How video works / Marcus Weise, Diana Weynand.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weise, Marcus, author.

Contributor:

Weynand, Diana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home video systems.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Most used book by professionals in broadcast and post production video departments in the entertainment industry!HOW VIDEO WORKS (formerly Videotape Theory & Operations) offers to the working video professional or student a complete and thorough guide to understanding how the analog and digital broadcast video signal is captured, recorded, transmitted, and broadcast, and the equipment that supports that process. Written in an easy to understand style, this book has been a bible for professionals in the video world since 1985. Upd

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Video Evolution; Analog and Digital; Video Applications; About This Book; Chapter 2 Electronic Photography; Tube Cameras; Scanning the Image; Displaying the Image; CCD Cameras; Camera Chips; Chapter 3 Scanning; Video Lines; Blanking; Persistence of Vision; Fields; Interlace Scanning; Black and White Specifications; Chapter 4 Synchronizing the Analog Signal; Synchronizing Generators; Synchronizing Pulses; Drive Pulses; Blanking Pulses; Horizontal Blanking; Vertical Blanking; Vertical Synchronizing Pulses; Equalizing Pulses

Color SubcarrierCross Pulse; Other Signal Outputs; Vertical Interval Signals; Chapter 5 The Transmitted Signal; Modulating the Signal; Frequency Spectrum; Analog and Digital Broadcasting; Bandwidth; Satellites; Uplink and Downlink; Chapter 6 Color Video; Additive and Subtractive; Primary and Secondary Colors; The Color System; Harmonics; NTSC Color Transmission; NTSC Color Frame Rate; Vectors; Color Burst; Chrominance and Luminance; Color Difference Signals; I and Q Vectors; Other Color Standards; Chapter 7 Monitoring the Color Image; The Human Eye; Color Bars; The Monochrome Image

PLUGE BarsColor Image; Chapter 8 Analog Waveform Monitors; Graticule; Signal Components on Graticule; Waveform Display Controls; Signal Measurement; Filters; Reference; Inputs; Display; Combining Setups; Viewing Color Bars; Viewing an Image; Chapter 9 Analog Vectorscopes; Graticule; Axes; Vector Readings; Setup Controls; Input Selections; Calibration; Active Video; PAL Signal; Other Scopes; Chapter 10 The Encoded Signal; Analog and Digital Encoding; Analog Encoding Process; Analog Composite Signal; Analog Component Signal; Digital Encoding Process; Digital Composite Signals

Digital Component SignalTranscoding; Encoding and Compression; Chapter 11 Digital Theory; Analog Video; Digital Video; Sampling Rate; Computer Processing; Binary System; Digital Stream; Serial Digital Interface; Chapter 12 Digital Television Standards; Standards Organizations; Standards Criteria; Image Resolution; Aspect Ratios; Pixel Aspect Ratio; Interlace and Progressive Scan Modes; Frame Rate; Standards Category; Conventional Definition Television (CDTV); Digital Television Standards (DTV); High Definition Television (HDTV); Standard Definition Television (SDTV); Digital Audio

Chapter 13 High Definition VideoWidescreen Aspect Ratio; Image Resolution; Progressively Segmented Frames; Frame Rate; Film-to-Tape Conversion; HDTV Worldwide Standards; Converting an HD Signal; HDTV Applications; Chapter 14 Digital scopes; Digital Signal; Dual Digital Scope Overview; WFM601 Monitor Overview; Video Display; Video In; Sweep; Reference; Menu Section; Chapter 15 Compression; Lossless Compression; Lossy Compression; JPEG Compression; Motion JPEG Compression; MPEG Compression; MPEG-1; MPEG Variations; The MPEG Process; I Frames; P Frames; B Frames; The Group of Pictures (GOP)

IP Method

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611005849

9781136069741

1136069747

9781281005847

1281005843

9780080491486

0080491480

OCLC:

476059778