Understanding Digital Compression

Course Outline

This intensive one day course is for all those who need to deal with electronic files and different delivery formats in today’s increasingly tapeless environment. The one day course looks at compression and how it impacts on the post production process through to encoding and compression for delivery. It teaches the most efficient ways to produce effective results through informed choice and targeted delivery.

Course Type
Theoretical, with some practical demonstration.

Topics Covered

• Tape formats
• Pixels, Frames, Fields, Interlaced and Progressive
• Quantization and sampling
• Lossy and Lossless compression
• Aspect Ratios & TV Standards Data rates and file sizes
• Contention ratio, broadband data rates and firewalls
• Delivery formats, MPEG and GOPs, key frames
• End user delivery, Modem, Broadband, Broadcast, Mobile
• Encoding tools - Hardware versus Software & common encoding tools
• Filtering & processing
• DVD authoring and Encoding requirements, Bit budgeting

This course is aimed at
Web journalists, video producers, tape ops, editors, assistant editors and anyone expected to produce well encoded audio and video.

Pre-requisites None