Video Capture, Transcoding, and Authoring

Principles

• Terminology
• Video Standards
• Audio Standards
• Encoding Formats
• Recordable Media (DVD, HD-DVD, DV, VCD, and others)

Software

• Capture
• Editing
• Filtering
• Transcoding
• Authoring and Burning
• Other

Hardware

• Capture
• Editing and Authoring

Techniques

• Capture
• Editing
• Transcoding
• Authoring and Burning
• Other Techniques

Tutorials

• Converting AVI to MPEG-2 with AviSynth and TMPGEnc Xpress
• Capturing composite NTSC video with VirtualDub
• Inverse telecine for NTSC video
• Basic encoding with TMPGEnc Express
• Basic DVD authoring with DVD-Lab
• Converting telecined PAL content to NTSC and vice versa