All advice documents, training courses and blog entries tagged 'file formats'
Still images advice tagged 'file formats'
Print Size and File Size Calculator
This calculator will help you work out maximum print sizes you can expect from digital images. It will also work out approximate file sizes for Raw, TIFF and JPEG images. As long as you know the pixel dimensions of your image, the calculator will work out the rest for you. You can use it with digital camera images or other digital images.
Read full advice document...Introduction to the Vector Image Format
Digital image formats fall into two main categories: raster and vector. The raster format lends itself to continuous tone images such as photographs. This document introduces the vector image format which is more suited to the defined lines, curves and shapes of charts, logos, web graphics, technical drawings, cartoons and fonts.
Read full advice document...The PNG File Format
The Portable Network Graphics or PNG format is a versatile file format that is an open standard and provides many advantages.
Read full advice document...Which Digital Camera File Formats Should I Use?
Our camera offers so many file formats, which one should we use?
Read full advice document...The Camera Raw File Format
The Raw file format is the native format offered by most digital SLR cameras. The format can offer greater levels of control over the conversion of capture data to more widely accepted formats such as TIFF or JPEG formats. This document is an introduction to the format and how to make use of it.
Read full advice document...Converting your Slides into Digital Images
The 35mm slide has long played a key role for delivering images in the teaching and learning environment. However, recent improvements in capture and delivery technology have seen digital images virtually replace analogue media. Many slide collections now have to be converted to a format which can more easily be incorporated into the modern workflow. This document explains the process of converting analogue slides into digital images and preparing them for delivery.
Read full advice document...Basic Guidelines for Image Capture and Optimisation
This document provides a guide to good practice in still image capture to help the user to design a workflow for capture and optimisation. The document highlights the main points that should be considered to ensure the highest quality output from your equipment.
Read full advice document...Choosing a File Format for Digital Still Images
The choice of file formats can often prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital imaging. The aim of this document is to explain some of the factors that should be considered before choosing a format and suggest suitable file formats for specific applications.
Read full advice document...Creating JPEGs from your Master Archive Images
I need to create a copy of our master archive for online delivery. I understand that I will have to convert the high resolution TIFFs to JPEGs, what is the advantage?
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Moving images advice tagged 'file formats'
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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Audio advice tagged 'file formats'
Free Online Audio Editors
There is a wide range of both free and commercial software which you can install onto your computer to record and edit digital audio, whether for podcast or music production. But what if you don't have the ability to install software on your machine, or it isn't powerful or fast enough for the task, or there isn't enough space, or if you simply don't want to?
For simple audio editing and processing tasks there are now a few versatile audio tools which you can access online via their providers' websites, and which run on remote servers while you remotely operate their interface through your familiar web browser, and stream audio to and from them via the internet.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...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.
Read full advice document...Choosing a Digital Audio File Format
The choice of file formats can often prove overwhelming for someone new to the world of digital audio. The aim of this document is to discuss some of the key factors that should be considered before choosing a format and suggest suitable file formats for specific applications.
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Cross-media advice tagged 'file formats'
File Formats and Compression
This document looks at the theory of file formats and the common methods of data compression.
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Blog entries tagged 'file formats'
New report on HTML video
Read blog entry...Google releases new image file format
Google has just released a new image file format called WebP.
Read blog entry...Online image size calculator
Our latest addition to the website is a Print Size and File Size Calculator.
Read blog entry...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.
Read blog entry...AAC explained
A new advice document covering Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), an audio compression method designed to replace MP3.
Read blog entry...Catch a wave - uncompressed digital audio
We've just published a new advice document covering uncompressed audio file formats.
Read blog entry...Everything you need to know about MP3
A new advice document looking at use and management of the popular MP3 audio format. From its suitability for use delivering audio in teaching and learning, to how to use ID3 tags to identify, catalogue and manage your MP3 resources, we look at all aspects of this most well known of sound file types.
Read blog entry...Flexible, scalable image formats
Following our recently updated advice on File Formats and Compression, we have just released an updated Introduction to the Vector Image Format.
Read blog entry...Video, audio and image file formats
We've just released a fully updated version of our advice document on File Formats and Compression.
Read blog entry...New digital restoration course among autumn training dates
The keen-eyed among you will have already noticed we have just released details of our new training programme for September to December.
Read blog entry...Updated advice on vector graphics
We've just released four fully updated advice documents on vector graphics.
Read blog entry...mp3HD has arrived
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New video file types document
Choosing a Digital Video File Type is a new advice doc that takes a look at different files types and how they might be used for different purposes. Suggestions are made for creating, capturing, archiving, and delivering digital video. Please comment if you have had any experiences (good or bad!) of using these or other file types.
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