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Standards & formats

File formats & codecs

What is hi-def video?

Camcorders

PAL & NTSC

DLTV & film aspect ratios

Timecode & synchronisation

Media player software

Filming a computer screen

To eliminate screen flicker when filming a computer screen try setting your camcorder to a shutter speed of 1/50 or use a slow 4x (or LP) recording speed. If this doesn't work try experimenting with similar settings until you find one that works for your screen refresh rate.

You may find that your Camcorder has a special mode (Canon call it "ClearScan") to enable you to film monitors.

DV production articles

DV signal flow & codec

DV camera craft

DV shot logging sheet

Depth of field An article by Derrin Edwards explaining the relationship between aperture, exposure, focus etc

Basics of video lighting

Importing analogue video into a DV project Guidelines

DL Creating text and still images for DV (such as titles)

Getting DV to look like film

Using alpha channels

Compressing video

File formats & codecs

Keyframes

Media player software

Data rate & data size

The Sorenson codec

Video for the web & CD/DVD rom

Optimising video concepts

Optimising settings for web & multimedia video

Integrating video into web sites

Web streaming video

Caching, streaming & buffering

Streaming video with QuickTime

Final Cut Pro stuff

DLProject & asset file management in Final Cut Pro/Express

Importing analogue video into a DV project

Getting DV to look like film

QuickTime

What is QuickTime?

Optimising video for CD/DVD ROM & the web

How to produce high quality QuickTime video

DV & Adobe Premiere

Click here to view an article which contains guidelines and advice on producing DV video for the screen using a DV camcorder, Adobe Premiere and QuickTime.

Video for DVD

DVD authoring menu All the articles you need are here.

Digital video