Editing: How Star Wars was saved in the edit

Editing: How Star Wars was saved in the edit

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Vision

How Star Wars was saved in the edit RocketJump – 18m 24s  (Dec 2017) A video essay exploring how Star Wars’ editors recut and rearranged Star Wars: A New Hope to create the cinematic classic it became. Check out more essays at...
Analogue TV / Development of Video

Analogue TV / Development of Video

by | Aug 20, 2019 | History

The first video by Veritasium tells the history of how film was a core component of Television until 1956 with the invention of the first practical video recorder by Ampex (BBC did create VERA in 1952 but it was never a commercial product – See Wikipedia for...
Why is TV 29.97 Frames Per Second (in North America)?

Why is TV 29.97 Frames Per Second (in North America)?

by | 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...
Analogue Colour Television (NTSC/PAL)

Analogue Colour Television (NTSC/PAL)

by | 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...