Ch. 5Recordable Media & Storage

Which of the following is an advantage to tapeless media?

• No loss of video quality when copying video from one tapeless medium to another.

• Memory cards are big and bulky.

• Importing tapeless media is done in “real time.”

• Tapeless memory cards can only be used once.

Visual imperfections in the picture due to compression issues, dirt, or from using an old tape are called ____.

• digimons

• artifacts

• digidirt

• pixels

The video recording industry is moving toward a totally tapeless environment.

• True

• False

Importing three hours of recorded video from videotape into an editor takes three hours.

• True

• False

A ____ tape is the size of a small box of matches.

• DVCPRO

• Digital Betacam

• Mini-DV

• Beta SX

Heads and tails are very important during the ____ process.

• recording

• editing

• duplication

• distribution

The cable from a camera that brings the camera’s picture signal to a video recorder would attach to the recorder at a connector labeled ____.

• Video Out

• Sync Out

• Video In

• Sync In

“P2” stands for “Parsec Power.”

• True

• False

Artifacts are tiny, rectangular distortions that appear on the screen in digital video formats when a portion of the digital signal is corrupted.

• True

• False

DVR stands for ____.

• digital voice recorder

• digital video recognition

• duplicate video reel

• digital video recorder