Video Streaming is the way of broadcasting video across the Internet and allows anyone to produce movies for a worldwide audience online. Channel 4 are offering 6 places on a custom-made video streaming course, Highland Stream, to be run in Inverness on 2nd & 9th July 2006.

Targeted at would be film-makers based in the Highlands & Islands, Highland Stream participants will learn how to film for streaming on the Web, how to edit their work for web screening, and how to select the right encoding format to allow their films to be seen online at their best.

Led by four top television and streamed interactive media professionals, the hands-on course will enable those who come along to see what works well and what doesn't, different streaming formats, and learn how to gauge file sizes and programme lengths. Participants will also make a short streamed programme which will be uploaded to Channel4's website.

Lucy Conway, Commissioning Editor for Channel 4 IDEASFACTORY in the Highlands & Islands said

“With the growth in Internet and mobile technologies there’s been an explosion in opportunities for people to see their work up on the Web. But with the techniques for creating film for Web screening being so different from other formats, a common mistake is to think that a film that’s been made for television or cinema screen can be easily transferred to the web, often with disappointing results. So if people are looking to show off their short film credentials on the internet, Highland Stream will be a very important course; not only providing the very best one to one tuition in filming, editing and encoding techniques, but also the opportunity to have their film uploaded to a Channel 4 website.”

For more information and application details would be film-makers should log on to www.channel4.com/ideasfactoryscotland . Closing date is 17th June 2006.