PrefaceThe DV Revolution Continues:What This Book Is and How toUse It
The true digital video revolution that burst on the scene five years ago was not the result of a particular camera, computer, or other piece of technology. It was a convergence of the right pieces of technology at one time. Digital video recording formats were around much earlier than 1999, and we’ve been editing digital video on computers (with varying degrees of quality) for even longer. Using binary numbers to “make movies” wasn’t really breaking any new ground, even back in the late nineties.
What was revolutionary was the development of an easy, convenient, systematic workflow. Instead of balancing a lot of extremely expensive and temperamental technology in pursuit ...
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