T2V004 LowRes

T2V004 LowRes

Overview

Software provided

Notes: (1) for YUV viewer software, see the list on the YUV viewers page

(2) for broadcast applications and how to play-out the video clips in real-time over SDI (or similar), see the broadcast applications page

2D / 3D	2D
Compressed/ Uncompressed	Uncompressed
Description of video	Scenes from the USA (New York, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Florida) and Europe (London, Munich, Barcelona and Bruges)
Purpose	Test an encoder to deal with lower resolution video (D1PAL and below; web-sized), in all aspects of global and local motion, slow/medium/fast motion, with panning, scrolling, zooming, smooth and erratic, high/low contrast, with limited colours/vivid colours and many common subject types
Number of clips	840 individual video clips (70 each at resolutions below)
Length of video	Total of over 9 hours 52 minutes (over 49 minutes each at 1080p, 720p and 1080i resolutions)
Total size on disk	179 Gbytes
Video format(s)	YUV 4:2:0 planar 8 bits per sample [originally filmed at 25 fps]
Audio format(s)	MPEG-1 Layer II stereo 384kbps CBR 16-bit 48kHz and WAV linear PCM uncompressed stereo 1536kbps 48kHz

Program name	Purpose
yuvcropsize	Utility program to reduce size of video by removing lines from the top and/or columns from the right of each video frame: allows virtually any reduced size video to be made from the video files provided.
yuvfieldcombine	Combine interlaced fields which are stored in alternating format (bottom field followed by top field, each half-height) into frames where alternate lines contain alternate fields
yuvletterbox	Add black bars top & bottom (or left & right) of each video frame to create letterboxed (or pillarboxed) video

List of clips

Features list

Manual (part)

Clips summary (list of clips & thumbnails)

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Example of documented clip features

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Extract of user manual (first 30 pages)

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Example NTSC images (NOTE some quality loss due to JPEG)

Single frames from 6 of the clips in the set (720x480 resolution)

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Ex. images