Chapter 5: Fundamental Concepts in Video

The Official ATSC Home Page

The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc., is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries.

HDTV

High Definition (HD) television describes a television system providing an image resolution of substantially higher resolution than the previous generation of technologies.

4K Resolution

4K resolution refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels. Digital television and digital cinematography commonly use several different 4K resolutions.

8K Resolution

8K resolution refers to an image or display resolution with a width of approximately 8,000 pixels.

The FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Page

The Federal Communications Commission regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.

Choosing the Right Video Format

Because video files can be large, programs called codecs were developed to make them easier to store and share. Codecs encode data to compress it for storing and sharing. Then they decode that data to decompress it for viewing and editing.

Introduction to Video Editing

The human brain constantly seeks narrative. If you create a montage (a sequence of different images), your audience will infer a relationship between the images. In the 1910s, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov demonstrated this phenomenon by ...

Video File Format

An overview of video file formats.