
primerTABLE OF CONTENTS1 Introduction1 Video basics12 Digital video formats and camcorders 16 Conguring your system 19 The creative process: an
10A Digital Video Primer Most codecs compress video using intraframe compression. With intraframe, or spatial, com-pression, each frame of video is co
11A Digital Video Primer MPEG-2 compression MPEG stands for the Moving Pictures Expert Group, an organization of lm and video profes-sionals involved
12A Digital Video Primer A few words about analog video connections e music industry has already converted to digital. Most music today is mastered,
13A Digital Video Primer What makes DV better than analog video? ere are many benets of the standard DV format, particularly when compared to analog
14A Digital Video Primer • Sony Digital Betacam, DigiBeta, or Betacam SX, IMX, and HDCAM: ese formats are the choices of high-end broadcast professio
15A Digital Video Primer Optical image stabilization is best. ere are three kinds of image stabilization in handheld camcorders: optical, digital, an
16A Digital Video Primer Configuring your system Whether you’re a professional or a hobbyist, choosing the right combination of soware and hardware ca
17A Digital Video Primer Even when the processing load is shared with or shunted to a video card (there’s more on video cards later in this section),
18A Digital Video Primer It is unlikely that the amount of storage that comes as standard equipment with your computer will be adequate for your video
19A Digital Video Primer The creative process: an overview of movie-making Let’s assume you have a story to tell. Whether you are making a very short
2A Digital Video Primer With digital, the signal recorded on a tape or sent through the air consists of nothing more than a string of one and zeroes t
20A Digital Video Primer • Storyboards: You may also choose to do storyboards, which are sketches of key moments in the action, like a comic strip. St
21A Digital Video Primer Post-production What comes out of production is a collection of clips: shots taken in dierent places at dierent times. To a
22A Digital Video Primer DV without delay If you shot DV or HDV, or if your raw material is on DV tape, capturing your clips can be as easy as plug-an
23A Digital Video Primer Importing computer graphics You can import or export many dierent types of video, audio, and image formats. Support for inpu
24A Digital Video Primer Nonlinear editing It’s nally time to put it all together. Nonlinear editing (NLE) makes editing and assembling your producti
25A Digital Video Primer Staying organized A short production may include only a few clips; longer productions may require hundreds or even thousands
26A Digital Video Primer Looking for approval? With Adobe Premiere Pro, you can assemble a storyboard or rough cut in minutes. Using the Icon view in
27A Digital Video Primer Use Source Monitor controls to play, pause, and scrub a clip. Use tools to set video, audio, and program In and Out points. S
28A Digital Video Primer Ripple editsIn this example of a ripple edit, the Out point of a clip is moved two frames to the right in the timeline, resul
29A Digital Video Primer All transitions, except a cut, have duration, alignment, and direction parameters. Duration refers to the length of the trans
3A Digital Video Primer While the continuous-tone contrast range of lm is still greater than even the highest deni-tion video, there are many compel
30A Digital Video Primer Still more ways to enhance your productions Adobe Premiere Pro lets users create motion, picture-in-picture, and keying eect
31A Digital Video Primer Although static titles, graphics, and logos may suce for some projects, many others require titles that move across the scre
32A Digital Video Primer Adobe Premiere Pro provides built-in vectorscope, waveform, YCbCr Parade, and RGB Parade monitors to provide accurate represe
33A Digital Video Primer Digital audio for video Just as you create a nished video product with color correction, you can polish the audio, so that s
34A Digital Video Primer When you import or capture a video clip that contains audio, the audio and video tracks are linked by default, so that they m
35A Digital Video Primer You can import AVI les and sweeten audio tracks while you watch video playback, then resave the AVI le with a new audio tra
36A Digital Video Primer Visual effects and motion graphics Adobe Premiere Pro provides a wide range of transitions and eects, as well as powerful cap
37A Digital Video Primer Video compositingCompositing is the process of combining two or more images to yield a resulting, enriched image. Composites
38A Digital Video Primer 2D and 3D compositing: You can animate images in either 2 or 3 dimensions. With either type, you can move objects horizontall
39A Digital Video Primer Text/character generation: With Aer Eects, you can type and edit text directly in the Compo-sition panel using the Adobe-st
4A Digital Video Primer Converting filme term telecine refers to the combination of processes, equipment, and soware used to per-form lm-to-video co
40A Digital Video Primer Visual excitement: For each eect that comes with Aer Eects or that you add to your toolkit, there are an unlimited number
41A Digital Video Primer In addition, Aer Eects includes Turbulent Displace and Magnify eects for creating special-ized distortions. Turbulent Disp
42A Digital Video Primer • Adobe Photoshop: You can transform layered Photoshop images into animations. Import Photoshop les as compositions, one at
43A Digital Video Primer Good housekeeping In professional production environments, aer a video project has been completed, it is typically cleared f
44A Digital Video Primer Conclusion We hope this Digital Video Primer has answered enough of your questions to encourage you to get started. We know t
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46A Digital Video Primer Information about MPEGwww.mpeg.org/MPEG/www.coolstf.com/mpeg/Information about DVDwww.dvddemystied.com/dvdfaq.htmlwww.videog
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48A Digital Video Primer NewsgroupsIf you use an internet application that lets you access newsgroups, you can read and respond to postings in the fol
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5A Digital Video Primer Resolution e quality of the images you see in lm and video is not only dependent upon frame rate. e amount of information i
50A Digital Video Primer Glossary4:1:1 color: Nonbroadcast color-sampling system in which for every four samples of the luminance (Y) component, one s
51A Digital Video Primer Aspect ratio: e ratio of an image’s width to its height. For example, a standard video display has an aspect ratio of 4:3. A
52A Digital Video Primer Codec: Compressor/decompressor or encoder/decoder; hardware or soware that handles the compression of audio and video to mak
53A Digital Video Primer Fields: e sets of upper (odd) and lower (even) lines drawn by the electron gun when illuminating the phosphors on the inside
54A Digital Video Primer Key: A method for creating transparency, such as a blue-screen key or a chromakey. Keyframe: A frame that is used as a refere
55A Digital Video Primer MPEG: Moving Pictures Expert Group of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which has dened multiple sta
56A Digital Video Primer Preproduction: e planning phase of a lm or video project, usually completed prior to com-mencing production. Previsualizati
57A Digital Video Primer Scrubbing: Variable-rate backward or forward movement through audio or video material using a mouse, keyboard, or other devic
Trimming: May refer to setting the In and Out points of a clip (usually with handles) or to actually removing unwanted portions of clips. Uncompressed
6A Digital Video Primer Another factor to be aware of regarding resolution on digital TVs is the physical size of the screen. ere are more dots place
7A Digital Video Primer Today, as a result of the popularity of letterboxed lms on DVD, broadcast TV, and HDTV, many new televisions come with wider
8A Digital Video Primer Like computer monitors, televisions also display video using red, green, and blue phosphors. However, television signals are n
9A Digital Video Primer Color space issuesWhen producing video, knowledge of color sampling is a plus, but you will rarely have to think about it. Typ
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