DVCAM: A Practical Guide to the Professional System / Edition 1

by ASC Fauer

Overview

DVCAM: A Practical Guide to the Professional System, is a nuts and bolts guide for anyone who wants to learn more about Sony DVCAM, to determine what equipment to use, how various models compare, and how to use each of them.
A user-friendly overview of the DVCAM format and its equipment, the text covers camcorders, cameras, tape, VTRs, editors, and accessories. The focus is on quick guides (Jump Start chapters) that show how to use the various Sony DVCAM camcorders: DSR-PD100A, DSR-PD150, DSR-250, DSR-300A, and DSR-500WS. Professionals, film students, independent feature filmmakers, schools, government agencies and military services, and news crews will benefit from its hands-on approach.


This comprehensive, hands-on book is an overview of the DVCAM format and its equipment. DVCAM is the professional video standard developed by Sony, based on the consumer DV video format. In the five years since DVCAM was introduced, over 200,000 cameras and VTRs have been sold, making it the best-selling professional format of all time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780240804804
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/23/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Section 01 What is DVCAM?; Section 01-1-1 DVCAM - How it began; Section 01-2-1 What’s the Difference Between DVCAM and DV?; Section 01-1-2 DVCAM Tape and Cassettes; Section 01-2-2 DVCAM Tape; Section 01-3-1 Speeds; Section 01-3-2 What plays back where; Section 01-3-02 Comparing tape widths; Section 01-2-3 Cassettes; Section 01-3-3 Cassette Memory; Section 01-3-4 Recording DVCAM on consumer DV Cassettes; Section 01-3-5 Recording DV on DV or DVCAM Cassettes; Section 01-3-6 Comparison of Cassette sizes; Section 01-3-7 Cassette Identification; Section 01-3-8 Labeling Your Cassettes; Section 01-3-9 REC - SAVE = Record or Playback Only; Section 01-1-3 Don’t…Because; Section 01-2-4 DVCAM Tape Online; Section 01-2-5 Replacement for U-matic?; Section 01-2-6 A Guide to DVCAM; Section 02 Choosing a DVCAM Camcorder; Section 03 Sony DSR-PD100A; Section 03-1-1 DSR-PD100A Camera Views; Section 03-1-2 DSR-PD100A Jump Start; Section 03-2-1 Removing Battery; Section 03-2-2 Attaching Battery; Section 03-3-7 Recharging Battery; Section 03-2-3 Loading Tape; Section 03-1-3 Shooting: Quick Start; Section 03-2-4 Auto Everything; Section 03-3-8 Auto Lock and Auto Focus; Section 03-3-9 Viewfinder Warnings; Section 03-2-5 Eyepiece and Eyecup; Section 03-2-6 Handgrip; Section 03-2-7 Lens and Sunshade; Section 03-2-8 LCD Viewing Screen; Section 03-2-9 ND Filter; Section 03-1-4 Manual Exposure; Section 03-2-10 AUTO LOCK Switch Off; Section 03-2-11 Setting EXPOSURE (Aperture); Section 03-3-10 Backlight; Section 03-2-12 Shutter; Section 03-3-11 Slow shutter speeds; Section 03-1-5 Program AE; Section 03-3-12 Aperture Priority; Section 03-3-13 Shutter Priority; Section 03-3-14 Sports Lesson Mode; Section 03-3-15 Sunset and Moon; Section 03-3-16 Low Lux; Section 03-2-13 Focus, Zoom, Zebra Stripes, etc.; Section 03-1-6 Menu and Navigation; Section 03-1-7 CAMERA Menu; Section 03-2-14 MEMORY Menu; Section 03-2-15 VTR Menu; Section 04 DSR-PD150; Section 04-1-2 Overview; Section 04-2-2 For a Few Dollars M

Editorial Reviews

"What I found was a well laid out book with comparisons not so much of manufactures but of formats. The virtues of DVCAM are well laid out in language that is easy to understand for the layman but not so simplistic that a professional can't get something out of it. An excellent read for both the user who is already shooting DVCAM and the professional cameraman who is who is just entering the digital realm. With comprehensive sections on the difference between compression, sampling, quantizing, and digitizing the reader gains a better understanding of whats going on when an image hits the CCD and how it ends up on tape." - volksmovie.com

"In his previous book, Shooting Digital Video, Jon Fauer, ASC provided an exemplary overview of digital video, covering DVCam, MiniDV and DVCPro. His new book, DVCAM, is a comprehensive summary of the Sony DVCam format and its equipment, including cameras, tape, VTRs, editors and accessories." - Ray Zone, American Cinematographer

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