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Think Speak Act Holistic Video Production Services ~ We've BEEN green. Providing award-winning green video productio

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08/01/2024

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We are celebrating 20 years - thank you for being part of our success, and happy new year!
02/01/2024

We are celebrating 20 years - thank you for being part of our success, and happy new year!

Tanya edited ABC’s The Year 2023 Politics segment - check it out!
29/12/2023

Tanya edited ABC’s The Year 2023 Politics segment - check it out!

Chaos in Congress and the latest road to the White House.

Gorgeous sunrise from the Amtrak NE Regional in MD
25/10/2023

Gorgeous sunrise from the Amtrak NE Regional in MD

Pandemic production life - staying safe!
27/06/2020

Pandemic production life - staying safe!

Social-distancing green-screen production outdoors under an event tent - stay safe friends!
18/06/2020

Social-distancing green-screen production outdoors under an event tent - stay safe friends!

23/05/2020
01/05/2020

Congratulations to Amtrak on 49 years and a warm welcome to the new CEO Bill Flynn! Produced by Think Speak Act

01/05/2020

Amtrak is "Ready For You" when you're ready to travel - produced by Think Speak Act

23/03/2020

Check out this messaging video we created for Amtrak! We hope everyone is able to stay safe during this challenging time.

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H.265/HEVC at NAB
H.265/HEVC at NAB

The coolest thing I saw at NAB this year was the new H.265 (or HEVC) codec. Unfortunately I can’t get it yet and neither can you. Several vendors at NAB (Motorola, NTT, Harmonic, etc.) all previewed hardware “boxes” that would live stream video using this new H.265 or HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) codec. But being a non-linear editor, I asked about using it in post-production for client deliverables, hoping I could buy a piece of transcoding software or an edit system plug-in. All but one vendor I talked to said, “no way—maybe by the end of this year or next year.” First of all, let me tell you why this new codec is so exciting. The image quality is spectacular compared to H.264 (or AVC), and the file size/bitrate is much smaller--1/2 the size of an H.264 file while maintaining a far superior resolution. Which means I could e-mail a high quality finished video to a client, without having to upload/download/ftp/worry about slow internet. And the codec can handle up to 8K footage, which means getting a 4K TV might actually make sense one day. After getting both excited and discouraged walking the NAB show floor and learning about this new codec, I approached Vanguard’s booth and asked about their H.265 “product” and asked was it software only. A very nice gentleman named Sam said “of course,” which made me very happy. He had a great demo set up and explained that the reason H.265 could look so much better than H.264 but be a smaller size/bitrate was that H.264 compressed the image in 16x16 blocks and couldn’t go any smaller or larger. On the other hand, H.265 can analyze and compress the image as small as 4x4 blocks for fine detail and scale up to 64x64 blocks for parts of the image that aren’t that detailed (like a sky or dark background). The only catch is that Vanguard sells their “software” only to developers, not the end user. He referred me to one of their partners, Digital Rapids to ask about an end user option. Ryan, the sales engineer at

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