Lesson 17. Advanced MPEG Encoding

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 45 minutes to complete.

Goals

Learn how motion estimation facilitates temporal compression in MPEG-2 video streams

Explore groups of pictures (GOPs), including the three types of frames they contain

Use the Preview window to see how the final MPEG-2 stream will look, before the stream is encoded

Set compression and chapter markers directly into the MPEG-2 stream

Crop standard definition video (720 × 486) so that it fits in the 720 × 480 DVD-Video frame

DVD-Video is a delivery format not just for video, as its name implies, but for high-quality, crisp, beautiful digital MPEG-2 video. However, the ...

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