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A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression
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A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression

by Cliff Wootton
April 2005
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
20h 52m
English
Routledge
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Preface

The last few years have been an extraordinary time for the digital video industry. Not long before the turn of the millennium, digital video editing systems were expensive capital items of equipment that only major broadcasters and production companies could afford. To think that now the same capability is available in a laptop that you can buy off the shelf and it comes with the software for something in the region of $1200 is amazing. This is a capability we have dreamed about having on our desktops for 15 years. The price of the hardware and software needed to run an entire TV broadcast service is now within the reach of any organization or individual who cares to get involved.

Recall the boom in publishing that happened when the Apple ...

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ISBN: 9780240806303