A sound person's guide to video /
An essential guide to all aspects of video technology for sound technicians wishing to broaden their knowledge. It explains in a highly readable and engaging way, the key technologies and issues, as well as the terms, acronyms and definitions. Although intended for the sound professional, this book...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Boston :
Focal Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional) |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; A Sound Person's Guide to Video; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 1. The origins of television and video; In the beginning; Scanning; The coming of colour; A new standard; Video; 2. The magic of television; Colour television; 3. Video recording
- the impossible dream; Early developments; Helical scan; U-Matic; Domestic video formats; 4. The electronic eye; Part 1: Camera basics; Tube cameras; Charge-coupled devices; The colour camera; Part 2: The modern camera; Hyper HAD; Into digits; Master Set-up Unit; 5. ENG and Betacam SP; Betacam
- Compressed time division multiplexed systemAudio in Betacam; The future; 6. Digital video; D1; D1 error protection; D2; D3 and D5; Why so many formats?; DV and DVCPRO; Small is beautiful; Nuts and bolts; DVCPRO; Digital cinematography; Step up from SP; Compression; Yet another format?; The kit; The accessories; 7. Standards conversion; Three problems; Sampling; Composite video; Interpolation; Motion compensation; Comparing standards converters; 8. The video monitor; Sync and scan; Antenna to CRT; Display technology; The shadow mask; Progressive scan; Flat panel displays; LCD; Plasma displays
- Future technologies9. Home cinema; The vision; Audio; Virtual Surround; 10. Nonlinear editing; Offline/online; Timeline; Integration; 11. JPEG and MPEG2 image compression; JPEG; Discrete cosine function; Entropy coding; Results; JPEG for moving pictures; MPEG2; Syntax and semantics; Spatial and temporal compression; Motion estimation prediction; Profiles and levels; Applications; 12. Digital television; Digital television in the UK; Digital video; Broadcasting; Possibilities; On demand; The consumer angle; Widescreen; Conclusion; Digital television in the USA; Technical issues; 13. Film
- A brief history of filmMeanwhile in France ... ; The coming of sound; Widescreen; Sideways look; Colour; 3D; Why film will prosper; 14. Film stock, film laboratories; Formats; Types; Intermediate and print film; Laboratories; Rushes; Printing; Editing and regrading; Release print; 15. Cinema technology; Lamphouse; Reels and platters; Lenses; Sound head; Cinema systems; 16. IMAX; The camera; Projection; The IMAX cinema; Post-production; 17. Telecine; Film feats; Technology; Cathode ray tube; Scanning; Digital processing; High resolution; 18. Pulldown; 29.97; PAL pulldown; So what should you do?
- A new frame rate?19. Lighting technology; Film and video lighting; Lamps glow, bulbs grow; HMI; Broads, Blondes and Redheads; Moving light, changing colour
- performance lighting; To boldly gobo; 20. The art of bluescreen; Rotoscoping; Ultimatte; Motion control; Appendix 1: The science of colour; Light; The eye; Subtractive colour mixing; Additive colour mixing; Colour triangle; Colour temperature; Appendix 2: Timecode: the link between sight and sound; The nature of timecode; Types of timecode; Timecode generation; Sound and picture, working together; Finger sync; Code-only master