Time Code & Your Editing Sequence Timeline

  The ”democratization of video” marches on, and I am right in step.  Every month I receive more and more orders from clients who send me completed programs that they have edited on their own systems — often inside a powerful laptop.  I usually receive either an edited master videotape or a portable hard drive.  (check out my blog of indies, miniDVs and portable hard drives: http://tinyurl.com/6agsm4)  Taking [...]

Mindy Mail 10 – Spanish

Mindy Mail 10

Standards Conversion & the Alchemist Ph.C

You may be familiar with the terms NTSC (National Television System Committee), PAL (Phase Alternating Line) and SECAM (“Séquentiel couleur à mémoire,” which is French for “Sequential Color with Memory.”)  They are the three main broadcast standards in the world, and the broadcast telelvision signals of a particular country are one of the three (some countries do have [...]