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| Three Point lighting consists of |
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| Key Light, Fill Light, Rim Light |
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| Which light is the main light in three point lighting |
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| Name two other names for backlight |
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| hair light, rim light, halo effect |
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| What are the two types of light |
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| Diffused Light and Directional |
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| What are the 5 main parts of the camera |
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| camera body, camera lens, viewfinder, ccd and beam splitter |
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| What are the five points of the camera chain |
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| 1. Camera Head 2. Camera Body 3. VTR-Video Tape Recorder 4. CCU 5. Coaxial Cable |
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| CCU- allows you to adjust the camera controls from a remote location |
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| Audio mixing board has audio input channels: what does it allow to input |
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| What does the audio mixing board allow the operator to control |
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| the quality of the audio signal (32 channels in class) |
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| Will record sound and also do playback. |
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| Moves stuff/ controls dollies |
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| Audio/Microphone Connection |
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| Any electronic device used to increase the level or power of signals applied to it. |
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| Automated feature where-by the camera focuses on what senses to be the target object |
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| To preset a zoom lens to remain in focus throughout the zoom |
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| The crowding effect achieved by a narrow-angle lens wherein object proportions and relative distances seem shallower |
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| The area in which all objects, located at different distances from the camera, appear in focus. Depth of field depends on the focal legnth of the lens, its f-stop, and the distance between the object and the cameras. |
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| Simulated by cropping the center portion of an image and electronically enlarging it. Digital zooms lose picture resolution. |
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| A lens that can be programmed through a built-in computer to repeat zoom positions and their corresponding focus settings. |
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| A lens that permits a relativley great amount of light to pass through at its maximum aperture (relatively low f-stop) number at its lowest setting). Can be used in low-light conditions. |
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| The portion of the scene visible through a particular lens; its vista. Expressed in symbols, such as C-U for close up. |
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| The distance from the optical center of the lens to the front surface of the camera's imaging device at which the image appears in focus with the lens set at infinity. Focal legnths are measured in millimeters or inches. |
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| A picture is seen in focus when it appears sharp and clear on-screen (technically, the point at which the light rays refracted by the lens coverage. |
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| The calibration on the lens indicating the aperture or iris opening (and therefore the amount of light transmitted through the lens). The smaller the f-stop number, the larger the aperture. |
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| Adjustable lens-opening that controls the amount of light passing through the lens. Also called the diaphram and lens diaphram. |
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| A lens setting that allows it to be focused at very close distances from an object. Used for close -ups and of small objects. |
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| Minimum Object Distance (MOD) |
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| How close the camera can get to an object and still focus on it |
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| Gives a close-up view of an event relativley far away or vice versa |
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| A lens or zoom lens position with a focal legnth that approximates the spatial relationship of normal vision. |
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| To change focus from one obrject or person closer to the camera to one farther away or vice versa |
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| An optical attachment to the zoom lens that extends its focal legnth. also called extender. |
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| Emphasizing an object in a shallow delth of field through focus while keeping its foreground and or background out of focus. |
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| Zoom control tht activates motor-driven machenisms |
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| A lens that permits a relativley small amount of light to pass through at its maximum aperture (relativley high f-stop at its lowest setting) can be used only in well lit areas. |
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| A short focal legnth lens that provides broad vista of a scene |
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| An imaginary line representing an extension of the lens from the camera to the horizon-the depth of dimension. |
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| A variable focal legnth lens. It can gradually change from a wide shot to a close-up and vice cersa in one continous move. |
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| The degree to which the focal legnt can be changed from a wide shot to a close up during a zoom. The zoom range is often stated at 20.:1 zool ratio means that the zoom lens can increase its shorts focal legnth 20 times. |
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| to move camera in a slightly curved dolly or truck |
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| The width-to-height proportions of the standard television screen and therefore of all standard television pictures: 4 by 3 for standard tv, 16 X 9 for HDTV |
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| Camera mount whose mechanism holds the camera steady while the operator moves. |
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| tilting the shoulder-mounted or handheld camera sideways |
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| Object or any part of it seen at close range and framed tightly. The close-up can be extreme (ECU) or rather loose (MCU) |
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| Short for psychological closure. mentally filling in spaces of an incomplete picture. |
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| 1. Motion picture camera support that resembles an actual crance in both appearance and operation. 2. To move the boom of the camera crane up or down. |
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| Similar to the over the shoulder shot except that the camera-near person is completely out of the shot |
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| 1. Camera support that enables the camera to move in all horizontal directions. 2. To move the camera toward (dolly in) or away from (dolly out or back) the object. |
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| also called established shot or full shot |
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| The portion of a scene visible through a particular lens; its vista. Expressed in symbols, such as CU for close-up |
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| The space left between the top of the head and the upper screen image. |
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| Similar to a camera crane. Permits the jib arm operator to raise, lower, and tongue (move sideways) the jib arm while tilting and panning the camera. |
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| The space left infront of a person or an object moving toward the edge of the screen. |
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| Object seen from a medium distance. Covers any framing between a long shot and a close-up. Also called waist shot. |
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| A single pole onto which you can mount a camera. |
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| A device that connects the camera to the tripod or studio pedestal to facilitate smooth pans and tilts. Also called pan-and-tilt-heads. |
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| The space left infront of a person looking or pointing toward the edge of the screen. |
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| Camera looks over a persons should (shoulder and back of the head included in the shot aimed at another person |
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| To turn the camera horizontally |
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| Heavy camera dolly that permits the raising and lowering the camera while on the air. To move the camera up and down via a studio pedestal |
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| A mounting plate used to attach a camcorder and ENG/EFP cameras to the mounting head. |
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| Motor-driven studio pedestal and mounting head. It is guided by a computerized system that can store and execute a great number of camera moves. |
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| Motor-driven studio pedestal and mounting head. It is guided by a computerized system that can store and execute a great number of camera moves. |
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| A camera mounting head for heavy cameras that permits extremely smooth pans and tilts |
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| To point the camera up or down |
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| To move the boom or jib arm with the camera from right to left |
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| A three-legged camera mount. Can be connected to adolly for easy manueverability |
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| To move the camera laterally by means of a mobile camera mount. Also, called Track |
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| An imaginary line representing an extension of the lens from the camera to the horizon-the depth dimension |
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| To change the lens gradually to narrow-angle position or to a wide-angle position while the camera remains stationary |
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| Associate or assistant director, assists director in all phases |
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| In large motion pictures dp is in charge of lighthing. In a smaller motion picture the dp will operate the camera. In television it is the camera. |
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| A list that contains all technical facilities needed for a specific production |
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| A list that contains all technical facilities needed for a specific production |
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| an especially vivid mental image-visual or aural-during script analysis that determines the subsequent visualizations and sequencing |
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| All content elements, production elements, and people needed to generate the defined process message. |
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| The message actually received by the viewer in the process of watching a television program. |
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| The calendar that shows the preproduction, production, and postproduction dates and who is doing what when where. |
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| The control and the structuring of a shot series during editing, |
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| A series of sketches of the key visualization points of an event, with the corresponding audio formation |
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| A breakdown of time blocks for various activities on the actual prodution day, such as crew call, setup and camera rehearsal |
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| Mentally converting a scene into a number of key video images and sounds, not necessarily in sequence |
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| full rehearsal with camera and other pieces of production equipment. OFten identical to the dress rehearsal. |
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| Full rehearsal with all equiptment operating with talent in full dress. THe dress rehearsal is often video recorded. Often call camera rehearsal except that the camera rehearsal doesn't require full dress for talent. |
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| Rehearsal without equipment, during which the basic actions of the talent are worked out. Also called blocking rehearsal |
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| Short for intercommunication system. Used by all production and technical personnel. The most widely used system has telephone headsets to faciliate voice communications on several wired or wireless channels,. Includes other systems, such as I.F.B. and cell phones |
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| simulataneous coordination of tow or more cameras for instantaneous editing. |
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| the duration of a program or program segment |
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| the time at which a program starts and ends. |
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| Directing Method for a single camera. For digital cinema it may mean moving from an establishing long shot to medium shots, then close-ups of the same action. Also called film style shooting. |
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| Orientation session with the production crew (technical walk-through_ and the talent (talent-walk-through) wherein the director walks through the set and explains the key actions. |
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| the sound portion of television and its production. technicallt, the electronic reproduction of audible sound |
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| heart-shaped pickup pattern of a unidirectional microphone |
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| a mic whose diaphram consists of a condenser plate that vibrates with the sound pressure against another fixed condenser plate called a back plate |
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| recording technique wherein the sound signals of electric instruments are fed directly to the mixing console without the use of speaker and microphone |
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| a mic whose sound pickup device consists of a diaphhram that is attched to a moveable coil, creates electric current when vibrates |
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| a suspension device for a microphone. mic attached to a pole and held over the scene for brief periods |
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| measure of a microphones ability to hear equally well over its entire frequency range. Is also used a measure for devices that record and play back a specific frequency range. |
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| The return of the total or partial audio mix to the talent through headsets or I.F.B channels. Also, called a cue-send |
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| Measure of the range of frequencies a microphone can hear and reproduce. |
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| Small but good quality omni- or uni directional mic attached to padded earphones... |
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| type of resistance to signal flow. Important especially in matching high- or low-impedance microphone with high- or low-impedance recorders |
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| the power for preamplification in a condenser microphone, supplied by audio console rather than battery |
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| the territory around the microphone which the mic can hear "equally well" that has optimal sound pickup |
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| the two-dimensional representation of a microphone pickup pattern |
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| A mic whose sound pickup device consists of a ribbon that vibrates with the sound pressures within a magnetic field |
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| a highly directional mic for picking up sounds from a relativley great distance. |
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| mic consisting of a base upon which several heads can be attached that change its sound pickup characteristic |
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| Pickup pattern in which the microphone can pick up sounds better from the front than the sides or back. |
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| A system that transmits audio signals over the air ratheer than trhrough mic cables. Attached to a transmitter. |
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| Compact internal optical system of prisms within a television camera that seperates white light into the three primary colors; red, green and blue...also called prism block |
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| the color attribute that determines how dark or light a color appears on the monochrome television screen or how much light the color reflects. Also, called lighthness and or luminence |
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| A portable camera with the video recorder or some other recording device built into it to form a single unit |
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| Equiptment, seperate from the camera head, tht contains various video controls, including color fidelity, color balance, contrast, and brightness. The CCU enables the video operator operator to adjust the camera picture during a show |
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| Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) |
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| The imaging sensor in a television camera. It consists of horizontal and vertical rows of tiny image-sensing elements, called pixels, that translate the optical (light) image into an electrical charge that eventually bc the video signal |
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| A camera imaging sensor similar to a CCD but which operates on a different technology. It translates light into an electronic video charge that eventually becomes the video signal. |
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| The difference bw the brightest and the darkest portions in the picture (often measured by reflected light in foot-candles). |
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| A high-definition television camera that has a native frame rate of 24 frames per second and a variable frame rate for slow and accelerated motion. Most digital cameras use high-quality CCDs or CMOS sensors, state-of-the-art lenses, and high-def viewfinders |
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| High-Quality poratble,shoulder mounted field production camera that must be connected to an external video recorder |
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| High-Quality portable field production camera with the recording device built-in. |
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| A recording system that produces images of the same resolution as high-definition television with equiptment that is similar to standard digital video camcorders. The video signals are much more compressed than those of HDTV, however, which results in lower overall video quality. |
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| High-Definition Television Cameras |
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| Video camera that delivers pictures of superior resolution, color fidelity, and light-and-dark contrast; uses high-quality imaging sensors and lenses |
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| One of the three basic color attributesl hue is the color itself-red, green, yellow and so on |
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| The imaging element in a television camera. Its sensor (CCD or CMOS) transduces light into electric energy that becomes the video signal. Also called camera pickup device, chip and sensor |
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| Short for picture element. A single imaging element that can be identified by a computer. The more pixels per picture area, the higher the picture quality. The light-sensitive elements on a CCD that contain a charge. |
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| The measurement of picture detail, expressed in the number of pixels per scanning line and the number of visible scanning lines. Resolution is influenced by the imaging device, the lens, and the television set that shows the camera picture. Often used synonymously with definition. |
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| The color attribute that describes a color's richness or stregnth. |
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| The CCD or CMOS imaging device in a video camera. |
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| Standard Television (STV) |
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| A system based on on the NTSC scanning system of 535 (480 visible) interlaced lines |
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| High-Quality Camera with a large zoon-lens that cannot be manuevered properly without the aid of a pedestal or some other camera mount |
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| Part of the Camera Chain; produces an electronic synchronization signal |
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| The adjustments of color circuits in the camera to produce a white color in lighting of various color temperatures (relative reddishness or bluishness of white light) |
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| Three main parts of the computer |
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| lens, camera and the viewfinder |
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| setup and control of a studio camera |
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| provides a general synchroniazation pulse called a house sync-keeps everything sychronized |
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| tricks the cameras sensors into believing that they are getting more light than they actually recieve from the lens |
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| the faster the object moves the faster the shutter should be, but you need more light with a fast shutter |
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| Y Channe, us responsible for the brightness info of the picture |
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| C channel; transports all of the hue attributes |
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