Wednesday, April 29, 2009

intro to video?

1. The video format we will be using this term is Digital Video, what is the other, older format that was used recently.
The older form of digital videos were analog.

2. Describe the difference between the two formats.
The difference between the two forms, digital and analog is that the digital signal was precise points and analog signal is made up of varied waveforms.

3. What are some advantages of digital video?
Some advantages of digital vidoe is that to edit something on it you don't have to start from scratch like older forms of digital video.

4. What is meant by frame rate in video?
Frame rate is the number of picture being shown per second.

5. Do all applications use the same frame rate, explain your answer?
No, all applications don't as the number of pictures per second in a frame varies depending on the place/ country in which u watch the show/movie?

6. What is meant by resolution, how is it measured.
Resolution is represented by the number of individual picture pixels that are on the screen,
and is expressed as a number of horizontal pixels times the number of vertical pixels. The higher resolution the better quality an image is.

7. What is the colour system called RGB?
Red, green and blue components of a colour.

8. Explain the video standards PAL, NTSC, and SECAM, what are the main differences between them.
PAL, is used to format decks and cameras, NTSC, is one format to record vidoes on VHS? and SECAM, isThe main difference between these three video standards is a format only used for broadcasting. that they are used in different countries.

9. Which standard do we use in Australia?
The standard we use in Australia is PAL.

10. For what type of video camera would you need to have a Video Capture Card in your computer to download video?
an analog video camera?

11. Why don’t we need a video capture card for the video we will be doing at school?
this may be because at school we will be using digital video cameras

12. What is an IEEE 1394 port?
It is a port in which you connect an IEEE 1394 connector to a DV camera to a computer IEEE 1394 port.

13. Why do digital video cameras use video compression?
Because when a video is digitized it will be compressed, it is also because the vidoe size may be to big and needs to be compressed to make smaller and take up less room?

14. Describe what a codec is?
Codec is the the compression and decompression of video is handled by something.

15. What is meant by generation loss, where does it happen?
it

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

graphic mania... i like graphics....they're so graphical..graphalicious?

**Please speak/read in your head in a weird German/french/Italian/checkoslavakian accent, with a little detective person things dancing around a fire.**
now first and most importantly the awesome graphic tablet costs, well the cheapest one is $129 and the most expensive is at $3418. not exactly the most sufficient price but it must be worth it. ok on with the questions.. i chose you.....expensive tablet, imagine that, talking to your friends saying...omg i just bought the most expensive tablet everrr! Bwahaha Mwahaha Mwahaha... darn, over did it again. why would you buy a tablet in the first place?
....on with the expenvieness...this tablet is wireless, it is also adjustable to you convenience, as it can be rotated, inclined and even removed to go onto your lap. convenient itssn't it? why i think so, yes, yes indoubleated indeed? its got 1024 pressure levels, is that a good think? the max resolution is 1600 x 1200. whatever that means...oh it means....the amount of pixles per page.
great im done..i think?

image file types....yeah, right.

GIF files : so basically gif files are normally used for smaller animations, as the maximum colours you can have is 256. i think that's right? yes, yes I do.

JPEG files : used for digital photography, the maximum colour would be 42949... pretty much the same as a gif. copy cat much?

MPED files : mainly used for digital video's, to use this, need lots of free memory, and maybe a fast computer too? the Standard colour - 1100kbps, it saves space my deleting the repetition of frames.

ANIMATED GIF files : used to make series of images/frames, It is larger than a normal gif, common size is 69x60 pixels, the bigger the picture, the bigger the file. and much better too.

SHOCKWAVE files : mainly used for multimedia, they are vector based, which means that is doesn't save as individual pixels, it saves as a picture. you can find this when you are loading games on the net!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

i really did try.

ok. im sorry Mr Lennon, i've tried almost everything and i am currently trying to get Sabine to upload from her photobucket account and i will put it on my blogspot but so far nothing is happening. just incase nothing works here is the site it's already on:
http://srv0204-01.sjc3.imeem.com/g/p/ffdf934e0be8383ccd16d781e9429dfb_raw.gif