Download or read book A Technical Introduction to Digital Video written by Charles A. Poynton and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using computers and communication systems, it is easy to acquire, process, transmit, and display photographic-quality still color pictures. But the goals of smooth motion and accurate color reproduction are elusive. The technologies of digital video that are necessary to achieve these two important goals have remained inaccessible even to technical professionals-until now. In this unique book, an internationally recognized expert addresses digital video from the perspective of computing and communications. A Technical Introduction to Digital Video is an approachable and definitive reference to the principles, algorithms, standards, and techniques of digital video. If you are a computer system designer, engineer, programmer, or technician, you can use this book to help you learn how to apply digital video to computer systems. If you are a television professional, this book will help you to apply digital video systems, equipment, and techniques to the emerging area of multimedia.
Download or read book Digital Video and HD written by Charles Poynton and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2003 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: & Quot;Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces covers the theory and engineering of digital video systems in a manner that is equally accessible to video engineers and computer graphics practitioners. It provides succinct and accurate treatment of standard-definition television (SDTV), high-definition television (HDTV), and compression systems. & quot;--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Art of Digital Video written by John Watkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industry "bible" is back and it's better than ever. The Art of Digital Video has served as the ultimate reference guide for those working with digital video for generations. Now this classic has been revised and re-written by international consultant and industry leader John Watkinson to include important technical updates on this ever-evolving topic. The format has also been improved to include optional sections that provide additional information that you can choose to skip or investigate further, depending on your interests and comfort level with the subject. As the worlds of film, digital imaging, and computing have converged, this book has evolved to remain current and relevant, while still remaining the classic that experts in the field have trusted for years.
Download or read book A Beginner s Guide to Digital Video written by Peter Wells and published by AVA Books (UK) Ltd.. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifting the lid on the potential of digital video, the author explains, from start to finish, how to make a movie. Fundamentals such as storytelling are explained and there is also an introduction to special effects. Finally, there is a guide to available camcorders and editing systems.
Download or read book Introduction to Digital Video written by John Watkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the essential fundamentals of digital video: from video principles, to conversion, compression, coding, interfaces and output. Written for television professionals needing to apply digital video systems, equipment and techniques to multimedia and /or digital TV applications, as well as for computer system designers, engineers, programmers, or technicians needing to learn how to apply digital video to computer systems and applications. The text is based on the acclaimed industry `bible' The Art of Digital Video, but covers only the essential parts of this larger reference work. It starts right from the basics from what a digital signal is to the how digital video can be applied. John Watkinson is an international consultant in Audio, Video and Data Recording. He is a fellow of the AES, a member of the British Computer Society and Chartered Information Systems Practitioner. He presents lectures, seminars, conference papers and training courses worldwide. He is author of many other Focal press books including MPEG2, Art of Digital Video, Art of Digital Audio, Art of Sound Reporduction, Introduction to Digital Audio, Television Fundamentals and Audio for Television. He is also co-author of the Digital Interface Handbook and a contributor to The Loudspeaker and Headphone Handbook.
Download or read book Digital Video An Introduction to MPEG 2 written by Barry G. Haskell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital Video offers comprehensive coverage of the MPEG-2 audio/visual digital compression standard. The treatment includes the specifics needed to implement an MPEG-2 Decoder, including the syntax and semantics of the coded bitstreams. Since the MPEG-2 Encoders are not specified by the standard, and are actually closely held secrets of many vendors, the book only outlines the fundamentals of encoder design and algorithm optimization.
Download or read book How Video Works written by Diana Weynand and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most used book by professionals in broadcast and post production video departments in the entertainment industry! HOW VIDEO WORKS (formerly Videotape Theory & Operations) offers to the working video professional or student a complete and thorough guide to understanding how the analog and digital broadcast video signal is captured, recorded, transmitted, and broadcast, and the equipment that supports that process. Written in an easy to understand style, this book has been a bible for professionals in the video world since 1985. Update your library with this new version of an industry standard. HOW VIDEO WORKS will give you: * New digital technologies including hi-definition, compression and encoding. * A hands-on approach to learning about video recording, transmission, and playback. * Complete glossary of terms covering both analog and digital video. * Clear and easy to understand explanations-perfect for the new technician or non-tech creative professional. Contents: * Overview/Introduction * Electronic Photography * Scanning * Synchronizing the Signal * Transmitting the Signal * Color Video * Color Monitor Setup * Analog Waveform Monitors * Analog Vectorscopes * The Encoded Signal * Digital Theory * Digital Television Standards * High Definition Video * Digital Scopes * Compression * Magnetic Media * Optical Media * TimeCode * Audio For Video * Operations Overview * Test Signals & Media Problems Diana Weynand is an award-winning producer, director, editor, and co-founder of Weynand Training International (www.weynand.com), who has led the way in training on emerging technologies for the entertainment industry since 1981. She spent time as a videotape operator and online editor for ABC, and as Supervising Editor for the Barbara Walters Specials. She has been a columnist for numerous trade magazines and written several books on Final Cut Pro. She currently writes a monthly column on Hi-Definition for the entertainment news magazine, "Below The Line." Marcus Weise has over thirty-five years experience in the television industry. As an expert in the new digital technology, he has operated in both production and post production as an Associate Director, Online Editor and a Technical Consultant. He designed and oversaw the construction and eventually the operation of worldwide cable television facilities for TV Guide in Hollywood. Among his many credits as a Hi-Definition online editor are CSI and CSI Miami.
Download or read book Introduction to Video Production written by Ronald Compesi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear, non-technical manner, Introduction to Video Production focuses on the fundamental principles of video production and the technologies used in production. This book discusses video aesthetics, technologies, and production practice in a clear and concise manner. It also emphasizes the importance of teamwork and planning in the production process. Chapters are clearly organized and heavily illustrated, with key terms identified in boldface. With Introduction to Video Production, readers will learn not only how the technology works, but how to work with the technology and with each other.
Download or read book Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology written by Walter Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-03-24 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology – A Practical Engineering Guide" deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards such as MPEG, DVB, DVD, DAB, ATSC, T-DMB, DMB-T, DRM and ISDB-T. The book provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition it contains chapters on the basics of technologies such as analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains. The attention in the respective field under discussion is focussed on aspects of measuring techniques and of measuring practice, in each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. This book is directed primarily at the specialist working in the field, on transmitters and transmission equipment, network planning, studio technology, playout centers and multiplex center technology and in the development departments for entertainment electronics or TV test engineering. Since the intire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either. The third edition of this well established reference work includes the new formats MPEG-4 und IPTV, and it already gives an outlook to the newest standards like DVB-SH and DVB-T2.
Download or read book An Introduction to Digital Audio written by John Watkinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2002 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Digital Video Processing written by A. Murat Tekalp and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2015-06-06 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, thousands of engineering students and professionals relied on Digital Video Processing as the definitive, in-depth guide to digital image and video processing technology. Now, Dr. A. Murat Tekalp has completely revamped the first edition to reflect today’s technologies, techniques, algorithms, and trends. Digital Video Processing, Second Edition, reflects important advances in image processing, computer vision, and video compression, including new applications such as digital cinema, ultra-high-resolution video, and 3D video. This edition offers rigorous, comprehensive, balanced, and quantitative coverage of image filtering, motion estimation, tracking, segmentation, video filtering, and compression. Now organized and presented as a true tutorial, it contains updated problem sets and new MATLAB projects in every chapter. Coverage includes Multi-dimensional signals/systems: transforms, sampling, and lattice conversion Digital images and video: human vision, analog/digital video, and video quality Image filtering: gradient estimation, edge detection, scaling, multi-resolution representations, enhancement, de-noising, and restoration Motion estimation: image formation; motion models; differential, matching, optimization, and transform-domain methods; and 3D motion and shape estimation Video segmentation: color and motion segmentation, change detection, shot boundary detection, video matting, video tracking, and performance evaluation Multi-frame filtering: motion-compensated filtering, multi-frame standards conversion, multi-frame noise filtering, restoration, and super-resolution Image compression: lossless compression, JPEG, wavelets, and JPEG2000 Video compression: early standards, ITU-T H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HEVC, Scalable Video Compression, and stereo/multi-view approaches
Download or read book Digital Video Quality written by Stefan Winkler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual quality assessment is an interdisciplinary topic that links image/video processing, psychology and physiology. Many engineers are familiar with the image/video processing; transmission networks side of things but not with the perceptual aspects pertaining to quality. Digital Video Quality first introduces the concepts of human vision and visual quality. Based on these, specific video quality metrics are developed and their design is presented. These metrics are then evaluated and used in a number of applications, including image/video compression, transmission and watermarking. Introduces the concepts of human vision and vision quality. Presents the design and development of specific video quality metrics. Evaluates video quality metrics in the context of image/video compression, transmission and watermarking. Presents tools developed for the analysis of video quality
Download or read book DTV written by Jerry C. Whitaker and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electronics industry is on the verge of the most dramatic advance in imaging technology since the color television. Under the banner of High Definition Television, telecommunications, broadcasting, & computer are being merged into a single digital imaging system with a wide range of exciting new applications. This timely book brings the digital "Grand Alliance," & its role as the HDTV standard, into sharp focus. One of the best respected names in the field provides an engrossing account of the technology-including key aspects of video compression-& details late breaking developments in the effort to bring this emerging technology to market.
Download or read book Digital Video and Audio Broadcasting Technology written by Walter Fischer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-09 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text for any technician in broadcasting deals with all the most important digital television, sound radio and multimedia standards. The book provides an in-depth look at these subjects in terms of practical experience. In addition it contains chapters on the basics of technologies such as analog television, digital modulation, COFDM or mathematical transformations between time and frequency domains. The attention in each respective field under discussion is focused on aspects of measuring techniques and of measuring practice, in each case consolidating the knowledge imparted with numerous practical examples. Since the entire field of electrical communications technology is traversed in a wide arc, those who are students in this field are not excluded either.
Download or read book Digital Filmmaking written by Peter Shaner and published by Mercury Learning and Information. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book in the series is designed to introduce the techniques used in digital filmmaking. It is aimed at anyone who has an interest in telling stories with pictures and sound and won't assume any familiarity with equipment or concepts. In addition to the basics of shooting and editing, different story forms will be introduced from documentary and live events through fictional narratives. Each of the topics will be covered in enough depth to allow someone with a camera and a computer to begin creating visual projects they can be proud of. This book is applicable to all novices or as an introduction to digital filmmaking classes. The book should also be a gateway to the series of books designed to impart greater sophistication in all areas of filmmaking.
Download or read book Introduction to Video Production written by Ronald J. Compesi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a clear, non-technical manner, Introduction to Video Production focuses on the fundamental principles and aesthetics of video production and the technologies used in both studio and field environments. Ronald J. Compesi and Jaime S. Gomez cover each aspect of the process step by step, from preproduction to lighting, sound, directing, editing, graphics, and distribution. Taking into account the changes in workflow and production planning and distribution brought on by the advent of digital media, this second edition has been updated throughout to account for the increasing popularity of DSLR cameras, online distribution, the rise of portable cameras and mobile video, and much more. Key features include: a thorough overview of video production in studio and field environments without being overly technical, allowing students to get the "big picture" of production; coverage of new digital production, recording, and editing technologies; over 300 photos and line art illustrating aesthetic elements, technical issues, and production planning; key words identified in boldface throughout the text and reinforced in a comprehensive glossary of terms.
Download or read book Digital Filmmaking for Beginners A Practical Guide to Video Production written by Michael K. Hughes and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-06-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover how to create professional-quality digital videos--faster than you can say "lights, camera, action" Digital video cameras are everywhere--even on our phones! But cameras don't make great movies; filmmakers do. Written by a seasoned pro with 40 years of teaching experience, Digital Filmmaking for Beginners is your fully illustrated introduction to all technical aspects of digital filmmaking. Featuring clear, concise instruction--accompanied by online video demonstrations--this comprehensive guide covers the best methods and techniques to plan and script projects; set up lighting, microphones, and cameras; and shoot, edit, and apply postproduction effects and other finishing touches. Whether you're an amateur film buff or an aspiring professional videographer, this is the source for everything you need to bring your ideas from the page to the screen. Coverage includes: Best practices to ensure smooth operations in all project phases, from planning to post production Recommendations on selecting and purchasing cameras, filming gear, and the best editing and effects software to fit your budget and needs Advice on planning, shooting, editing, and other technical elements Fully illustrated tutorials on composition, framing, and other visual storytelling techniques Exclusive bonus online content, including finished video demonstrations of key filmmaking techniques and informative articles
