6 Motion courses in Leicester

MPEG TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course studies the MPEG standards for video and audio compression. A major focus is on MPEG-4 and MPEG-TS. Hands on includes decoding and analysing MPEG streams. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Recognise the main MPEG standards. * Describe the techniques used in MPEG video and audio compression. * Compare MPEG2m MPEG4 and MPEG-H. * Describe the MPEG-TS. * Analyse MPEG streams. MPEG TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with MPEG. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days MPEG TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction What is MPEG? MPEG and VCEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, MPEG-3, MPEG-4, MPEG-H, others, codecs and containers, licensing and patents, parts and layers (System, Video, Audio, others). * MPEG2 DVD, DVB, characteristics, MPEG2 Part2, audio MPEG2 Part 7 (AAC). * MPEG tools Wireshark, vlc, analysers, decoders, ffmpeg, wowzer. * MPEG2 Video compression Sampling, bit rates, resolution. Inter and Intra frame coding, I, B, P frames, GOP, slices, blocks, macroblocks. Motion estimation. Hands on Analysing MPEG frames. * MPEG4 Profiles and levels, Enhancements, Parts 1,2,3, Part 10 and AVC, Part 14 and mp4. Performance versus MPEG2. * MPEG audio Coding, frequencies, bit rates. * MPEG-TS PES, Transport Streams, TS elements, packets, PID, Programs, PSI, PAT, PMT, synchronisation, PCR, PTS. * MPEG-H Part 2 HEVC, benefits, improvements. * Video codecs What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing.

VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course investigates the characteristics of video coding with an emphasis on compression and the standards used in IP networks. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how video coding works. * Describe the main video coding standards. * Evaluate and compare the major video coding standards. VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with MPEG. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days VIDEO CODING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Video coding systems, encoding, transmission, decoding. Digital video formats: Old formats (CIF…), PC formats (VGA…), SD, HD, UHD. * Video codecs What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing. * Codec types Lossy, lossless, uncompressed. Quality, bandwidth. * Video Fps, bitstreams, pictures, frames, fields. Aspect ratios. * Colour Colour perception, RGB, YUV, YCbCr sampling, 4:00, 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4. * Hybrid video coding scheme Picture partitioning, intra prediction, inter prediction, motion estimation, residual coding, in loop filtering, entropy coding. * Containers Relationship with codecs, audio, video. Audio Video Interleave (.avi), .asf, QuickTime, AVCHD, Flash, .mp4, 3gp. MPEG-TS. * MPEG Analysing MPEG frames. * Video coding standards H.264/AVC: Profiles MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP. MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1. Hands onand levels, how it works. H.265/HEVC: Profiles and levels, Quadtrees, slices, how it works. Open video coding: VP8, VP9, AV1.

OVERVIEW Appreciative Inquiry is a form of action research that collects people’s stories of best practices.  We can use these best practices as a way to initiate organisational change. This course will guide attendees through the process of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) and give them the techniques to succeed in using the AI system. This course will benefit anyone that leads change and wants to create positive dialogue that leads to improvements within their organisation. DESCRIPTION David Cooperrider, Suresh Srivastva, and their colleagues at Case Western Reserve University developed AI in the 1980s. According to them, the aim of Appreciative Inquiry is to help the organisation in: * Envisioning a collectively desired future * Realising that vision in ways that successfully translate intention into reality and beliefs into practices The AI approach can be applied in almost all groups of people and once the process starts, the change is put in motion. The appreciative approach works in individual conversations among colleagues, managers and employees. AI consultants around the world are increasingly using an appreciative approach to bring about collaborative and strengths-based change. This course will provide attendees with the means to effectively develop the skills of managers for the benefit of their organisation. They will be taken through the full process of appreciative inquiry; developing a wide understanding of the tools and techniques required to effectively improve communication and affect change. What can Appreciative Inquiry achieve? Well, just imagine you were better able to: * Solve problems within an organisation in a positive and forward-thinking way. * Be more curious and excited about the challenges faced within the business. * Ask unconditional, positive questions to strengthen the organisations capacity to increase potential. * Approach change in an affirmative mindset. * Use questions to create movement and change within the company. * Simply apply core communication skills, for overall organisational success Topics covered: * What is Appreciative Inquiry? – A review of the subject with an activity that helps embed understanding and a case study that explains the process in action. * Benefits of Appreciative Inquiry to the Organisation – Establishing how AI can aid and improve the way an organisation works and how people communicate within it. Exploring how specific organisational issues can be viewed positively. * Appreciative Inquiry Questions – Understanding how questions can be used to identify positive organisational improvements and refocus our approach to business issues. * Appreciative Inquiry Interviews – A set process for performing AI interviews and framing consultations to get the best out of those involved. A chance to practice the given approach and hone personal skills. * The 4D Model – An overview of the AI 4D Model (Discovery, Dream, Design, Destiny) and how it is applied. * The 4D Model: Topic – Demonstrating how selecting the topic is the beginning of the 4D model process. Choosing the participants own topic to work on throughout the training. * The 4D Model: Discovery – Showing how positive discussions are kick-started at this stage and taking a chance to look at, ‘the best there is and what has been’. * The 4D Model: Dream – ‘Thinking big and beyond what they have in the past’. Creating an amazing and positive vision for the future. * The 4D Model: Design – Laying the foundation with a design of the vision, principles, and set of propositions that describe the ideal end state. Defining the desired state by creating a hierarchy and blueprint for success. * The 4D Model: Destiny – Defining clear actions that will help the organisation and individuals achieve what they have set out to. The output is the self-reinforcing nature of using positive and affirmative inquiry to improve the business. * The 4D Model: Summary Task – Review of learning and knowledge check. * The Change Process – Exploring Dr. Kotter’s 8-step change process and how it can support the AI approach. * Rooms of Change – Understanding feelings and attitudes to change, using this interesting and memorable model. Using an activity to help participants consider their own ‘change position’ and what this might mean for them. * Strategies for Managing Change – A simple set of skills to help overcome the challenges faced by people trying to implement change. Applying these strategies to the 4D Model and Appreciative Inquiry. * Recall Quiz – A chance to review learning in an engaging way. * Summary – Developing actions and key points to take away. WHO SHOULD ATTEND Managers who want to learn about and practice the Appreciative Inquiry approach to drive positive changes. REQUIREMENTS FOR ATTENDEES None.

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This one-day workshop is designed to enhance your PowerPoint skills to achieve dynamic presentations that work with you, making it easier to deliver a polished, professional presentation. You will learn advanced PowerPoint skills that will save you time and elevate your presentations. This course will help participants: * Create custom shows to personalise presentations for individual clients * Make the Slide Master work collectively with slide layouts and themes * Seamlessly interact with external content using links * Work with advanced animations and transitions, and video/audio tools 1 THEMES AND MASTERS * Add a Design theme to a presentation * Make changes to the Slide Master * Delete layouts from the slide master * Saving a slide master with themes as a template 2 ADVANCED GRAPHICS AND DIAGRAMS * Drawing, duplicating and resizing shapes * Grouping, aligning and stacking shapes and graphics * Using SmartArt for diagrams and organisation charts 3 GRAPHS AND CHARTS * Inserting and formatting a chart * Linking an Excel chart to a slide * Linking Excel tables to a slide * Animating charts 4 VIDEO, CUSTOM ANIMATION AND HYPERLINKS * Adding and editing video * Animating pictures and drawings * Hyperlink to another Slide or Website * Compressing and optimising media 5 PRESENTING * Reuse slides * Hide slides * Rehearsing timings * Enabling a presentation to run continuously