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Wallace JacksonDigital Video Editing Fundamentals10.1007/978-1-4842-1866-2_7

7. Capturing Digital Video: Digital Camera Concepts

Wallace Jackson
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Lompoc, California, USA
 
Now that you have an understanding of the fundamental concepts, terms, and principles of new media elements that comprise video projects, let’s take a look at capturing raw video content with a digital camera, as well as digital camera concepts. We will be looking at how the digital camera digitizes imagery, formats it uses to store frames on-camera (or in-camera), and related topics such as high-speed Firewire and USB3 data transfer.
We will look at how a digital camera captures pixels and their color data, using CCDs, as well as camera characteristics ...

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