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A Course on Open Video and the surrounding areas

A quick look at Open Video. Our aim is to give a quick overview of some of the issues, tools and areas of interest in this area. It is aimed at students interested in developing software, video journalists, editors and all users of video who want to take their knowledge further.

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15 hrs

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1. A Look at Open Video View and Discuss including a working definition of Open Video
2. What is Open Video? View and Discuss an outlline and a working definition..
3. Understanding Video Files View and Discuss An introductory look at what makes up a video file
4. Understanding Subtitles View and Discuss a look at subtitles, and subtitle files and how to create them
5. Understanding Codecs and Containers View and Discuss get geeky and then go out and play
6. Tools for Creating Open Video Files View and Discuss get your hands dirty and unearth some 'digital artifacts'
7. Encoding Explained View and Discuss a look at the mechanics of video encoding
8. A Look at Open Video - Part Two View and Discuss going deeper
9. Taking Video to Web View and Discuss Using use cases to show different web video distributions methods
10. Video and HTML5 Markup View and Discuss An intro to video and HTML5 markup
11. Collecting and Moving Video Metadata View and Discuss some theory and practice about moving video metadata around
12. Using ffmpeg and avconv View and Discuss A hands on look at command line encoding
13. What Next for Open Video View and Discuss Some of the future possibilities that excite us
14. Course Process and Credits View and Discuss credits and more info

Mick Fuzz

Mick Fuzz at A Look at Open Video

posted message: The gathering is going really well - We are looking to generate concrete ideas for the course soon.

14 Dec 2012 via courses.p2pu.org

Martin Kean

Martin Kean at A Look at Open Video

posted message: Yay!

12 Dec 2012 via courses.p2pu.org

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