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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Field dominance
Field sync
First field
Footprint, NTSC;
Footprint, PAL
Format conversion
Frame
Frame A
Frequency interleaving
Front porch
G 'B 'R '
along with all associated preceding sync elements. Fields were
once denoted
odd
and
even;
these terms should be avoided, and
first
and
second
(or in MPEG-2,
top
and
bottom)
used instead.
In an interlaced motion image sequence, the field parity (first or
second) where temporal coherence is susceptible to interruption
due to editing. In principle, video edits can be made at any field,
but good practice calls for edits at the beginning of the first field
(i.e., first ...
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ISBN: 9781558607927