2. • There has been competition regarding what the best camera is.
•Digital cameras have improved over the years, to reach film cameras in terms of
megapixels.
3. Film size
•There have been mind-blowing types of film sizes used over the years.
•Each film is measured in ‘mm ‘ meaning the wider the film in mm , gives
you a better picture quality.
4. Digital Resolution
• Frames are broken into small pixels and it depends what camera or
television you have. But the more pixels you use, the better quality it comes
out.
5. Aspect Ratio
• The ratio of the width of an image to its height, usually the ratio is 4:3.
6. Standard definition High definition
Either PAL (UK) or NTSC (USA) Increase in display or visual image
Low quality than HD
Either 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio
Can be broadcast/ shown in
Digital (Freesat)
DV PAL is a SD format – we use it
lots.
8. Formats
Computers encode videos in
lots of different ways.
9. The right digital format
•Important to use the right format to maintain quality.
•Some editing systems cant accurately edit with certain formats due to
problems caused by compression
10. Online vs Offline
Online editing Offline editing
uses the highest possible quality to Import the footage at a lower level
edit. of quality
The takes large amount of Modern computers can deal with
computer power and storage – 1080p footage online.
when working with very large
formats (2K/4K) not a good idea.
Re-import the footage used in the
edit at high quality ready for final
export.
11. Linear vs Non Linear
Linear
The process of selecting, arranging, and modifying the images and sound
recorded is called linear video editing. This video can be captured by video
camera, or even generated from computer graphics
Non linear
•Digital Video editing is non linear
•You can reorder the footage and make changes at any time without any
major problem
•You can go back and change an edit easily
•You can make fine adjustments
•You can create digital transitions and effects easily and quickly
