Canon XL1 3CCD Camcorder User Manual


 
Channels
‐Mostaudiofromcomputersiseithermonowithasinglechannelorstereowithtwochannels.
‐Lowbitratesgenerallyusemonobecauseitrequiresfewerbits.Theindustryisevolvingtouse
multichannel(5.1and7.1)audiosupportaswell.
Perceptualaudiocompression
‐Mostmoderncodecsuseperceptualencodingtechniques:
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aninternalmodelofthehumanauditorysystemdeterminestheimportantpartsofanaudiosource
andspendstheavailablebitsonthoseparts.
Compressionefficiency
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definedbyhowmanybitsarerequiredtoreachaparticularqualitylevel.
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Whenimprovingcompressionefficiency,youcanchoosetolowerthedataratewhilekeepingthe
qualitythesame,increasethequalitywhilekeepingthedataratethesame,orpickapointin
between.
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Typically,thehigherthedatarate,thesmallerthequalitydifferences.
Authoringvideoforfuturecompression
‐Onekeytohighqualitycompressioniscreatingcontentthatcompresseswell.
‐Thereareavarietyoftechniquesfordoingthis:Youcanapplythesetechniquesduring
preproduction,production,orpostproduction.
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Preproduction:It’sbesttointroducetheideaofcompressionearlyinaproject,soallmembersof
theteamcanconsidertheimplications.
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Production