My first Silverlight Video... Composed... Transcoded... Uploaded and Embedded... All in 5 minutes!

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I downloaded and installed Roxio Buzz this morning.

Now I was impressed how quickly it allowed me to get a slideshow built and uploaded to the silverlight streaming service.

I opened the ap dragged in 28 photos and 1 wmv file... clicked the share button... chose silverlight streaming added my account and key (you only need to do this once) and then typed in a simple title.

The Transcoding started and 5 minutes from installing the application I had my travel slideshow on the web... Nice!

N.B. It is easy to miss this piece of UI that tells you what is happening after the transcoding step...

Drum roll please...

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2007
    Isn't Roxio much better than Microsoft Expression Media? Expression media requires ME to create the packaging, ZIP the files and upload everything. Why don't they add an automatic upload on Microsoft Expression Media is beyond me...

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2007
    Arghhhh. Roxio Buzz doesn't run on Windows Vista 64 bit.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2007
    Hey Mauricio, "Why don't they add an automatic upload on Microsoft Expression Media is beyond me..." Good news is that they have done this in a future build of Expression Media Encoder. The version shown at MIX has the publish to silverlight streaming piece in it. More about this here http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=304610 Also James Clarke talks about his soon to be released plugin to add silverlight streaming to Windows Live Writer - http://www.clarkezone.net/default.aspx?id=a747328f-e2f8-4da2-9791-9471334238d7

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    May 18, 2007
    Nice work Nigel- stay tuned for the Expression Media Encoder publisher and perhaps more... ;)