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Wireshark 101 Webinar Offline–A First

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Explaining nuance to those who are merely tangential to the field of that nuance always gets close to explaining magic. At CinemaCon, the marketing gurus (or teams) who win the excellence awards fortunately won’t explain what it is they did to achieve the year’s or lifetime prize. (Spoiler: Teamwork and happy clients.) Likewise, the technology award show that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held the week before the more famous event doesn’t become a course in the latest de-Beyerization technology. (Teamwork and excited photons. See: Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum)

For those who with a ‘tween events craving for awards, the DCinemaTools Security Section would like to give the “Explaining  to non-technical people what the interwebz looks like while it is working” Award to the Wireshark University founder and chief explainer Laura Chappell. [This may take a re-working of what non-technical really means.] And in a great quirk of fate, since we encouraged everyone to sign up for the 101 Course webinar last month (but really…how many people did it?) …the usually online only course is suddenly available for offline viewing…even downloading!

Here is what the email says:

Yes – I have good and bad news about the Wireshark 101 webinar you were scheduled for tomorrow. I have a conflict on my schedule and will need to cancel the webinar. (That’s the bad news.)

The good news is that at 3:00am this morning I uploaded the newly-recorded webinar (as so many people have requested). The Wireshark 101 class is now available for online or offline viewing! (Seriously – download the FLV files if you want!)

View/Download Location: www.lcuportal2.com (click Free Wireshark Class on left) – or click the direct link here.

There are four sections in the class:

Part 1 [14:17]: Wireshark Internals and Placement (drivers, capture on switched networks, capture at the client first)

Part 2 [10:54]: Creating Profiles and Using Capture Filters (customization, capture filtering, capture to file sets, ring buffer)

Part 3 [14:17]: Display Filters and Coloring Rules (fast display filter techniques, color-coding lousy traffic patterns)

Part 4 [15:00]: Expert, Charts and Graphs (launching the Expert, interpreting IO/RTT/Time-Sequence graphs)

I know folks have asked for this for a loooooong time. The conflict on the schedule pushed me to get this done!

If you have questions after watching the course, email those questions to Joy DeManty ([email protected]) – I’ll be adding a “Most Commonly Asked Questions” video to the set!

I’m not sure why you are reading further. Get those instructional videos for yourself and your friends. Don’t waste time around here. And bookmark the ChappellU site so that you can grab those Most Commonly Asked Questions when they are released.

Basic Lessons

Wireshark 101 Webinar Offline–A First

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Explaining nuance to those who are merely tangential to the field of that nuance always gets close to explaining magic. At CinemaCon, the marketing gurus (or teams) who win the excellence awards fortunately won’t explain what it is they did to achieve the year’s or lifetime prize. (Spoiler: Teamwork and happy clients.) Likewise, the technology award show that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held the week before the more famous event doesn’t become a course in the latest de-Beyerization technology. (Teamwork and excited photons. See: Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum)

For those who with a ‘tween events craving for awards, the DCinemaTools Security Section would like to give the “Explaining  to non-technical people what the interwebz looks like while it is working” Award to the Wireshark University founder and chief explainer Laura Chappell. [This may take a re-working of what non-technical really means.] And in a great quirk of fate, since we encouraged everyone to sign up for the 101 Course webinar last month (but really…how many people did it?) …the usually online only course is suddenly available for offline viewing…even downloading!

Here is what the email says:

Yes – I have good and bad news about the Wireshark 101 webinar you were scheduled for tomorrow. I have a conflict on my schedule and will need to cancel the webinar. (That’s the bad news.)

The good news is that at 3:00am this morning I uploaded the newly-recorded webinar (as so many people have requested). The Wireshark 101 class is now available for online or offline viewing! (Seriously – download the FLV files if you want!)

View/Download Location: www.lcuportal2.com (click Free Wireshark Class on left) – or click the direct link here.

There are four sections in the class:

Part 1 [14:17]: Wireshark Internals and Placement (drivers, capture on switched networks, capture at the client first)

Part 2 [10:54]: Creating Profiles and Using Capture Filters (customization, capture filtering, capture to file sets, ring buffer)

Part 3 [14:17]: Display Filters and Coloring Rules (fast display filter techniques, color-coding lousy traffic patterns)

Part 4 [15:00]: Expert, Charts and Graphs (launching the Expert, interpreting IO/RTT/Time-Sequence graphs)

I know folks have asked for this for a loooooong time. The conflict on the schedule pushed me to get this done!

If you have questions after watching the course, email those questions to Joy DeManty ([email protected]) – I’ll be adding a “Most Commonly Asked Questions” video to the set!

I’m not sure why you are reading further. Get those instructional videos for yourself and your friends. Don’t waste time around here. And bookmark the ChappellU site so that you can grab those Most Commonly Asked Questions when they are released.

Basic Lessons

Wireshark 101 Webinar Offline–A First

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Explaining nuance to those who are merely tangential to the field of that nuance always gets close to explaining magic. At CinemaCon, the marketing gurus (or teams) who win the excellence awards fortunately won’t explain what it is they did to achieve the year’s or lifetime prize. (Spoiler: Teamwork and happy clients.) Likewise, the technology award show that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held the week before the more famous event doesn’t become a course in the latest de-Beyerization technology. (Teamwork and excited photons. See: Albert Einstein: Why Light is Quantum)

For those who with a ‘tween events craving for awards, the DCinemaTools Security Section would like to give the “Explaining  to non-technical people what the interwebz looks like while it is working” Award to the Wireshark University founder and chief explainer Laura Chappell. [This may take a re-working of what non-technical really means.] And in a great quirk of fate, since we encouraged everyone to sign up for the 101 Course webinar last month (but really…how many people did it?) …the usually online only course is suddenly available for offline viewing…even downloading!

Here is what the email says:

Yes – I have good and bad news about the Wireshark 101 webinar you were scheduled for tomorrow. I have a conflict on my schedule and will need to cancel the webinar. (That’s the bad news.)

The good news is that at 3:00am this morning I uploaded the newly-recorded webinar (as so many people have requested). The Wireshark 101 class is now available for online or offline viewing! (Seriously – download the FLV files if you want!)

View/Download Location: www.lcuportal2.com (click Free Wireshark Class on left) – or click the direct link here.

There are four sections in the class:

Part 1 [14:17]: Wireshark Internals and Placement (drivers, capture on switched networks, capture at the client first)

Part 2 [10:54]: Creating Profiles and Using Capture Filters (customization, capture filtering, capture to file sets, ring buffer)

Part 3 [14:17]: Display Filters and Coloring Rules (fast display filter techniques, color-coding lousy traffic patterns)

Part 4 [15:00]: Expert, Charts and Graphs (launching the Expert, interpreting IO/RTT/Time-Sequence graphs)

I know folks have asked for this for a loooooong time. The conflict on the schedule pushed me to get this done!

If you have questions after watching the course, email those questions to Joy DeManty ([email protected]) – I’ll be adding a “Most Commonly Asked Questions” video to the set!

I’m not sure why you are reading further. Get those instructional videos for yourself and your friends. Don’t waste time around here. And bookmark the ChappellU site so that you can grab those Most Commonly Asked Questions when they are released.

Basic Lessons

Free Wireshark Training

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Which is what Laura Chappell figured out and has dealt with. It isn’t for everyone in your organization, but someone in your organization should know this tool well enough to be certified in the use of it. DCinema networks are getting more complex as the shift to IMBs and more reliance upon TMSs and outside resources like satellites.

Chappell University – Online Wireshark Training

Wireshark · the world’s foremost netowrk protocol analyzer – Go deep.

That said, when I saw FREE on one of the training pages, I said, “Color me there.”

Chappell University – Training Schedule

 

2012 COURSE LIST

[Register] FEB 15 10am PST Wireshark 202: Coloring Rules free

[Register] FEB 16 10am PST Filter with Snort Rules [AAP Event]

[Register] MARCH 14 10am PST Wireshark 101: Introduction free

[Register] MARCH 15 10am PST Filter Expression Button [AAP Event]

[Register] APRIL 25 10am PST First 5 Troubleshooting Steps [AAP Event]

 

There is so much more to the Chappell website of course. On this page (Chappell University Online Portal) is a DVD ISO image with a Lab Kit, just the thing to get your techs launched into the concept of being a professional in the art…instead of knowing how to thread a film in the projector, they have to see how the movie threads through the network and which parts need a little lite oil, which might need a touch of the hammer.

One could always go with An Idiot’s Guide…oops, the Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies book, available for download from another network consulting group. Go to Riverbed’s page: Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies | Documents | Media & Downloads

Good luck to us all. One way or the other, the ideas and techniques of training the cinema tech support staff in the tools of their trade will prove worthwhile. Outsourcing seems so year 2000.

 

Basic Lessons

Free Wireshark Training

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Which is what Laura Chappell figured out and has dealt with. It isn’t for everyone in your organization, but someone in your organization should know this tool well enough to be certified in the use of it. DCinema networks are getting more complex as the shift to IMBs and more reliance upon TMSs and outside resources like satellites.

Chappell University – Online Wireshark Training

Wireshark · the world’s foremost netowrk protocol analyzer – Go deep.

That said, when I saw FREE on one of the training pages, I said, “Color me there.”

Chappell University – Training Schedule

 

2012 COURSE LIST

[Register] FEB 15 10am PST Wireshark 202: Coloring Rules free

[Register] FEB 16 10am PST Filter with Snort Rules [AAP Event]

[Register] MARCH 14 10am PST Wireshark 101: Introduction free

[Register] MARCH 15 10am PST Filter Expression Button [AAP Event]

[Register] APRIL 25 10am PST First 5 Troubleshooting Steps [AAP Event]

 

There is so much more to the Chappell website of course. On this page (Chappell University Online Portal) is a DVD ISO image with a Lab Kit, just the thing to get your techs launched into the concept of being a professional in the art…instead of knowing how to thread a film in the projector, they have to see how the movie threads through the network and which parts need a little lite oil, which might need a touch of the hammer.

One could always go with An Idiot’s Guide…oops, the Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies book, available for download from another network consulting group. Go to Riverbed’s page: Network Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Dummies | Documents | Media & Downloads

Good luck to us all. One way or the other, the ideas and techniques of training the cinema tech support staff in the tools of their trade will prove worthwhile. Outsourcing seems so year 2000.

 

Video Processing

Final Cut Pro X-Apple Training Series

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Final Cut Pro X-Apple Training Series

by Diana Weynand 
www.peachpit.com – $54.99

Review by Steve Douglas

Final Cut Pro X-Apple Training Series at Ken Stone’s Site

For those wanting to get in on the ground floor of the new editing application that is Final Cut Pro X, Peachpit Press and Diana Weynand continue their long standing history of providing supplemental training via their Apple Pro Training Series of tutorial books. For those seeking certification in any of Apple’s applications, it is these ‘Training Series’ line of books that one needs to use to prepare for the Apple certifications.

When reviewing Ms. Weynand’s last two books covering Final Cut Pro 6 and 7 within Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, I was critical of the fact that new features had not been addressed within revisions of the books but, instead, readers were requested to go on line for supplemental reading regarding new features. With Final Cut Pro X being as new as it is, happily, there is none of that found in this, her latest and first book on Final Cut Pro X.

Read more with pictures and arrows…

Final Cut Pro X-Apple Training Series at Ken Stone’s Site

Cameras

Pearls of 3D–Audio Interview, Steve Schklair

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Broadcast Engineering has an exclusive interview with 3D entrepreneur Steve Schklair, founder and CEO of 3Ality Digital. The conversation weaves broadcast 3D concerns with feature information. 20 minutes of Must Hear.

TRAINING 3-D CREWS REACHES CRITICAL LEVEL

Mandatory listening for anyone who has read the Walter Murch/Roger Ebert article.

 

Video Processing

Effect Lessons

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Tutorials

After Effects Basic Training – 10 Free Lessons

VIDEO COPILOT | Professional After Effects Tutorials, Plug-ins & Pre-Keyed Stock Footage
            Free Stock-Pack Appreciation Day

From Forum Post: Effects availible for Lightworks

Revisionfx primere effects
Pete warden after effects 
Top Video Editing Effects According to About.com
144 After Effects Plug-Ins
New Blue Cartoonr effect
Free Frame effects
The Plugin Site – might be very out dated
StevenGotz Plugins
Tool farm<-pretty much a big list of links to plugins for effects

Centered On Quality Control

Training Sites–Exhibition

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As digital cinema exhibition makes the transition from a science project to a commercially viable network of locations and activities, there are several places to learn the basics. 

Each year, for example, the EU/Italian group Media Salles holds a D-Cinema Training. The last few were in England, and the next course will be in Finland in 2010. Details are available at their site, Media Salles Training. Media Salles is also a member of the EDCF, the European Digital Cinema Forum, which has information from their many meetings available to the public. If you become a member, you can download even more information, including pdf files of their two magazines on Mastering and Alternative Content. 

Barco has a complete schedule of classes. Harry Mathias at DCMP also holds classes on demand. 

Learning Online

Another consulting group with an enormous amount of information on DCinema, ranging from history to politics and emerging technology is Michael Karagosian’s MKPE Site. Look especially at the different topics under the menu pull down marked Digital Cinema.

The group Film Tech is a great resource for documentation, and sprinkled throughout is information on DCinema. There are also several dcinema forums where projectionists discuss the good and bad that they have found in the booth.  In the same vein, of a film-centric site making the transition to providing digital information, is the Mad Cornish Projectionist. Humour abounds. 

A phenomenal group of videos from Disney Digital Cinema give essential data to a projectionist on how to handle digital movies, especially 3D. Likewise, there is a terrific site of very instructive movies at the site of the Cine Tech Geek. 

The real essentials of Digital Cinema are conveyed in the hundreds of pages of documents at DCI Movies. That site contains the Digital Cinema Specifications and the System Specification Compliance Test Plan. Anyone who reads them all gets bonus points. NATO also has an important document, the Digital Cinema System Requirements (pdf), which goes through many technical digital cinema points from the exhibitor’s viewpoint.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Science & Technology Council has a downloadable paper named The Digital Dilemma which brings out much of the data concerning long term storage of digital productions. 

More simply and in a Socratic way, working through the Digital Cinema Naming Convention will give a lot of information, and also help organize the data with the relevance to other information. In the same way, the powerpoint at the Harkness Screens site aligns many important points.

Last but hopefully not least, The Directory of DCinema Glossaries on this site lists a number of sites which are filled with DCinema data from the acquisition/camera, post production and exhibition fields. In full disclosure, DCinemaTools is part of the DCinemaCompliance Group, with training and compliance plans as described in this document: Coordinating DCinema Training and Compliance. The link below (seen only if you are logged in) will download the same file.

Please mention other resources as you find them in the comments.