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Technical Processing of Audio-Video - Manuals for Logging, Editing, Compressing, and Uploading Audio-Video Material
Once audio-video tapes have been created, the next step is to extract desired titles from those tapes and technically process the edited tapes so that they can be used in computers. This is a time consuming process involving capturing, editing, mastering, compressing, and uploading the audio-video from its source on tape into a finished title that can be used in a computer. First one must log the tapes to detail their content in relationship to their time-location on the tapes, then digitize the parts of the tapes one wants to use, then edit that material in Final Cut Pro into sequences with title and credit slates, and finally compress each sequence into formats usable in computers and on the Web. Since the original audio-video is so dense with data, compression is necessary to reduce the size of files to make them manageable in computers (unfortunately this also reduces visual quality). Then one must upload those compressions to the proper places on the server, generate thumbnail images to go with each title as it appears in the audio-visual database, and link the database title entries to the proper compressions. Each step of this process is discussed in the manuals below:
- Overview of Audio-Video Technical Processing
- Final Cut Pro
- Processing the Source Media
- Logging and Capturing footage
- Editing titles
- Compressing titles
- Linking the Compressions to the AVDB
- Generating and Uploading Thumbnail Images for Each Title
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