Hi all,

Anyone knows good training course , full time /part time on dvd authoring. (If any want to persue it as a profession)

Cheers.

London College of Printing specialises in Digital Media Production and Film and Video courses; try enquiring at the college, they might also do special courses in DVD authoring. Website is at:

http://www.linst.ac.uk/courses/colcpf.htm

..also you could try a search on UCAS (Universities & Colleges Admissions Service)

Ali

If your intrested in authoring then I would recommend you try and do a degree in a much versatile course like electronics engineering. As making a DVD product involves a whole load more then just authoring. Also DVD isn't going to be around forever so doing a degree that covers much ground (along with self study everytime technolgy changes) might help you to stay in the profession till robots take over everything

I agree with Sunny Audit.

More that that make sure you take a course in Digital Signal Processing / Digital Image processing / Digital Video processing.

MPEG 2 is soon gonna be redundant with the next generation Video coding techniques soon to be launched ( actually they are there on the web itself). My research work involves in one aspect of Video coding ( alebit 3-D video coding)

The next generation of Video coding will be Progressive scan MPEG-4 Video coding techniques using such techniques as Object based retrieval etc. ( in effect if you want more information about a particular object in a moving scene you can zoom only on that part of the object and you can see it more clearly than the others ).

An alternative to this would be MPEG 7 which is gonna be used for Television broadcast.

The ultimate effects would be enabling a user to view all televison broadcasts / DVD movies in a virtual reality environment ( my research work ) with all the conventional audio e.g. DTS. DD 5.1 etc. !