All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'codec'

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Choosing a Digital Video File Type

Choosing a file format can prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital video. The aims of this document are to discuss some of the key factors that should be considered before selecting a file format and to suggest suitable choices for specific applications
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Introduction to Digital Video

We look at a variety of concepts and issues relating to digital video. The intention is to give the reader enough knowledge to make informed choices about digital video equipment, to create digital video and to read more advanced documents about digital video on the JISC Digital Media website.
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AAC Audio and the MP4 Media Format

A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
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Uncompressed Audio File Formats

This document summarises the main features of uncompressed audio file types, including WAV, AIFF and Broadcast WAV (BWF). It gives an overview of these 'raw' formats, and a simple explanation of the common options they will offer the user when creating or working with digital audio. It also looks at lossless compression tools for subsequently reducing the size of these files which will allow reconstruction of their original audio data sonically unaltered. Several sections include links to further resources covering specific relevant topics in more detail, so this is a good place to start if you want to learn more about any of these formats.
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User Guide to MP3

A guide to the creation, manipulation and use of audio flies in the popular MP3 format, including a close look at the many audio and metadata options which MP3 offers, and its use within teaching and learning.
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New report on HTML video
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Switch and stamp your sound

A really handy little application I find myself constantly using is Switch, a free audio file encoder which can singularly and batch convert files from pretty much any format to, well, pretty much any other format, with complete control over internal settings.
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