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