DV for Teachers

Follow links to NECC workshop here.——-

Here are the links for downloading additional information from the SIGGRAPH Course.

Low-cost PC-based DV editing apps reviewed at PC Magazine.

This is the Creativepro.com tutorial on making a DVD demo reel:
Part I
Part II
Part III.

Here’s a FAQ on MPEG-2 from the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center:
http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/research/mpeg/mpeg2faq.html

MPEG-4 Licensing terms finalized Monday July 15: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-944051.html

Whether you’re exporting your demo to DVD or VHS, these precautions apply:
NTSC Limitations [unknown entity] Resolution, Color, Resolution

• Export animations with high-resolution uncompressed codec: QuickTime Animation compressor with QuickTime Pro, e.g.
  
• Strictly 720×480, 72 dpi
  
• TV [unknown entity]safe areas[unknown entity] for picture and title
  
• Avoid lines less than one pixel in width
  
• Color
  
• Video monitors have most limited color palette
  
• Reds, magenta bleed and flicker on TV
  
• In video, White is approx 75-80% of white on RGB computer monitor
  
• Use Photoshop or similar NTSC-safe color filter
  
• Desaturate colors as needed to avoid artifacts
  
• Preview on NTSC monitor when possible

We’ve begun our presentation; Barb is speaking now about the different specs and formats of digital video, from uncompressed to DV.

Dan’s talking about audio, and I’ll talk about compression and codecs.

It went well – folks seemed to like it. No one left, at least. *——-