Chapter 19
Film and video sound
This chapter offers a compact account of the principles involved in video sound recording and editing, relating this to current television and film industry practice. Note here that as a medium, ‘film’ now refers more to the distribution system that still uses it, rather than production, in which the use of film is increasingly replaced by video cameras and digital editing. Sound, in either case, is generally recorded and edited digitally. This chapter deals mainly with picture and sound that originates on location (including what is still called a film set); Chapter 20 deals more with sound in the television studio.
Video cameras that are equipped to record picture can always record audio alongside it. ...
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