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Important video terms and concepts - HitFilm Express Tutorial
From the course: Making Video 2: Teach Something
Important video terms and concepts
- Now that you have a basic understanding of process, let's talk about some basic video terms that will be useful to know. First up, I want to talk about video resolution. The resolution of video is represented by the number of horizontal lines contained within the video frame. Until the last fifteen years or so most video was standard definition or SD. Several SD formats include NTSC, with a visible resolution of 720 pixels by 480 pixels, so it contained 480 lines of resolution, as well as PAL with 576 lines of resolution. Again this was the general standard for more than 50 years. Then HD came onto the scene with two more main standards. There's 720 HD, which has a resolution of 1280 by 720, and 1080 HD with a resolution of 1920 by 1080. As you can see, HD video grew the size of the video frame by quite a bit. In recent years, ultra high def video has increased video resolutions even more. As you can see 4K increases the video frame by about four times that of HD, then there's even…
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