Category: Video Conversion

Video Conversion, Video Editing

Using Video to Boost Your Website in 2012

  If you’ve decided that one of your major New Year’s resolutions for 2012 was to grow your business, consider using video on your website. Even the smallest businesses can benefit from online video marketing. Video marketing campaigns have proved extremely successful for large and small businesses alike, no matter what you are selling. You can use video to introduce a new product, highlight the benefits of your service, showcase customer testimonials, or provide information on how to use your product. Videos can also be shared a number of ways, making them an accessible form of communication for your clients […]

Video Conversion, Video Production

HDCAM vs. XDCAM

HDCAM  HDCAM is a version of Betacam. Digital Betacam, or Digi Beta, is a video digital recording format in standard definition, while the HDCAM is the high definition version of it. HDCAM was introduced in 1997, and it was the first HD broadcast format at the time. HDCAM SR (Superior Resolution) is a newer version of HDCAM, introduced in 2003. The HDCAM SR is more commonly used in HD television news today as a master recording format, although television shows across the world still use HDCAM for shooting. Like other Betacam tapes, the HDCAM is colour coded – they are […]

Video Conversion, Video Production

Broadcast Tapes & formats (from http://en.wikipedia.org)

Betacam The original Betacam format was launched on August 7, 1982. It is an analog component video format, storing the luminance, “Y”, in one track and the chrominance, on another as alternating segments of the R-Y and B-Y components performing Compressed Time Division Multiplex, or CTDM.[1] This splitting of channels allows true broadcast quality recording with 300 lines of horizontal luminance resolution and 120 lines chrominance resolution (versus ≈30 for Betamax/VHS), on a relatively inexpensive cassette based format. The original Betacam format records on cassettes loaded with oxide-formulated tape, which are theoretically the same as used by its consumer market-oriented […]

Video Conversion

Is it time to copy your VHS tapes over to DVD?

There’s really no sense in holding onto old video tapes, because they will degrade over time – slowly on the shelf, and much quicker if they are played frequently. If you’ve got irreplaceable memories like weddings, births or holidays on video tape, it’s a good idea to transfer them over to DVD as soon as possible. If they’ve degraded a little bit, it may still be possible to salvage them and still have them transferred, but it’s best to do it right away to avoid the tapes getting too far damaged. Otherwise, they may lose their original quality. Is copying […]