Basic Video Camera Hints

Here are some basic video camera handling hints, that are guaranteed to improve any video production whether big budget or home movie. 1. Good focus, recent video cameras have better focus control than 8 mm film cameras ever did, but poor light and objects moving into the foreground can still conspire to ruin focus. Which…

Video Noise Restoration

Here are some short clips I transferred from Emma the movie originally taken from a VHS video tape demonstrating video noise restoration. On the left side is the original video as transferred from the VHS tape. On the right hand side of the screen a special process  was applied in the computer to reduce video…

Traditional Broadcast vs Internet TV

Technical news sources have been abuzz for some time about developments in Broadcast vs Internet TV. Streaming Video For some time we have had access to streaming video such as YouTube or various web sites providing catch up viewing for old episodes of broadcast TV shows etc..  To demonstrate how things have changed, past US…

A Wedding Video Almost Lost

A while back I completed a most interesting project recovering a wedding video. Nothing unusual so far, but this was 36 years old on 1/2″ reel to reel tape in black and white and was almost lost, and before too long would certainly have been. This video format was one of the first small systems….

Video Formats

Some of the more significant steps in video recording… Reel tape recording The first video tape recorder was released by Ampex in 1956 using 2 inch wide tape. It used a form of recording called quadrature scanning, meaning that a rotating drum with 4 heads scanned at right angles across the width of the moving…