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HDProduction Final Exam
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Film, Theatre & Television
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01/14/2009

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Term
Television Ratings
Definition
A.C. Neilson. 4 times a year for the main rating sweeps.
Term
Downloading and Streaming
Definition
Downloading-Sends it to you faster, breaks up the file into pieces and sends it out of order.

Streaming-longer to get, it's received from beginning to end.
Term
Lossy and Losless Compression
Definition
Lossy-Gets rid of data
Losless-Doesn't get rid of data
Term
Limitations of Microwave Signals
Definition
Cannot go through objects
Term
What is a mini-link used for?
Definition
To bounce the signal around objects.
Term
C-Band and Ku-band dishes
Definition
CBand-Large dishes, operate with lower power and frequencies. not susceptible weather. used for pre-scheduled things.

Ku-Band-Smaller dishes, high power and frequencies. Susceptible to weather. used for direct broadcast satellite(DBS) Also used for breaking news and field reports live to a station.
Term
The aspect ratio for HDTV
Definition
16x9
Term
An advantage of digital recording devises
Definition
No generation loss
Term
Types of broadcast video connections
Definition
Digital-SDI and HDSDI

Analog-Y/Color Difference
Term
Standard NTSC television scanning type
Definition
Interlaced
Term
Digital television scanning types
Definition
Progressive and interlaced
Term
DV25 data stream formats
Definition
Digital-MiniDV, DVCam, DVCPro25, digital 8

Analog-Beta Cam
Term
Primary colors of analog and digital television
Definition
Red, Green, Blue
Term
Copying analog recording and digital recordings
Definition
Digital has no generation loss...analog does.
Term
Which microwave signal can be less stable in bad weather?
Definition
Ku-Band
Term
The smallest single imaging element
Definition
Pixel
Term
The channel responsible for color
Definition
Chrominance or C Channel
Term
What is a CCU?
Definition
Camera Control Unit
Term
The channel responsible for brightness
Definition
Luminance or Y Channel
Term
Most common imaging device in color Cameras
Definition
CCD
Term
Types of Microwave transmitters
Definition
Dish, backpack transmitter w/antenna, transmitter on back of camera with antenna.
Term
What does a CCD do?
Definition
converts light into electricity
Term
What does a beam splitter do
Definition
splits light into RGB
Term
Adding red, green, and blue light
Definition
give you white!
Term
The producer responsible for the budget
Definition
Line Producer
Term
the main line coming from the cable system origination point
Definition
Trunk line
Term
Functions of the CCU
Definition
Iris, brightness level, black level(pedestal), gamma curve, color balance. Anything that deals with picture.
Term
What does the RCU or RCP control?
Definition
CCU
Term
A professional video signal connector
Definition
BNC
Term
how to minimize the blur of fast-moving objects
Definition
increase shutter speed
Term
How to boost the signal in low-light conditions
Definition
increase gain after opening iris
Term
Benefits of 3 chip cameras
Definition
better color
Term
Trunk, Feeder, and Drop Lines
Definition
Trunk-Main communication
Feeder-splits up the signal
Drop-ges to each home or business.
Term
Chrominance and Luminance signals
Definition
Chrominance-Color
Luminance-Brightness
Term
upstream and downstream keyers
Definition
upstream-happens before the m/e bus.
downstream-happens just before the output.
Term
Program, preview, key and M/E buses
Definition
Program-sent to line out.
Preview-goes to preview monitor.
Key-Used to select keyer inputs.
M/E-Combining two different inputs.
Term
what is a rating point and how is it calculated?
Definition
It's a percentage of the number of people watching the show over the number of tv's in the market area.
Term
how are ratings information gathered?
Definition
diaries, phone calls, boxes/meters they put on your tv, people meter.
Term
What is a share point and how is it calculated?
Definition
how many people watching the show over how many people watching tv at that time.
Term
What is a Cume?
Definition
It's the same thing as reach. The reach of that show or commercial. how many different households saw "it" at least once that week.
Term
Live multi-camera productions on location
Definition
use remotes, such as trucks with control rooms inside.
Term
Powering a remote truck
Definition
either a generator or connecting to on-site power. Not many places have that option though.
Term
Nonlinear systems
Definition
not on tape, such as hard drive or something like that...anything but tape.
Term
what does a transponder do?
Definition
transmits and receives audio and video, powers down when there's no signal coming in.
Term
Old method and new methods of still graphics.
Definition
Old Method-shoot a picture
New method-ESS(electronic still store)
Term
Satellite signal conversion
Definition
pal to ntsc, or vice versa
Term
parts of camera chain
Definition
camera head, ccu, power supply, sync generator
Term
Television show producers
Definition
line producer, executive, research, segment, talent, field, and show runner.
Term
Bonus! the order tv networks came online in the us
Definition
CBS-1939
NBC-1941
ABC-1948
Term
Bonus! People that were involved with the development of the tv signal and systems.
Definition
Philo Farnsworth-inventor. he was the first to demonstrate a complete working electronic system.
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