Television technology demystified a non-technical guide
""Television Technology Demystified"" is written for non-technical television production professionals. Journalists, program producers, camera persons, editors, and other television professionals need to know how equipment works, which performance levels are achievable, how to e...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
Focal/Elsevier
c2006.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009626871006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; 1 Development of Television Technology - A Sweep through History; Optoelectric Transformation; The Nipkow Disk; The Cathode-Ray Tube; The Birth of Television; 2 Light and the Human Eye; Light in Television Production; The Nature of Light and Human Vision; White Light and Color Temperature; Monochromatic Light; Color Matching; Measurement of Light; 3 Generating a Television Picture; Picture Scanning; Progressive and Interlaced Scanning; The Basic Video Signal; 4 Color Television
- Splitting the White Light and the Selection of PrimariesPicture Generation or Optoelectric Conversion; Picture Display; Transmission Path; The Principle of Modulation; The NTSC System; The PAL System; The SECAM System; Transcoding and Standards Conversion; 5 Digital Television; What Is a Digital Signal?; Analog-to-Digital Conversion; Why a Digital Signal?; Digital Standards Conversion; The International Digitization Standard; Convergence; 6 Digital Compression as the Key to Success; Why Compression?; Compression Methods and Tools; The MPEG-2 Bit-Rate Reduction Method
- Exploiting the Spatial RedundancyExploiting the Statistical Redundancy-Entropy Coding; Exploiting the Temporal Redundancy; Compression Levels and Applications; DV Compression; The MPEG-4 Compression System; Compression and Picture Quality; Concatenation Loss; 7 Digital Audio Compression Methods; Human Auditory System; Analog-to-Digital Conversion of Audio Signals; Digital Audio Compression; Audio Compression Methods and Standards; 8 Exchanging Program Material as Bitstreams; File Transfer; Metadata; Material Exchange Format-MXF; AAF and Other File Formats; 9 Television Cameras
- The Optical SystemSensors; Camera Processing Circuitry; Basic Quality Parameters; 10 Video Recording; The Evolution of Videotape Recorders; Basic Principles of Magnetic Recording; Practical Recording Characteristics-Losses; Specific VTR Problems and Their Solutions; Videotape Recording Formats; Videotape Recording Methods; Azimuth Recording; Digital Videotape Recording; Tapeless Recording; 11 Video Editing; The Development of Video Editing; Linear Editing; Time Code; Nonlinear Editing (NLE); 12 The Networked Production; Basic Aspects of Networked Systems; Media Asset Management Systems
- Integrated Digital Newsroom Operations13 Television Graphics; Basic Technical Requirements; Computer Generated Imaging; Character Generators; Graphics Workstations; Virtual Sets; Selecting a Computer Graphics System; 14 HDTV; Development of the HDTV Concept and Technology; HDTV Production Equipment; HDTV and D-Cinema; Acronyms and Selected Abbreviations; Index
