Knowledge Zone
Moviola's "Knowledge Zone" consolidates and simplifies information that is often difficult to find or is found scattered across the Internet. We hope this information will help you when making comparisons of options, workflows and formats as well as in understanding other essential topics related to production and post production.
Video Formats, Compression and More
To lay a foundation for other topics in the "Knowledge Zone," the first section of articles is titled "SD and HD Basics." These articles cover the fundamentals as they relate to any video format, whether analog or digital, standard definition (SD) or high definition (HD). This is a good primer for those unfamiliar with some of these core concepts.
SD and HD Basics
- Interlace and Progressive Scanning
- Compression Fundamentals
- Bit Rates
- Pulldown
- Offline and Online Editing
- Native Editing
- Aspect Ratio
In the following sections of the Knowledge Zone, we'll cover more detailed information about SD and HD video, and emerging digital formats with resolutions above HD, as well as aspects about their use in post production.
Resolution and Quality
The next two articles cover information about SD video standards and recommendations, both analog and digital.
SD Video Standards and Information
The next series of articles offers a primer in several different and often confusing aspects of working in the world of HD.
HD Standards and Information
- Understanding HD
- HD Frame Rates and NTSC Compatibility
- HD Frame Rate Confusion
- Aspect Ratio Confusion in HD
The next series of articles offers an insight to the variety of video "formats". Some of these formats exist purely inside a computer editing system, some are videotape formats, and there are also formats that go above and beyond the resolution of SD or HD resolution.
Video Formats
- Compression Formats for Video and Graphics
- SD digital videotape formats
- HD digital videotape formats
- Tapeless Formats (currently P2 and XDCAM)
- Beyond HD (2K and 4K)
This next series of articles focuses on video storage for post production. We'll cover how to determine what your storage needs are depending on the nature of the video you are working with. This is general, and each editing system like Final Cut Pro and Avid do handle things a bit differently, but the overall concepts are the same.
Media Storage For Post Production
- Comparing Bit Rates (for video storage)
- Storage Requirements (for video formats)
- Types of Storage
Organizations And Guilds
From the Motion Picture Editors Guild to Film Independent, here you'll find links to various guilds, unions and organizations in the world of content creation. read more »
