Digital Picture and Sound Artefact
Course Syllabus
DIGITAL PICTURE & SOUND ARTEFACTS
for 'OPERATIONAL' staff
A One Day Course
This course can be provided 'in-house' on request
Course Outline
The aim of this short course is to enable operational staff to identify picture and sound faults that arise from new digital transmission technology.
This course is designed for operational technicians and as such, little or no prior knowledge of digital compression and transmission theory is needed.
The course will be of particular interest to the following areas of responsibility:
management, sales and promotions, production, scheduling, library, transmission controllers,technical directors, quality control technicians.
Course Syllabus
AM
Session 1 - Basic Overview of Digital Transmission
Analogue versus digital, why? What is 601. A few parameters about digital audio, how does it compare with CD audio?. Compression MPEG 2 what is it and why. Transmitting the signal , the data stream and the multiplex. Overview of satellite transmission. What can go wrong, rain fade and sun outages how does digital transmission change things?
Session 2 - From the studio to the viewer
Overview of the pictures and sound as they travel from the studio to the viewer. Practicalities of MPEG compression with some demonstration. Demonstration of the digital precipice. A closer look at the digital multiplex including some aspects of interactivity.
PM
Session 3 and 4 - Picture and Sound artefacts
Practical viewing and discussion of picture and sound artefacts. Digital faults included will be blocking, digital noise, audio break up, mosquito wings, motion artefacts, resolution etc.
Review and conclusion.
In order to ensure that course content is up to date, published JLA syllabus documents are onstantly under review. Thus course content may not be exactly in line with the topics indicated above.
© JOHN LISNEY July 1999