What is included with this book?
Preface | p. xi |
Understanding Video and Audio | p. 1 |
Elements of Video | p. 2 |
Frames and Fields | p. 3 |
Benefits of Interlacing | p. 4 |
Problems Caused by Interlacing | p. 4 |
Progressive Scan Video | p. 6 |
Resolutions | p. 7 |
Aspect Ratio | p. 9 |
Analog vs. Digital | p. 12 |
How Compression Works | p. 13 |
Lossless and Lossy Compression | p. 15 |
Spatial (DCT) and Wavelet Compression | p. 16 |
Quantization | p. 17 |
Interframe and Intraframe Compression | p. 18 |
Audio Compression | p. 19 |
Evaluating Video for Compression | p. 20 |
How Was the Video Shot? | p. 21 |
How Was It Edited? | p. 21 |
Who Is the Intended Audience? | p. 22 |
Conclusion | p. 23 |
The Language of Compression | p. 25 |
Players | p. 26 |
QuickTime Player | p. 27 |
Windows Media Player | p. 31 |
Adobe Flash Player | p. 32 |
RealPlayer | p. 34 |
Other Video Players | p. 36 |
Wrappers | p. 38 |
Codecs | p. 39 |
Descriptions of the Commonly Used Codecs | p. 40 |
A Time and a Place for Everything | p. 43 |
Delivery Codecs | p. 44 |
Authoring Codecs | p. 45 |
Legacy Codecs | p. 45 |
Compression Parameters | p. 47 |
Data Rates | p. 48 |
VBR and CBR | p. 48 |
Frame Rates | p. 49 |
Frame Types | p. 49 |
Aspect Ratios | p. 51 |
Square and Nonsquare Pixels | p. 53 |
Resolution | p. 53 |
Online Delivery: Streaming vs. Download | p. 54 |
Conclusion | p. 56 |
Best Practices | p. 57 |
What Are Your Compression Needs? | p. 58 |
Long-Form or Short-Form Content? | p. 58 |
What Is Your Final Delivery Target? | p. 58 |
How Is Your Content Delivered to You? | p. 58 |
How Much Content Are You Compressing? | p. 59 |
Is Compression All You're Doing? | p. 60 |
Quality or Timeliness? | p. 60 |
Are You a Content Owner or a Cog? | p. 60 |
How Knowledgeable Is Your Client? | p. 60 |
Equipment and Workflows for Different Scenarios | p. 61 |
Encoding as an Editor | p. 61 |
Encoding as a Compressionist | p. 64 |
Automating the Encoding Process | p. 65 |
Enterprise Systems: The Big Leagues | p. 66 |
Essential Encoding Equipment | p. 67 |
Hardware | p. 67 |
Software | p. 70 |
Productivity Tips | p. 75 |
Minimizing Quality Loss Without Overdoing It | p. 75 |
Stay Organized | p. 76 |
File-Naming Conventions | p. 77 |
Experimenting Can Be a Good Thing | p. 78 |
Make Your Own Recipe Book | p. 79 |
Mezzanine, or In-Between, Files | p. 79 |
Archiving and Transcoding | p. 80 |
Conclusion | p. 80 |
Preprocessing | p. 81 |
Deinterlacing Video | p. 82 |
Blend | p. 83 |
Weave | p. 83 |
Area-based | p. 83 |
Motion Blur | p. 83 |
Discard | p. 83 |
Bob | p. 84 |
Progressive Scan | p. 84 |
Motion Compensation | p. 84 |
Telecine and Inverse Telecine | p. 85 |
Cropping | p. 86 |
Scaling | p. 87 |
Image Aspect Ratio Correction | p. 89 |
Pixel Aspect Ratio Correction | p. 89 |
Noise Reduction | p. 90 |
Luma Adjustments | p. 92 |
Gamma Correction | p. 93 |
Brightness and Contrast | p. 94 |
Chroma Adjustment | p. 94 |
Saturation | p. 94 |
Hue | p. 94 |
Audio Preprocessing | p. 95 |
Adjusting Volume | p. 95 |
Noise Reduction | p. 96 |
Conclusion | p. 96 |
Interview with a Compressionist: John Howell | p. 97 |
Compression Tools | p. 101 |
Adobe Media Encoder | p. 102 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 103 |
How Does It Work? | p. 105 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 108 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 108 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 108 |
QuickTime Pro | p. 109 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 110 |
How Does It Work? | p. 112 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 117 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 117 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 118 |
Compressor | p. 119 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 120 |
How Does It Work? | p. 121 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 125 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 126 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 126 |
Microsoft Expression Encoder | p. 127 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 128 |
How Does It Work? | p. 129 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 133 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 133 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 133 |
Squeeze Compression Suite | p. 133 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 136 |
How Does It Work? | p. 137 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 142 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 143 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 143 |
Episode Pro | p. 144 |
What Does It Look Like? | p. 144 |
How Does It Work? | p. 146 |
What Makes It Special? | p. 149 |
What Should You Watch Out For? | p. 150 |
What Should You Remember? | p. 150 |
Higher- and Lower-End Options | p. 150 |
Less-Expensive Solutions | p. 151 |
A Note About Enterprise Solutions | p. 153 |
Conclusion | p. 155 |
Interview with a Compressionist: Nico Puertollano157 | |
Compressing for DVDs | p. 161 |
What's a DVD? | p. 162 |
Producing SD DVDs | p. 162 |
SD Media | p. 162 |
SD Codecs | p. 165 |
What the Heck Is a VOB? | p. 166 |
What's a Blu-Ray Disc? | p. 167 |
Producing Blu-ray Discs | p. 169 |
Blu-ray Overview | p. 171 |
Recording Blu-ray Discs | p. 172 |
DVD Workflows | p. 173 |
That Whole Bit Budget Thing | p. 175 |
Recipes for Producing SD DVDs | p. 178 |
Compression and DVD Studio Pro Markers | p. 178 |
Rendering a DVD-Compatible File in Compressor | p. 180 |
Creating an SD DVD in DVD Studio Pro | p. 186 |
Recipes for Producing Blu-ray Discs | p. 191 |
Working in Premiere Pro | p. 192 |
Managing the Handoff | p. 192 |
Producing an MPEG-2 Blu-ray-Compatible File in Adobe Media Encoder | p. 193 |
Producing an H.264 Blu-ray-Compatible File in the Adobe Media Encoder | p. 196 |
Creating a Blu-ray DVD in Encore | p. 198 |
Conclusion | p. 201 |
Interview with a Compressionist: Ben Waggoner | p. 203 |
Compressing for the Web | p. 209 |
The Early Days of Web Video | p. 210 |
Modern Web Video | p. 211 |
The Rise of Short-Form Video | p. 211 |
More Broadband Penetration | p. 212 |
Better Tools | p. 213 |
Audience and Creator Are the Same Thing | p. 214 |
Everybody Is a Star | p. 215 |
Citizen Journalism | p. 215 |
Traditional Media Catches On | p. 216 |
Modern Web Tools and Formats | p. 217 |
Recipes for Compressing Video for the Web | p. 218 |
Encoding for YouTube from Episode Pro | p. 219 |
Streaming Windows Media from Compressor | p. 226 |
Progressive Download Flash Video | p. 235 |
Conclusion | p. 237 |
Interview with a Compressionist: Jim Rohner | p. 239 |
Compressing for Mobile | p. 243 |
How Little Video Became Big | p. 244 |
Live Streaming to Mobile Devices | p. 245 |
Download and (Maybe) Sync | p. 246 |
Mobile Devices and Their Formats of Choice | p. 249 |
Cell Phones | p. 249 |
Smart Phones and Pocket PCs | p. 252 |
Apple iPhone | p. 253 |
Media Players | p. 254 |
Recipes for Compressing Video for Mobile | p. 259 |
3GP Files for Those Non-Smart Phones | p. 259 |
Adding Chapter Markers to a Video Podcast | p. 268 |
Conclusion | p. 274 |
Interview with a Compressionist: Ryanne Hodson | p. 275 |
Compressing for Set-Top Boxes | p. 279 |
More Than Just Cable | p. 280 |
Digital TV | p. 280 |
IPTV | p. 282 |
IP-Based STBs | p. 284 |
Apple TV | p. 284 |
Xbox 360 | p. 286 |
Vudu | p. 288 |
Recipes for Compressing Video for STBs | p. 289 |
Ripping a DVD with HandBrake | p. 290 |
Standard-Definition Video for Xbox | p. 296 |
Conclusion | p. 299 |
Interview with a Compressionist: Andy Beach | p. 301 |
Index | p. 305 |
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