Types

Of Video Camera

Digital Video

Component Of Video Camera

Video Production Process

Functions Of Video Camera

Panning Of Video Camera

Types Of Shot

TYPES OF VIDEO CAMERA

Portable camera

Larger studio model camera

Studio camera is always mounted on a tripod and dolly for rolling Portable camera also can be mounted on tripod if needed.

COMPONENTS OF VIDEO CAMERA

Zoom: ability to move closer or further from an object while standing still.

Focus ring: used to create sharp image

Aperture setting/Iris: adjust the size of the lens opening (light conditions)

Viewfinder: allows us to see what the lens is seeing.

Auto focus/Auto Aperture: for beginner and auto setting (easy setting).

Main Purpose: To change the scene viewed through the lens into an electronic signal to be transmitted to the VCR. This conversion takes place in the camera tube or in semi-conductor chips in newer cameras.

SEVERAL TYPES OF SHOT:

EWS: VWS: WS:

Extreme Wide Shot Very Wide Shot Wide Shot

MS:
MCU: CU: ECU:

Mid Shot
Medium Close Up Close Up Extreme Close Up

PANNING OF VIDEO CAMERA

Panning refers to the horizontal movement or rotation of a film or video camera; or the scanning of a subject horizontally on video or a display device. Panning a camera results in a motion similar to that of someone shaking their head no.

In video technology, the use of a camera to scan a subject horizontally is called panning. Panning is used to suggest fast motion and bring out foreground from background. Example: A runner frozen in midstride while background is streaked and/or skewed in the opposite direction of the subjects travel.

OUTLINE AND SCRIPT REVIEW

1) Meeting to provide relevant information to include in the video. 2) writers work develop a script SHORT LIST PREPARATION Needed shots mapped out before shooting begins (storyboarding)

Digital Video

Type of video recording system Works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal. History: 1) 70s/80s: Time Based Correctors (TBC) & Digital Video Effects (DVE) were introduced that operated by taking a standard analog video input and digitizing it internally.

Digital video was first introduced commercially in the Sony D-1 format, recorded an uncompressed standard definition component video signal in digital form instead of the highband analog forms that had been commonplace until then. 3) Consumer digital video first appeared in the form of Quick Time, Apple Computers architecture for time-based and streaming data formats, which appeared in crude form around 1990

Initial consumer-level content creation tools were crude, requiring an analog video source to be digitized to a computer-readable format. 5) Low quality (MPEG-1 & MPEG-2); for use in tv transmission & DVD media. 6) Intro of DV tape format; allow recording direct to digital data and simplifying the editing process, allowing non-linear editing systems to be deployed cheaply and widely on desktop computers without external playback/recording equipment needed.

The widespread adoption of digital video has also drastically reduced the bandwidth needed for a high definition television signal (HDV,AVCHD & DVCPROHD) and tapeless camcorders based on flash memory and often a variant of MPEG-4

Technical Overview Digital video cameras come in 2 different image capture formats: Interlaced Progressive scan

Interlaced: Interlaced cameras record the image in alternating sets of lines. The odd-numbered lines are scanned Then the even-numbered lines are scanned Then the odd-numbered lines are scanned again; so on One set of odd or even lines is referred to as a field and consecutive pairing of two fields of opposite parity is called a frame.

Progressive Scan: progressive scan digital video camera records each frame as distinct, with both fields being identical. Thus, interlaced video captures twice as many fields per second as progressive video does when both operate at the same number of frames per second. This is one of the reasons video has a hyper-real look, because it draws a different image 60 times per second, as opposed to film, which records 24 or 25 progressive frames per second.

Standard film stocks such as 16mm and 35mm record at 24 or 25 frames per second. For video, there are two frame rate standards: NTSC and PAL, which shoot at 30/1.001 (about 29.97) frames per second and 25 frames per second, respectively. Digital video can be copied with no degradation in quality. No matter how many generations a digital source is copied, it will be as clear as the original 1st generation of digital footage.

Digital video can be processed and edited on NLE (non-linear editing) station, a device built exclusively to edit video and audio. These frequently can import from analog as well as digital sources but are not intended to do anything other than edit videos. Digital video can also be edited on a personal computer which has proper hardware and software. Using an NLE station, digital video can be manipulated to follow an order, or sequence of video clips.