Shooting on Videotape

For some reason, people often get confused about the necessity for continuity when recording onto videotape. The past legacy of videotape being thought of solely in terms of a multi-camera studio-based facility remains.

But videotape has, over the past fifteen years, changed enormously. The advent of videotape in cassette form has made a far more mobile and flexible resource than the studio or outside broadcast operation to which it was previously confined. Cameras have become smaller and lighter and receptive to far lower levels of lighting than film with little sacrifice of quality. Sony refer to their Digital Betacam camcorder as an instrument of Digital Cinematography. The greatest changes have taken place in the area ...

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