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Video

A series of static images that simulate movement. The main credit given to the origins of video goes to the Lumière brothers who developed the cinematograph in 1895.


Vitaphone

It is a system of sound on a disc developed by the Bell Telephone Company and Western Electric. It was used as a match in silent movies to give an environment context and narration to the stories. It was widely used by Warner Brothers in at least 100 of their first movies.



Movietone

It is a system of sound recording created in 1922 by Theodore Case and Earl I. Sponable; it integrated the sound to the images, and it was firstly used by Fox company, which is now known as 20th Century Fox.

Beta

It is an analogic format to produce home videos. It consisted of a magnetic tape developed by Sony. It was sold in 1975, and it has the capacity of storing 266 to 300 lines depending If it was black and white, or color. It recorded around 2 hours.


VHS

It stands for Video Home System. It was similar to an audio cassette with ½ inch tape. It was highly accepted for around 20 years before the appearance of DVDs.


Flash Memory

It is an EEPROM type memory (Electronically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory). It was created in 1984 by Fujio Masuoka. There are many versions of it: some have the shape of a pen, a bar, camera cards, etc. It is quick and silent, and it is easy to carry. It has a storing capability that is much higher than its predecessor, the floppy disc.


DVD

It stands for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. It replaced the Beta technology in recording and distributing video material. Its recording process is based on the use of laser instead of electromagnetism. This provides more quality in both audio and video.


Retinal persistence

It is the effect in the eye’s retina that makes the images perceived by the eye be recorded for a very small fraction of time, like a tenth of a second. When the eye is exposed to a succession of fixed images, the illusion of movement gives life to the magic of cinema. It was discovered by the Belgian Joseph Plateau.


FPS

It stands for Frames per second. It is the amount of frames that are shown on a video in a period of one second.

PAL

It handles 625 scan lines. It stands for Phase Alternating Line which consists on the using of 25 frames per second. It is used in Europe, Asia, And some countries of America. It is also divided into two screens, but they are sent as 50 packages per second.

NTSC

It stands for National Television System Committee. It consists on using 30 frames per second to create video, including an aspect ratio of 4:3 and an optimum handling of sound.


Signal divided in 2 screens of 262 scan lines. This subdivision is to send even lines and odd lines separately

SECAM

(Séquentiel Couleur a Mémoire): It is similar to PAL, but is less known. It was created in France, so its more used in Europe, and it has and optimum handling of color.

EDTV

(Enhanced Definition Television): It has SDTV (Standard Definition Television) technology, and it can display between 480 and 576 lines in the PAL or NTSC frequencies

HDTV

(High Definition Television): It worked with three resolutions: 720p, 1080i and 1080p; it has the ability to be converted as needed in order to commute among them. There are two possible values for the handling of the different resolutions: "p" or "i"

Blu-Ray

It refers to the technology based on a blue beam that allows the recording of different layers of a DVD, especially designed for high density recording. It may contain from 1 to 4 layers, and each ones has a capacity of 25GB. It handles HD information (1080/60), differently from the DVD which only handles 480p or 576p.

HD-DVD

It stands for High Definition Digital Video Disk. It was supported by Toshiba as a better alternative to DVD since it allowed a storing of 15 GB in each one of its layers.

Codec

It means coder-decoder. It is software that consists on an algorithm to compress and decompress video in real time. It use doesn’t interfere with the playing speed. There are also codecs for audio files


AVI

(Audio Video Interleave) It is one of the standard formats to store digital video in different platforms.It allows us to workwith other formats such as CinePark, Intel Indeo 5.


DivX

It is a codec that can be used in Windows and MacOs platforms to create MPEG-4 standards.


XviD

Its is a compression algorithm, developed by free programmers. It does not represent any loss of information. A complete movie can weigh only 700MB instead of several GB.

MPEG

It is a format that is considered standard to compress digital video. The extensions of the files under this format are .MPG or .MPEG. They can also integrate different kinds of codecs. This can be played on Windows Media Player and on Quicktime.


MOV

It uses Apple’s own codec, which handles the color palette of this platform optimally. It has a good compression and quality, which is why it is considered acceptable for web publishing.


WMV

(Windows Media Video). This format was designed by Microsoft. It is based on the MPEG-4 codec to compress the video. It can be found with the extension .ASF.


RM

(Real Media). It is the format of Real Networks for the video files. It is based on its own codec to compress the audio, and it has an extension .RM and .RAM. Its is necessary to have the Realplayer app to work.


FLV

(Flash Video) This format is based on the Sorenson Spark and On2 VP6 codecs. both allow a high visual quality no matter if the user has a high downloading speed in his devices. Their extension is .FLV which can be produced from different local programs such as MPlayer, VLC media player, Riva, Xine, etc...


VOP

(Video Object) It is the format that contains video, audio and subtitles. Its extension is .VOB and it is normally used in the distribution of DVD, being kept in order inside the folder of Video_Ts. It is based on the format MPEG for streaming, but it has some limitations and specifications to become private.


3GP

(Third Generation Partnership) It is used on mobile devices such as 3G telephones. It was developed with the purpose of having standards for mobile technology; the format mpeg4 was used as a base.


Script

it is the writing of the argument, the summary, montage, and literary and technical scripts. The script is also essential because it is the basis of any audiovisual means. we mark how a story should be told.

Scene

he place where some action or event occurs. A division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of the actors in one place. A unit of action or a segment of a story in a play,motion picture, or television show. The place in which the action of a play or part of a play is supposed to occur.

Dialog

Conversation between two or more persons. The conversation between characters in a novel,drama, etc. An exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, especially a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement.

Plot Twist

Shows the evolution of the acts that are the beginning, the development and the conclusion. The 1st act provides the setting: characters, time and space; the 2nd is the confrontation, and the 3rd one is the resolution of the conflict.

Storyboard

Is a group of images with notes, like graphic mind map in which the images are presented in sequence. Its purpose is to visualize a movie, an animation, a videogame or to follow the development of a story before it is done. It seen as a way to illustrate the text of the script.

Frame

They are browsing elements that create divisions in a browsing window to observe different documents at the same time

Perspective

It refers to the non-parallel lines that are stretched in a work until they reach an imaginary point called the vanishing point

Framing

It is an image that is seen through a camera viewer

Shooting

Also call it production, shooting, or filming. It is when all the pre-production details have been arranged and solved.

Editing

In order to edit a video or a group of videos and create a new one, it is necessary to choose the software to work with. Some software is used for basic or home use and some is destined to professional cinema. Most programs contain common basic tools.

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