Paul E. Burrows
University of Utah/KUED Media Solutions, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

ABSTRACT:

Why can't you have full frame, full motion video play over the Internet?Why does web video not meet your quality expectations? How can you optimize your digital media for web distribution? If these are questions you struggle with or have thought about, then this pre-workshop on Streaming Digital Media for the Web may be of help. I will follow the workflow from a "videotape in hand" to producing, posting and viewing a streaming media file from a web page. The following will be highlighted:

1. Workflow & Tools: Acquiring, Digitizing and Encoding Video

2. Production Values: How digital video handles camera movement and special effects

3. Decision Points: What parameters can be adjusted to maximize the performance of video on the web (data pipelines, codecs, data rates, frame rates, frame sizes and audio samples)

4. Multimedia Architectures: Choosing QuickTime, RealMedia or Windows Media

5. Comparison & Contrast: Examples of digital video, web page embedding options, page design issues

6. Interactive Shells: Web Media Players aren't just for linear video anymore

7. Web Server Options: How to post streaming media for distribution

NOTE: This preworkshop primarily focuses on preparing linear streaming media for the Internet distribution. The preworkshop by Nieder & Pearsonon Interactive QuickTime and Wired Sprites is a great follow up to this session.

Overviews of various video editing and media compression tools for distributing digital media over the Internet. In-depth look at options and procedures in producing quality digital streaming media. Dozens of samples of streaming media, comparing and contrasting quality and features.

Paul E. Burrows
KUED Media Solutions
University of Utah
101 South Wasatch Drive 215EBC
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1792
USA

Phone: 801-581-7908
Fax: 801-585-3584
Email: pburrows@media.utah.edu
Website: http://stream.k12.ut.us/medsol/digvid