Micro-credential - Motion Picture Engineering

This micro-credential suits engineers in a start-up in the video streaming space or designing image enhancement technology as well as those embarking on a graduate degree in Video Engineering. If you have just joined a post-production house or start up this micro-credential is excellent for on-boarding. It has been developed to benefit engineers interested in learning more about the design of engineering systems that enable video streaming and cinema production platforms. Engineers with a background in Information Science and Engineering including Electronics, Computer Science, Mathematics would be well prepared for this micro-credential. Learners will advance their professional competencies through coursework targeted at industry-standard video processing platforms including NUKE and ffmpeg and taught by an Academy Award winner in motion picture effects. Learners will consider design and deployment of both video compression technologies and video processing enhancement tasks for the cinema and media streaming industry. How will this Micro-credential be delivered? This micro-credential is available as hybrid learning. It will take approx 6 hours per week, 50% of which will need to be done in-person.

On successful completion of this micro-credential:

• You will learn about engineering design in both high-end postproduction and best in class streaming media workflows.
• The first part of the micro-credential gives you both the mathematical underpinnings of algorithms for rotoscoping, matting and motion estimation and the practice of developing your own tool in a high-end platform.
• In the second part you will learn about the fundamentals of video compression technology and how that is applied to content aware transcoding.
• You will domain insights from practitioners in industry e.g., Google, YouTube, BBC, Facebook, Foundry, Weta, and others.