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COMPRESSION FOR GREAT VIDEO AND AUDIO
Compression for Great Video and Audio
Master Tips and Common Sense
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Second Edition

By
Ben Waggoner, Ben Waggoner cofounded the pioneering digital media services company Journeyman Digital, launched Terran Interactive s consulting services division, and was principal of Interframe Media. Ben joined Microsoft in 2005, and is now Principal Video Strategist for Microsoft s Silverlight platform.

Description
This is the complete resource if you need to get quality video and audio on the Web. It teaches you to improve the quality of your deliverables while understanding optimum workflow practices. Now in its second edition, Compression for Great Video and Audio keeps up with the the industry by covering MPEG-2, VC-1, and H.264. This book provides a single place where both novices and practiced hands can learn to get optimum video and audio compression done with minimum hassles. It starts with an introduction to the basic concepts of vision and hearing, applying that in the context of compression, then moves on to practical, applicable information on how to create, edit, and compress different kinds of video for different kinds of deliverables.

Audience
Compressionists, video or audio engineers (encoders and transcoders), video editors, web authors, multimedia specialists

Contents
Revised with reviewer feedback: SEEING AND HEARING (12 PAGES) VISION WHAT LIGHT IS WHAT THE EYE DOES HOW THE BRAIN SEES HEARING WHAT SOUND IS WHAT THE EAR DOES HOW THE BRAIN HEARS FUNDAMENTALS OF VIDEO COMPRESSION (35) INTRODUCTION SAMPLING AND QUANTIZATION SAMPLING SPACE SAMPLING TIME SAMPLING SOUND NYQUIST FREQUENCY ALIASING QUANTIZATION COLOR SPACES RGB COLOR SPACE Y?CBCR COLOR SPACE DELIGHTS OF Y?CBCR BIT DEPTH COMPRESSION BASICS DATA COMPRESSION LOSSY AND LOSSLESS COMPRESSION SPATIAL COMPRESSION TEMPORAL COMPRESSION TYPES OF FRAMES RATE CONTROL WHAT MAKES A GOOD CODEC? TIERS OF QUALITY FUNDAMENTALS OF AUDIO COMPRESSION (10) SAMPLING VOLUME SAMPLING TIME AUDIO MODES 8-BIT, 16-BIT, 24-BIT, 32-BIT BINARY VERSUS FLOATING POINT MONO VERSUS STEREO VERSUS MULTICHANNEL CONVERSION TO FREQUENCIES WORKFLOW (8 PAGES) PLANNING PRODUCTION POST PRODUCTION DIGITIZATION PREPROCESSING COMPRESSION INTERMEDIATE FILES DELIVERY PICKING A PLATFORM PRODUCTION AND EDITING (20 PAGES) CHARLIE ROSE GOOD, MTV BAD PREPLANNING PRODUCTION PRODUCTION TIPS SPECIAL NOTES FOR HD POSTPRODUCTION POSTPRODUCTION TIPS CAPTURING (10 PAGES) WHY GOOD CAPTURES MATTER ANALOG DIGITAL HD SCREEN CAPTURES RENDERED PREPROCESSING (25) CROPPING DEINTERLACING INVERSE TELECINE SCALING ASPECT RATIO PIXEL SHAPE SCALING QUALITY COLOR SPACE CONVERSION NOISE REDUCTION SHARPENING MOTION TRACKING LUMA ADJUSTMENT CHROMA ADJUSTMENT COLOR CORRECTION FRAME RATE AUDIO PREPROCESSING NORMALIZATION COMPRESSION NOISE REDUCTION USING VIDEO CODECS (15 PAGES) OVERVIEW WHAT THE SETTINGS MEAN THE TRADEOFFS USING AUDIO CODECS (6 PAGES) OVERVIEW WHAT THE SETTINGS MEAN THE TRADEOFFS WEB VIDEO (15) WHY WEB VIDEO HOW WEB VIDEO IS UNIQUE PROGRESSIVE DOWNLOAD WEB SERVERS STREAMING STREAMING SERVERS ADAPTIVE STREAMING LIVE BROADCASTING HOSTING COMPRESSION FOR OPTICAL DISC (15) WHY OPTICAL DISC HOW OPTICAL DISC IS UNIQUE AUDIO CD VIDEOCD DVD BLU-RAY ROM DISCS COMPRESSION FOR DEVICES (12) WHY DEVICES? HOW DEVICE VIDEO IS UNIQUE SIDELOADED CONTENT PROGRESSIVE DOWNLOAD STREAMING MPEG-1 AND 2 (10) WHY MPEG-1 WHY MPEG-2 USING MPEG-1 TOOLS FOR MPEG-1 MPEG-4 PART 2 (6) WHY MPEG-4 USING MPEG-4 TOOLS FOR MPEG-4 MPEG-4 PART 2/H.264 (10) WHY H.264 USING H.264 TOOLS FOR H.264 WINDOWS MEDIA AND VC-1 (12) WHY WINDOWS MEDIA SILVERLIGHT BLU-RAY USING WINDOWS MEDIA TOOLS FOR WINDOWS MEDIA QUICKTIME (6) WHY QUICKTIME USING QUICKTIME TOOLS FOR QUICKTIME FLASH (10) WHY FLASH USING FLASH TOOLS FOR FLASH MISCELLANEOUS FORMATS (10) AVI REALMEDIA DIVX OGG MP3 COMPRESSION TOOLS (20) CLEANER PROCODER/CARBON SQUEEZE EPISODE ADOBE MEDIA ENCODER VEGAS VIDEO AVISYNTH WINDOWS MEDIA ENCODER EXPRESSION ENCODER QUICKTIME PLAYER PRO VIRTUALDUB AGILITY FLIPFACTORY TUTORIALS (30) MOVIE TRAILER FOR THE WEB INTERLACED SPORTS FOR DVD MOTION GRAPHICS FOR BLU-RAY ANIMATION FOR VIDEO GAME GLOSSARY

Bibliographic details
Paperback, 624 pages, publication date: NOV-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-240-81213-7
Imprint: FOCAL PRESS

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