21  The future

You, the new recruit to the video industry, are the future. It is you that will be the first to experience the massive explosion in new technology that is now beginning. Undoubtedly the future is digital. Digital technology should be viewed as two separate, and distinctly different, areas.

One area is the digital revolution in tiny chips that are, in effect, small computers. These already control image stabilization, extended zoom, exposure and light balance in modern cameras.

Bigger chips control video and sound capture, allowing the pictures and sounds to be manipulated within the digital domain of the computer. Digital video effects can be created by programmes that are specifically written to be incorporated in vision mixers ...

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