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APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ============================================ ENCODING DIGITAL VIDEO FOR NETWORK DELIVERY ============================================ TUESDAY 5TH OCTOBER 1999 at the British Universities Film & Video Council, London ********************************************************** 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 ******************************* Courses & Events, BUFVC, 77 Wells Street, London W1P 3RE tel: 020 7393 1500, fax: 020 7393 1555, e-mail: [log in to unmask] *********************************************************************** %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%