Phil Crawley

[Video]: Video Compression 101

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Jigsaw24’s Chief Engineer, Phil Crawley, explains video codecs from the fundamentals up. Codecs touch every part of the broadcast chain and are a vital part of the industry as much as of day to day life. So it’s worth brushing up or learning the basics to help you to fully understand what’s happening with today’s codecs, whether that be HEVC, AV1, JPEG XS or trusty MPEG4.

Phil covers:

  • Compressed and Uncompressed video & codecs
  • DCT Principles
  • Intra/Inter-frame compression
  • Acquisition Vs Editing Vs. Transmission codecs
  • Measuring compression effects
  • Codecs Vs File Formats & wrappers
  • Compression concatenation
  • MPEG4, H.264(AVC) & H.265(HEVC)

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Speaker

Phil Crawley Phil Crawley
Chief Engineer,
Jigsaw24

Meeting: Video Compression Fundamentals Tech Breakfast

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11th July 2018, 09:00 BST
Location: Jigsaw24, 8 Golden Square, Soho, London, W1F 9HY

The Tech Breakfast at Jigsaw24 continue this time with a look at video compression fundamentals. Codecs are a vital part of the industry and almost part of day to day life, so the experts from root6, Phil Crawley and Matt Ward, will help you get a grasp of the basics and understand what’s happening with today’s codecs, be that HEVC, AV1 or trusty MPEG4. All this, plus a pastry and a drink!

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Meeting: Jigsaw24 Breakfast Tech Talk

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Date: 26th June 2018, 09:00 BST
Location: Jigsaw24, 8 Golden Square, Soho, London, W1F 9HY

The Tech Breakfasts are back, this time with a look at PSE (Photosensitive Epilepsy) testing for video in broadcast. With Telestream demoing Vidchecker and the experts from root6, Phil Crawley and Matt Ward, you can find out what you need about the regulations and how to meet them…all at the same time has having a pastry and a drink.

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Meeting: Jigsaw24’s Tech Breakfasts – AES67

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Meeting: 9am-9.45am • 8 Golden Square, Soho W1F 9HY • 31st January 2018

The first in a series of Tech Breakfasts, kicking off at 9am, this session will focus on AES67 and audio networking standards. There will be some breakfast bites to get you ready for the day ahead, and the experts will be hanging around afterwards so you’ll have the chance to put your tough technical questions to them.

Experts on hand:
Phil Crawley, Head of Systems Integration, root6
Phil has over 30 years’ experience as a broadcast engineer. He was previously the Technical Director of The Resolution Post Group, Chief Eingineer at Oasis Television, and worked on the first three series of Big Brother before joining root6 to oversee the design commission and certification of systems integration projects. In his spare time, he makes handheld games consoles and is a member of the Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

Matt Ward, Senior Engineer, root6
Matt worked with some of London’s leading music recording studios before making the jump to video post and handling delivery to national broadcasters. He’s worked in post-production and broadcase ever since. He’s a member of the SMPTE, and was previously a Technical Manager at Strongroom Post-Production, Breathe Post-Production and Air Post-Production.

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