Video Basics - How images sequences are captured, stored, and presented to viewers.

Analog Video Formats - Video signals, their size, resolution, composite, component parts, and television formats NTSC, PAL, and SECAM.

Digital Video Formats - How color and intensitity in digital video formats are defined, 4:2:2, 4:2:0, SIF, CIF, and QCIF.

Capturing Video - How to capture video, the optional settings and how they affect the quality of the video.

Video Digitization - How to periodically sample video and convert it into digital signals that represent image levels, colors, and other characteristics of video.

Video Compression - How to analyze and represent video signals in a form that requires less data bits.

IP Video Transmission - How to convert video into packet form and transfer it through packet data networks.

Multimedia File Formats - How digital video sequences can be coded and mixed with other media types such as audio.

Streaming Digital Video - How to connect to media sources, request video programs, and how the systems manage the continuous transfer of media (streaming).

Video Control Protocols - How video signals can be setup and controlled.

Digital Video Quality - How to measure the difference between the original video signals and the video presented to the viewer.