SeminarSource.com

Producer · Post-Production Supervisor · Webcast Engineer

SeminarSource.com was an early provider of online meeting content and e-commerce solutions for the meetings industry, founded by Kim Folsom. I joined in 1999 — first as a freelance systems integrator designing non-linear editors and video-encoding solutions, then full-time as Post-Production Supervisor and Webcast Engineer.

I was soon promoted to Producer under Executive Producer Scott Leslie. Our streaming division edited and encoded 80+ hours of footage weekly, plus live production, encoding, and uplink — roughly 160 hours of production time a week. Between 1999 and 2002, the division produced more content, by hours, than C-SPAN and Discovery combined.

Backed in part by Intervu (later acquired by Akamai), SeminarSource had the infrastructure to deliver some of the largest streaming events of the era. Our field team ran custom "flypacks" — a studio in a box that rivaled the satellite trucks of the day — capturing via SDI, encoding to MPEG-2 Transport Stream, and delivering in Real Media and Windows Media.

What I did:

• Live event production, encoding, and uplink

• Post-production editing and interactivity

• Field broadcast and video-encoding system design

• Multi-format streaming workflows (SDI capture → MPEG-2 → Real / Windows Media)