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Where Shall We Go Next?
39.1 Back Home Again
If you have read this far, you will have realized that there is a lot of fine detail to understand when compressing video. You need to know about many things other than the compression process because the bulk of your work happens before you compress a single frame.
If you take each individual piece of knowledge separately, none of the steps involved is very complex. It’s just that there are rather a lot of them and if you compress your video and leave out some of the preprocessing tricks or do them in the wrong order, it degrades the quality of your output.
This concluding chapter looks beyond compression to examine some topics that crop up in advanced work. It also ties up a few loose ends and ...
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