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ENCODING DIGITAL VIDEO FOR NETWORK DELIVERY
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TUESDAY 5TH OCTOBER 1999
at the British Universities Film & Video Council, London
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This one-day course provides thorough coverage of the problems and issues
relating to digitising moving images for online delivery.
Greg Newton-Ingham, (University of East Anglia and Project Manager of the
joint BFI/BUFVC/JISC Imagination Universities Network Pilot) and Murray
Weston, (Director of the BUFVC), will present the course. It is aimed at
university staff with a special interest in the use of moving pictures,
computer services staff, producers, archivists and academic service
providers.
Course content:
* Video sources - signals, standards, analogue and digital formats,
transfers
* Video compression and file formats
* Software and platforms for moving images - server technology,
backing up and archiving
* Cataloguing and metadata
* Copyright status, clearance and educational exceptions
* Forms of delivery
Participants will not be expected to have had prior experience in handling
moving images in an IT environment.
Cost per person, including lunch and refreshments: GBP 92.83 (GBP 79.00 +
VAT), discount rate for members and staff in BUFVC member institutions: GBP
69.33 (GBP 59.00 + VAT).
For further details of the above course, please contact
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Courses & Events,
BUFVC,
77 Wells Street,
London W1P 3RE
tel: 020 7393 1500,
fax: 020 7393 1555,
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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