[Formats for audio/video in electronic theses]

[Leo Robert Klein]

On 17 Jun 2001, Mark Jordan wrote:

>Like many universities, we are finally having to confront the submission
>of totally electronic (i.e., "born digital") theses. We are now preparing
>to accept our first one, which contains a small amount of video and audio
>material.
>
>What formats do other univeristy libraries recommend for video and audio
>clips that are part of electronic theses?

You might want to think about storing the video in Quicktime using the 
Animation codec set at little or no compression.  You can then burn this to 
a CD-ROM.   This is a common enough solution for people in the multimedia 
biz and it might work for you as well.

LEO
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