we’re just delivering files, faster internet file delivery but much longer encode times.

So very much on topic, how soon does Apple add H.265 to Compressor so we can deliver H.265 to a clients already cramped for space iPhone? On the enterprise level Telestream has already announced support in Vantage. I’m not sure about Episode or Sorenson’s Squeeze yet. It’ll be interesting to see where Adobe is on this as well.