by Ed Calverley | Aug 20, 2019 | Video
The VFX artist and video debunking expert, Captian Disillusion has created a handful of short videos covering the basics of television technology. CD / Aspect Ratio Captain Disillusion – 3m 11s CD / Frame Rate Captain Disillusion – 4m 12s CD / Resolution...
by Ed Calverley | Aug 20, 2019 | History
Matt Parker explaines why the NTSC world got stuck using a frame rate of 29.97Hz instead of 3ohz. It was all due to the introduction of compatible colour and needing to avoid interference. The PAL system used outside of North America was based on a whole new 625-line...
by Ed Calverley | Aug 20, 2019 | History
The history of analogue colour TV is somethign every broadcast engineer should have an appreciation of because so much of the technology we deal with today has been designed to work around technical constraints which can be traced back to analogue systems. These...
by Ed Calverley | Aug 20, 2019 | Cameras
When a camera captures fast movement it can result in strange artefacts becoming visible due to the exact time at which the camera’s sensor samples the light coming through its lens. There are two main ways in which a camera samples the scene: Rolling Shutter...
by Ed Calverley | Aug 20, 2019 | History, VFX & CGI
Captain Disillusion is the alter ego of a very talented visual effects artist and film maker Alan Melikdjanian (read more on Wikipedia). He has gained a huge YouTube following by debunking fake viral videos through meticulous analysis, spotting all the tell tales...