Lynda.com - Digital Video Principles

Taught by award-winning producer/director/editor Larry Jordan, Digital Video Principles translates digital video terminology and breaks down the misconception that only professionals can edit digital video. Definitions are provided for many terms, such as progressive, interlaced, frame rate, data rate, fps, aspect ratio, sample rate, resolution, waveform, and many more. PC and Macintosh users alike, even those with no prior knowledge of editing software, will acquire a firm grasp of DV editing though this tutorial.

Table of contents:
-Introduction
-Welcome
-Video Terminology
-Video Terminology
-Video Standards
-Progressive vs. Interlaced
-Frame Rates
-Video Formats
-Image Size
-What is Aspect Ratio?
-Video Outputs
-Tape Formats
-Video as Digital Data
-Video as Digital Data
-Data Rates
-Storage Requirements
-Color Sampling
-Image Compression
-Working with Timecode
-24 fps Video
-24 fps Video
-What is 24 fps?
-Shooting 24 fps
-Popular 24 fps Formats
-Capturing 24 fps Video
-Converting 24 fps Video
-Color and Video
-Color and Video
-What is White-Balancing and How Does it Work?
-Color Spaces
-How to Read Scopes
-Color Bars
-Computer Graphics vs. Video Graphics
-Computer Graphics vs. Video Graphics
-Full-screen, Action Safe, and Title Safe
-Fixed Resolution - Default is 72 dpi
-Progressive vs. Interlaced
-Color Spaces - RGB vs. YUV
-White vs. Superwhite
-Square vs. Non-Square Pixels (NTSC vs. PAL)
-Section Conclusion
-Digital Audio
-Digital Audio
-Sample Rate
-Bit Depth
-Waveforms
-Why Are Audio Meters Important?
-Reference Tone Levels
-Setting Appropriate Audio Levels
-Goodbye

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