A one-page worksheet to lock your non-video tracks before you ask a vendor for a quote: list your audio languages and codecs (AAC-LC floor plus surround alternates), set a catalog-wide loudness target, choose caption formats (WebVTT vs IMSC, and any embedded 608/708), plan SDH captions, described-video, and forced-narrative tracks, and confirm audio is demuxed from video so languages don't re-store the picture.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This worksheet locks your audio and subtitle tracks before a vendor quote: languages and codecs, loudness target, caption formats, SDH and described video. Our seven-volume handbook covers the full video stack; start with Volume 3 for subtitles and players, then Volume 2 for packaging and Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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