Quantel’s Digital Fact Book is a valueable resource for all who are interested in digital video. I learnt about Quantel’s products while I was an intern in the VCC post-production in Hamburg. Some colleague recommended it to me back then and I was fortunate enough to be able to order a free printed version. I don’t think they provide you with free copies anymore, but you can grab the full thing as PDF from the above page.
Addendum: 20th anniversary edition
During my Media Informatics studies, I took part in the production of a western parody short movie called High Nun (the pun is intended). It was quite an ambitious project with 13 participating students from the audio and video courses. Needless to say that we didn’t have much money, about 200 Euros. Most of which…
Just a little note about TMPEGEnc 2.5x which is a fantastic, no non-sense video encoding program that just works. It can encode your (DV-)AVI files into MPEG. Options include PAL/NTSC, VideoCD/SVCD/DVD with or wihout Variable bitrate and all that stuff. The point here is that you can actually configure it down to the tiny details,…
Similarly to the Digital Fact Book, the Doom9 page is a fantastic, more hands-on page full of tutorials and in-depth knowledge about video-enconding and transcoding. It has been online for years and is still updated frequently. Highly recommended!
The short-film Morgen ist Heute Gestern (tomorrow is today yesterday) is the result of 7 students teaming up to complete a second semester video-coursework assignment for their Media Informatics studies. Everything in this film is selfmade, including the music. Our script is based on the cassandra complex which denotes the ability to foresee the future…
Ever ran into the problem of having an audio-file in one format but really needing it in another format? Then check BeSweet GUI, it’s awesome!
My former course of study “Medieninformatik†(Media Informatics) at Hochschule Harz just celebrated its 10 years jubilee on the 10th of November 2007. I had been invited to give a talk about Pervasive Gaming and it was a great pleasure to come back to the place where my academic career started and to see so…