By Elina Shatkin, March 8, 2005
For the fifth year in a row, Stanford University will be holding its Digital Media Academy, a summer program that offers creative digital media workshops for educators and adult learners and summer computer camps for teens.
One of the featured classes is Mastering Video Compression, a week-long, intermediate/advanced class designed to help students master video compression. The class will cover all the major formats in depth, including QuickTime, Windows Media, RealVideo, Flash, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (including DVD) and MPEG-4. Like last year, each student will have both a Mac and Windows box on their desk all week.
The class is typically a good mix of students doing compression, or wanting to learn compression, from education, institutions, and business
. Graduates of the class have gone on to do very interesting things, like becoming product managers for compression tools and leading the compression group within their enterprises. And almost every graduate says they learn more in that week than they'd learned on their own in the past year.
The class covers the entire video compression workflow, from pre-production, production, post, capture, compression, and delivery.
The class is always tuned to the interest of the students, and everyone is encouraged to bring their own media and projects that we can use in class projects.
The seminar is run through the Digital Media Academy program, and provides Stanford University credits, so it's reimbursable by many employers. Dorm housing and a meal plan is available for those coming in from out of town.
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