Recommend a book please...

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ZzBog

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Hello everybody,

Please, can anybody recommend a book, which can serve as an ultimate guide to video technology?

Some book, with the best explanation of how modern (I mean the most modern - HD mostly) hardware works, with the description of the workflow etc.

The guide for tech-newbies but without the neccessity of starting with 1899, great silent era, analog video and so on...

Several books maybe?

A list of books maybe?

But really worthy ones.

Please.
 
Wow, the analog era is been bypassed... I can believe that there will be people that will never see what an analog drop looks like.

Yes this forum is your best free resource.
 
Steve_Arm said:
Wow, the analog era is been bypassed... I can believe that there will be people that will never see what an analog drop looks like.

Yes this forum is your best free resource.
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Sort of like an LP. Some people will never see one of those either...
 
Books become outdated and need to be revised as technology advances.
Seriously, DVXUser is a great place to keep up on all the latest and greatest.

If you're like me and don;t understand what it all means, you can just post a message and sure as sh.. well you get the idea, someone will explain it. :)
 
Steve_Arm said:
Wow, the analog era is been bypassed... I can believe that there will be people that will never see what an analog drop looks like.

Yes this forum is your best free resource.
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And I think that's a huge shame.

All this digital techonology, from HD through computer bsed editing, etc etc.. ia all based and built on the history of video - most of which is analog.

To truly understand how, and why things work. You have to know the history.

Does it matter thay the VTR was invented in 1956 by Ampex? Naw.. but if you are wondering why a dirty head on your DVX makes blides across the image, it might help to now that the VTR-1000 back in '56 moved so much tape past stationary heads that rotating heads on a helical patern had to be invented. Many years of prograssion down the road, tape is still recoreded the same way, and if one of the 2 heads clogs, you get strips through only it's half of the image.

How can we shoot 24P? well thanks to interlacing. Interlacing came about because early TV's had so weak phosphors that the image would flicker if scanned at only 30 fps - so 60i scanning was invented. Beacuse of poor early TVs, we can shoot - and properly record - 24P today.

How about master pedestal and black level? There's another one attributed to old TVs and their phosphors...

To truly understand anything, you must know it's history and the reasons behind waht we see today. If you want to learn the techie side of video properly, start in 1884, with the first patented Television.


- Mikko ... can still edit just as fast with 2 decks as with a computer.
 
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