Program Overview

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Overview of the Motion Picture Engineering Micro-credential

The Motion Picture Engineering micro-credential is designed for engineers interested in learning about the design of engineering systems that enable video streaming and cinema production platforms. This micro-credential benefits engineers with a background in Information Science and Engineering, including Electronics, Computer Science, and Mathematics.

Course Details

• Awards: 10 ECTS | Level 9
• Number of Places: 5 places
• Next Intake: January
• Course Coordinator: Daniel Wearen
• Course Director: Prof. Anil Kokaram
• Closing Date: 2nd January

Admission Requirements

• Applicants must have a 2.1 grade in a level 8 degree in Engineering or a cognate discipline.
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Course Fees

The course fees can be found on the postgraduate fees list.

What You Will Learn

You will learn about engineering design in both high-end post-production and best-in-class streaming media workflows. The first part of this 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.

What You Will Do

• You will use the cinema industry standard NUKE compositing platform to develop your own application for a cinema effect, then draft a short scientific paper about your effect including reporting on visual fidelity and computational complexity.
• Learners will also attend guest lectures from internationally acclaimed industry experts.

How the Micro-credential Will Be Delivered

This micro-credential will be delivered in a blended format (in-person/online) built around 7 contact hours per week with a fixed 3-hour and 2-hour block for practical work and 1-hour blocks for lecture material every week during daytime hours.

Assessment

• This is a 10 ECTS course and there are 4 exercises and 1 mini-project.
• The mini-project is built around the design of a colour-keyer in NUKE which you also write up in a 4-page paper.
• There are 2 quizzes about the underlying mathematics of effects and compression and 2 practical laboratory exercises.