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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 17:43:32 GMT -5
lol, nice! I love old video formats.
Yeah, professional quality beta is extreme - it's still used today in a lot of broadcast applications. At NAULive, we export video from the computer using DV tapes, then dub it over to beta tapes for playout to the air during the show. (for things like packages, VOs and SOTs.
VHS stores all the video information for luminance and chrominance in one signal, S-VHS stores Luminance and Chrominance separately, and professional beta stores the Luminance, the difference from Lum to Red, and the differende from Lum to Green (I think that's what it was) all separately, giving everything a much higher usable resolution and better overall quality.
Believe it or not, VHS only stores about 220-240 lines of picture information - SVHS only stores about 400-450, Betacam SP stores about 500. NTSC standard is 480, digital NTSC is usually 486, and the signal that comes in over the air or via cable TV is actually about 330 lines.
I'm a havin' a geekout!
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 18:06:25 GMT -5
@_@ Yeah, Cory, I hate to admit it, but you ARE having a geekout. I think I got the gist of what you are saying (that VHS merges things that probably shouldn't be merged, and that it's way lower res), but I'm also sure something was lost in the translation.
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 18:08:33 GMT -5
It's not that they shouldn't be merged, It's just that it's a lower end, and definitely older, format that's not exactly "up to par" with something that's editing quality, or that's broadcastable.
Not that VHS tapes don't get broadcast - just not here at NAULive. But with AFHV or whatever that show is called - you can usually see a very distinct difference between the footage that's sent in, and the host.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 18:14:32 GMT -5
Mm, sort of like Chanel 12 in the valley where the anchors in studio are filmed in HD but everything in the field is still done with the older equipment.
Oh, and I just realized that I do understand that VHS isn't really broadcastable--I had to watch a VHS sent over Cline for my film class, and, since it was filmed so darkly in the first place, you could hardly see anything.
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 18:17:17 GMT -5
Nice! Of course, I don't think Cline is exactly the place to judge when you're thinking about broadcast in general - not that we at NAULive have anything remarkably better, I suppose.
Hmm, Channel12 does that? I suppose it's reasonable, HD field equipment is expensive, largely proprietary, and the data's so much more difficult to work with than current standard def stuff - whereas you really wouldn't have to feed a studio feed through a computer, you do need to edit packages, SOTs and VOs.
(geekout continues!)
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 18:39:52 GMT -5
Well, I'd also viewed some stuff broadcast off DVDs, and there was a definite quality difference. (For the rest of you, Cline is the university library, and they'll broadcast movies and such locally by request.)
...So long as what you're saying makes sense to you...
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 19:02:53 GMT -5
I'm going to interrupt the techo-speak with musical news!
WOOT!!! I got the timpani today! I actually ended up getting three! WOOT!!! More noise power! They have some cosmetic issues, like major dents and peeling paint, but they sound just fine! WOOT!!!
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 19:11:01 GMT -5
So we are now creating music instead of recommending music from our collections? Fun!
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 19:17:53 GMT -5
Totally awesome! Make it rain with them, or snow even. Where are you going to stick these instruments? If you're running out of room tape some behind the microwave. Or something.
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 19:22:47 GMT -5
oooh - weather controlling instruments?! Awesome!
The character in my upcoming weather-battling webcomic will have to play the drums or guitar or something, while he's battling the weather.
"and he delivered the guitar lick of death to the lightning!"
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 20:03:49 GMT -5
Hmm I would rather not face a character with powers like that, even only if he/she uses it to fight weather. The weather attacking.
Make it guitar for sure, that seems much more exciting then drums. Drums however are more epic.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 20:48:23 GMT -5
It depends on the kind of drum as to whether its exciting or not. Marching band drums are dull. Timpani actually have different pitches. There's this really cool thing where you hit it, and press the pedal. You get an awesome "Boing" effect. I'll have to figure out a way of recording that. They're over in the Church, up in the choir loft. That's probably where they'll stay permanently. My house is tiny. I don' t know where I'd put them.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 20:55:41 GMT -5
Maybe you should send one of your recordings our way some time, I'd love to hear one! "boing!"
Ohhhh, you could try gluing them under the refigerator, and one someone on the roof. While the other is nailed to the window. Ignore those.
But it must be cool to play those, even if they're all the way at the church.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 21:24:56 GMT -5
The fun thing is my house is in the parking lot of the church. Like the back corner of the building is maybe 60 feet away. I've been saving a ton on gas!
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 22:24:48 GMT -5
Hmm... maybe my comic will have a whole weather-battling band. A guitar, a bass, a vocalist (maybe?) - any other band members for the weather-battling comic? As far as living close to work - I'd be all for it. Especially a workplace you could store random things if you wnted to. "Oh yeah, this is the drum set I got off eBay, I'm just going to put it somewhere."
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