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- From: mercurio@SDSC.EDU (Philip Mercurio)
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- Subject: UCSD Extension: VIDEO SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANIMATION
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:38:23 -0800
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- VIDEO SYSTEMS AND TECHNIQUES
- FOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS ANIMATION
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- A UCSD Extension Course
- University of California, San Diego
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- This ten-week course will cover the equipment and techniques re-
- quired to do computer graphics animation to video tape. Partici-
- pants will learn the technical basics necessary to design and use
- a computer graphics animation facility, as well as learn computer
- graphics tips and techniques for recording to video. Topics in-
- clude video signals and technical terminology; system configura-
- tions, including an overview of the latest equipment, choice of
- formats and media, and equipment requirements for both consumer
- and professional facilities; and production and post-production,
- including recording tips, aesthetics, strategies, and techniques
- for getting the highest quality from your images. Most materials
- will be provided. Equipment demonstrations and hands-on oppor-
- tunities augment the course.
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- Who should Attend
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- Those involved in the design and implementation of the computer
- graphics animation recording and post-production facility. Those
- interested in the trade-offs between various system configura-
- tions, and the issues to be aware of when choosing equipment.
- Those who work with or maintain computer graphics animation
- equipment. Those with animation experience, seeking to improve
- their computer graphics animation techniques. Individuals attend-
- ing should have an engineering or other technical background.
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- Syllabus
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- Video Signal Basics
- 1. Television Basics and Video Signals
- 2. Video Signals and Specifications
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- Video Signals II - Signals and Systems
- 3. Signal Distribution; Test and Measurement
- 4. Standards, Formats, and Media
- 5. Midterm
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- Production and Post Production
- 6. Scan Conversion and Recording Equipment
- 7. Recording and Recording Tips; Editing and Editing Tips
- 8. Formats: Image Processing and Effects; Distribution
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- Equipment
- 9. Review: Equipment Requirements and Tradeoffs
- 10. Final/Final Project
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- Kevin Landel is Head Engineer and Technical Director of the media
- production facilities at the San Diego Supercomputer Center,
- where he defined, designed and installed the audio and video fa-
- cilities for the Center's Advanced Scientific Visualization La-
- boratory, and now supervises and contributes to the production of
- the Vislab's computer graphics animations. He received his Mas-
- ters Degree in 1988 from the Media Laboratory at the Mas-
- sachusetts Institute of Technology, where he specialized in
- psychoacoustics and its applications to speech recognition sys-
- tems and interfaces. He received his BS/EECS from the University
- of California at Berkeley, with an emphasis on computer architec-
- ture and system interface design. Before coming to SDSC, Mr.
- Landel worked as a system design engineer at Amdahl Corporation,
- a mainframe computer manufacturer. He has worked as a crew
- member on the production of several movies, and has traveled to
- South America to shoot a documentary on the lifestyles of the
- rural people of Ecuador and Bolivia.
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- UCSD Extension Computer Science Course # X434.15 Index # 45054N
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- Time/Date: Saturday, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
- Jan. 9 to Mar. 20; no mtg. Jan. 16, Feb. 13 (9 mtgs).
- Location: San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium (UCSD)
- Credit: 3 units in Computer Science & Engineering
- Fee: $395
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- UCSD Extension (619) 534-0406 (24 hour information line)
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