An Introduction to Video and Audio Measurement, 3rd Edition

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. DEDICATION
4. Full Title
5. Copyright
6. Contents
7. Preface
8. Acknowledgements
9. Introduction
10. Part One: The Foundation
    1. 1. Circuits and signals
       1. Sending signals
       2. Source and destination
       3. Receiving a signal
       4. Terminating the cable
       5. Creating a standard
       6. Cable and wireless circuits
       7. Where next?
    2. 2. Time and the complex signal
       1. Converting to an electric signal
       2. The concept of time
       3. Bandwidth
       4. How about digitising?
    3. 3. What is video?
       1. Sending pictures
       2. The video system
       3. The timebase
       4. The video waveform
    4. 4. Measuring video
       1. Black level
       2. The waveform monitor
       3. Timing and system sync
       4. 'Scopes versus WFMs
       5. New display methods
       6. Using the WFM
    5. 5. Adding colour
       1. Colour components
       2. Colour bars
       3. Transmitting pictures and composite video
       4. The colour burst
       5. Colour and vectors
       6. NTSC and PAL
       7. Phase errors
       8. The vectorscope
       9. The end of PAL and NTSC?
    6. 6. New technology
       1. Two-circuit component
       2. The component standard
       3. What is digital?
       4. 4:2:2 … and all that!
       5. Why digital?
       6. The synchroniser
       7. Sending digits
       8. Measurement of digital video
       9. Compression
       10. JPEG and MPEG
       11. The quest for quality
11. Part Two: In Practice
    1. 7. First steps—the camera
       1. Terminations
       2. Camera colour bars
       3. The picture
       4. Colour balance
       5. Sensitivity and exposure
       6. Adjustments and simple checks
       7. Menus and digital cameras
       8. A footnote …
    2. 8. The studio
       1. Signal levels
       2. Timing
       3. Composite colour timing
       4. Mixer timing procedure
       5. Installing a remote camera
       6. The greyscale
       7. Light level
       8. Camera control
       9. Engineering
       10. And the digital studio?
       11. Digital timing
    3. 9. Recording
       1. Analogue and generation loss
       2. Setting up to edit
       3. Examples of digital tape standards
    4. 10. Distortions and test signals
       1. Linearity and phase distortion
       2. DC errors
       3. Frequency distortion
       4. Pulse and bar
       5. Further points about test signals
       6. Calibration
       7. Comparing signal to signal
    5. 11. Digital specialities
       1. Bowtie and lightning
       2. Checking gamut with arrowhead
       3. Eye display—the circuit tester
       4. EDH and CRC
       5. Portable instrumentation
    6. 12. Using the picture
       1. Setting up the picture
       2. Using the picture
       3. Measuring with Vical
       4. The in-picture waveform
    7. 13. More on pictures
       1. The Good Picture
       2. Screen appeal
       3. Contrast and gamma, and beyond
       4. Measuring the screen
       5. Screen types
       6. More on colour bars
       7. Video is like film
       8. How big is the picture?
       9. A story of lost colour
       10. The bad picture
    8. 14. Introducing audio
       1. VU versus PPM
       2. Tone, the audio test signal
       3. Equalisation and compression
       4. Microphones
       5. Audio connectors
       6. Sound levels
    9. 15. Hints, tips and hang-ups
       1. A simple meter
       2. Using headphones
       3. Digital dithers
       4. Domestic bliss
       5. Brain teasers
12. And Finally …
13. Appendix
14. Glossary
15. Bibliography
16. Index