File Compression and Encoding – Half Day

Available dates:


  • Jun 12-12,
  • Jul 1-1,
  • Aug 12-12,
  • Sep 23-23

To book please call 020 7505 4700 or email training@vet.co.uk

Course duration: Half day

Course Outline:

This half day course is for those who need to understand electronic files and the different delivery formats in today's increasingly tapeless environment. It provides an overview of compression and how it impacts on the post production process. Theory is made digestible by expert trainers who are also practitioners, leaving participants with an understanding of efficient ways to produce effective results through informed choice and targeted delivery.

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:
Production managers, video producers, editors, assistant editors, and web journalists.

Price: £150 + VAT

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