Special Facilities for Video Encoding in RealVideo G2 and MPEG-1

To facilitate our users to develop multimedia material with video contents, the Computer Centre has set up two special PC stations for video encoding in Room RR-104, Run Run Shaw Building. One station supports encoding in RealVideo G2 format and another one supports encoding in MPEG-1 format.

These PC's can be used  by staff, postgraduate students and undergraduate students working on projects under staff supervision.  Interested users should apply for the use of these special facilities by completing the Application Form for Special Facilities which is obtainable at the counter of Centre's General Office (Room RR-223).  Advanced booking is required for using the special facilities.

The two PC stations support the following video input sources: VHS tape, DV tape, VCD, MPEG-1 file and AVI file. An S-VHS video recorder/player is available for use with either one of the PC's for playing back users' VHS tapes. To play back DV tapes, the user should bring along his own DV CamCorder together with the required S-Video or composite video connection cable.

A CD-R drive is provided with the PC for MPEG-1 video encoding. Users can make use of this drive to record his MPEG-1 encoded video file(s) on a CD-R  disc.
 
 
Video Encoding PC Configurations
RealVideo G2 video encoding PC Pentium III 450, 128MB RAM with AVI Video Capture Card
MPEG-1 video encoding PC Pentium II 450, 128MB RAM with MPEG-1 Video Capture Card

The following digital video production software packages are installed in the PCs:
Software packages
Adobe Premiere 5.0 For AVI video editing
Snazzi Amigo For MPEG-1 Video Encoding
RealProducer Plus G2 Encoder For RealVideo Encoding
RealProducer Pro For SMIL Presentation Editing
RealPlayer G2 For playing RealVideo file
Adaptec EasyCD Creator Deluxe For creating CD-R disc

For information on converting standard video into RealVideo clip, please refer to User Document for RealVideo Encoding.

For information on converting standard video into MPEG-1 video, please refer to User Document for MPEG-1 Encoding.

To save a file into a CD-R disc, please refer to User Document for CD-R Drive.

For more information on using these video encoding facilities, please contact the undersigned.

George Poon
Tel: 2241-5302
Email: skpoon@hkucc.hku.hk


Note: CD-R stands for "CD-Recordable". Recordable CDs are WORM (Write Once, Read Multiple) CDs that can be written and read by CD-R drives and can be read by ordinary CD-ROM drives.

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