ErMaC's Guide to All Things Video

NOTE: A newer version of these guides can be found here.

Chapter 1:	Video Basics - Television Video, Digital Video, Resolutions, Framerates, and Aspect Ratios
Chapter 2:	The Big Picture - Interlaced vs. Progressive, Fields vs. Frames, 3:2 pulldown and Inverse Telecine
Chapter 3:	The Ins and Outs of Video Compression
Chapter 4:	Advanced Video Compression - Various Codecs, Formats and their Pros and Cons
Chapter 5:	DVDs: What They Are and How To Use Them
Chapter 6:	How to do Awesome MPEG Encodes with TMPGEnc
Chapter 7:	How to do Awesome DivX Encodes with Nandub