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    Compression Primer

    Posted by Bob Tompkins on January 3, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    Can anyone recommend an up to date book, or an on-line tutorial or a class in the Boston area that can help me learn compression techniques? I have been confused/frustrated by Windows, Quicktime and Flash in multiple different ways over the last three months. We have used Flip4Mac for WMV, Camtasia for Flash and iMovie or FCP for Quicktime recently to attempt post 1 hour plus lectures on the web with limited results. Anyone have any suggestions?

    Craig Seeman replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Craig Seeman

    January 3, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    Unfortunately getting out of date but still useful book by Ben Waggoner “Compression For Great Digital Video”

  • Bob Tompkins

    January 3, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    Thanks for the help. That was published in 2002. Four years is light years in compression technology.

  • Craig Seeman

    January 3, 2007 at 6:53 pm

    Sadly I’ve seen nothing like it since. Focal Press has some books on compression though. Cliff Wootton, “A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression from Sprockets and Rasters to Macro Blocks.” Published in 2005.

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