Sunday, August 28, 2005

Video Cameras



Video cameras were originally designed for broadcasting television images--see television camera. Cameras found in television broadcast centers were extremely large, mounted on special trolleys, and wired to remote recorders located in separate rooms. As technology advanced, miniaturization eventually enabled the construction of portable video-cameras and portable video-recorders.

Prior to the introduction of the camcorder, portable video-recording required two separate devices: a video-camera and a VCR. Specialized models of both the camera and VCR were used for mobile work. The portable VCR consisted of the cassette player/recorder unit, and a television tuner unit. The cassette unit could be detached and carried with the user for video recording. While the camera itself could be quite compact, the fact that a separate VCR had to be carried made on-location shooting a two-person job.

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Friday, August 26, 2005

DVD Release - The Exchange

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"The Exchange" DVD is now available. There are tons of features such as never seen behind clips to the making of The Exchange. Get your copy today at the website

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Friday, August 19, 2005

Digital video

Video cameras come in two different image capture formats: interlaced and progressive scan. Interlaced cameras scan an image in alternating sets of lines: the odd-numbered lines are scanned at one point in time, and then the even-numbered lines are scanned one clock tick later, then the odd-numbered lines are scanned again one clock tick later, etc. The set of odd-numbered lines or the set of even-numbered lines is referred to as a field, and a consecutive pairing of two fields of opposite parity is called a frame. Similarly, the set of all lines of a progressive scan image is also called a frame. Interlaced video captures twice as many fields per second as progressive video does when both operate at the same number of frames per second. Stills from interlaced video can show some artifacts, so deinterlacing is required in those cases. Progressive scan camcorders tend to be significantly more expensive than interlaced ones with the same frame rate and number of samples per frame.

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Thursday, August 11, 2005

Toronto independent films - The Exchange action movie

Keep checking online for the DVD of The Exchange, its coming soon! Visit the site to see what the DVD has to offer for you.

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Wednesday, August 10, 2005

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HD DVD (for High Density Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical media format which is being developed as one standard for high-definition DVD. HD DVD is similar to the competing Blu-ray Disc, which also uses the same CD sized (120 mm diameter) optical data storage media and 405 nm wavelength blue laser. HD DVD is promoted by Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, and (most recently[1]) Microsoft, and backed by four major film studios.

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Friday, August 05, 2005

Toronto video editing - blue-ray discs



Blu-ray Disc is a next-generation optical disc format meant for high definition video (HD) and high density data storage, and is one of two competing standards for HD optical media. Its competitor is HD-DVD. Blu-ray gets its name from the shorter wavelength (405 nm) blue laser that, in addition to other techniques, allows it to store substantially more data than a DVD, which has the same physical dimensions but uses a longer wavelength (650 nm) red laser. Blu-ray was jointly developed by a group of leading consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), which succeeded the Blu-ray Disc Founders (BDF). The Blu-ray camp is lead by Sony and Philips.

One single-layer Blu-ray Disc (BD) can hold about 25 GB or over two hours of HD video plus audio, and the dual-layer disc can hold approximately 50 GB (up to 54GB). The data transfer rate is 36 Mbit/s (54 Mbit/s for BD-ROM), but 2x speed prototypes with a 72 Mbit/s transfer rate are now in development. The BD-RE (rewritable) standard is now available, to be followed by the BD-R (recordable) and BD-ROM formats in mid-2004, as part of version 2.0 of the Blu-ray specifications. BD-ROM pre-recorded media are to be available by late 2005. Blu-ray Discs with capacities of 100 GB and 200 GB are currently being researched, with these capacities achieved by using four and eight layers respectively. On May 19, 2005, TDK announced a prototype four-layer 100 GB Blu-ray disc.

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Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Toronto video editing - Azure Production



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