Voice & Vision, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 8 The Digital Video System

 

 

 

 

 

When you pick up a camera—whether it’s the one built into your smartphone or an Arri Alexa XT 4K—you are in fact encountering a history of development that spans almost 150 years. Today’s cameras, even high-definition video cameras, rely on the same basic principles that drove the earliest motion picture systems. As a professional media maker who seeks to be in control of the aesthetic possibilities of the medium you are working in, you will need to understand a complex array of specifications: frame rates, aspect ratios, resolutions, color encoding, sampling and data rates. Each of these has much to do with technological innovations that occurred at various points in the history of the film, and ...