Publishing Digital Video

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Publishing Digital Video

“The newest edition provides video workers with the most practical and readable book on making digital video happen, emphasizing not just the nuts and bolts of tech sheets and techniques, but how to plan and approach the process with a clear end goal firmly in view.”
       -- David Guenette
        E-Media Professional
        July, 1997

A 580 page book modestly called the "essential guide" for producing video for CD-ROM and Internet distribution. This book details how to:

Film for maximum compressed quality

Capture for delivery over the Internet, on CD-ROM or on tape formats

Compress in formats like Indeo video interactive and Cinepak

Choose the best streaming Internet technology

Purchase the best, low end MPEG-1 encoder

Other Reviews:

“Although Publishing Digital Video contains a lot of beginner information, it moves quickly, and provides enough intermediate to advanced information for any level videographer.
       -- Lori Ash
        Web-Publisher
        July, 1997

Appropriate for:

All video developers producing for the Internet or CD-ROM

Beginner to advanced levels

Why Buy This Book?

Because it will help you:

Improve the quality of your published video

Shorten your video development cycles

Buy the most effective and economical tools for your video related tasks

Enclosed CD-ROM:

Contains:

All book text in searchable Adobe Acrobat format

All video example files referenced in the book (well, most of them anyway)

Screencam files demonstrating tools and techniques

Slightly abridged copy of VCS Play 32 (retail version worth $50). (to VCS Play 32 product page).

PDV Explorer - Our navigation tool that makes Publishing Digital Video a "living book." (author's note - to new PDV Explorer Page)

Chapter Summary:

Intro to Digital Video - Overview video capture and playback process.

Video Compression - Compression theory dictates optimum production techniques. Learn to film for compressability and how compression options impact video quality and display rate.

Video for Windows (VFW) - Overview of VFW and ActiveMovie, the dominant Windows development and playback architectures.

Internet Multimedia - Explains new concepts and technologies like streaming audio, video, electronic documents and VRML.

Streaming Audio - Compare quality and feature set of audio technologies like TrueSpeech, RealAudio and Streamworks with sample files.

Tour De Codec - Compares both streaming video technologies (e.g. VDO) and CD-ROM based technologies like Indeo and MPEG-1.

Analog Sources - Compares analog formats like BetaSP, S-VHS and Hi-8 with new digital formats like Sony's DV Format. See which produces better video quality.

Capture Karma - Reviews FAST's AV/Master, Intel's Smart Video Recorder III, miro's DC 30, Truevision's Bravado and Digital Video Art's Wakeboard. See which delivers the best quality for compression and nonlinear editing.

Capture Board Installation - Even with Plug 'n Play, Windows 95 quirks can cost days of debugging. Learn to identify and avoid them.

Video Capture - Software controls and settings for capturing for nonlinear editing and encoding to MPEG-1, Internet and CD-ROM codecs. With detailed checklists.

Preprocessing - Learn how to apply filters, create transitions and titles and compress with Media Studio, Premiere and DVP. See which editors compress correctly, and which produce sub-par quality.

Compression Controls - Details compression parameters and techniques using VidEdit, Premiere and MediaStudio.

Intro to MPEG-1 - An overview of MPEG-1 encoding and decoding options.

Low End MPEG-1 Encoders - Review 6 low end MPEG-1 encoders costing $89 to $1,500, looking at comparative video quality and compatibility with various MPEG-1 players.

MPEG-2 - MPEG-2 is the codec behind DVD. Learn when you need to factor these new technologies into your development plans.

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