Benefits of using digital video

Nearly all Hollywood movies are still shot with analog cameras.But digital video cameras are slowly replacing the old analog cameras for personal use.Why?Besides being cool and stylish, digital video cameras offer some distinct benefits over the old analog cameras.

The preservation of the finished product-the final image on an analog camera has gone through several "translation processes".First, the light creates a chemicals change on film that is recorded as a negative image.Then, the negative images are translated into a positive image.If you want to use your editing software, the image is further converted into a digital file.Every time the images are changed into a different form, some information can be lost.

Digital images are immediately recorded in a digital file.The original image is stored as a series of 0s and 1s, just like every else on a computer.Digital images never change.

The ease of editing-editing analog video is hard work.Each frame of the film has to be individually handled for cutting and splicing.This is not only a lot of work but also takes its toll on the quality.The bits of film that are handled suffer from the handling.The more editing that film goes through, the more that quality suffers.

Digital editing, on the other hand, is done with editing software.Amazing things can be done with editing software.If you want to change the background of a scene, you just point and click until you get the exact picture that you want.Oops!Did you make a huge mistake?No problem, click on "undo" and undo the big mistake.Editing on the computers is much more forgiving than editing film by hand.

Also, the editing features make it easy to use more than one camera to film an event.If you are going to film a wedding, you might have one camera pointed at the stage at all times and another camera panning around to get pictures of the guests.When you later go to edit the film, you will easily be able to incorporate the footage from either camera into the final product.This technique is becoming more common as the digital cameras become more common.It's fun to splice together the videos that two different people took of one event.

The ability to share-if you video your daughter's birthday party and want to show the video to Grandma, you can either do it immediately with digital, or what until Grandma visits with analog.One of the greatest benefits to digital video is that the files can be easily downloaded onto a computer and then emailed as .WMV files or posted to the web.

All the advantages of the internet are available to the digital video files.You can make as many copies of your video as you want with no cost and no loss of quality.Then you can send the videos, in an instant, to people all over the world.Again with no cost.

The space advantage-digital cameras are smaller than their analog counterparts are and they generally have a sleek, space-age look to them.The big space advantage however is in the storage of completed videos.Instead of having racks full of video tapes with titles written in magic marker on masking tape, imagine having all of your videos neatly organized as files on your computer.

Instead of rummaging through drawers looking for that little league video, you can just type "little league" into your computers search field and wait for the computer to find this file for you.Anybody who has discovered the advantage of storing albums electronically will appreciate the similar advantage offered for video.