Introduction to Video Production, 2nd Edition

10Video Recording and Editing Technologies

Video Recording Technologies

Unless you work for a broadcast or cable television station or network that is engaged in the live transmission of programs, the program material that you produce will most likely be recorded. Recording allows us to save programs so that they can be distributed at a later time. Recording also allows us to acquire program material that will be edited into its final form in postproduction.

With the advent of digital technologies, methods of video recording have changed. For most of the last half of the twentieth century, video recording was dominated by the process of magnetic recording onto videotape. (See Figure 10.1.) Today that process has been replaced by video recording ...