Today's Video Table of Contents

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

OTHER TV PRODUCTION GIZMOS

VIDEO MONITORING EQUIPMENT
Underscanned Monitor
Pulse-Cross Monitor
Waveform Monitor
Reading the Waveform Monitor.
Operating the Waveform Monitor.
Connecting Up the Waveform Monitor.
Vectorscope
Reading the Vectorscope.
Operating the Vectorscope.
Connecting the Vectorscope.
Advanced Waveform Monitors and Vectorscopes
Test Signal Generator
Desktop Waveform Monitors, Vectorscopes and Test Signal Generators
Anatomy of Color Bars on a Waveform Monitor
Calibrating your TV Monitor using Color Bars
Step by step procedure for adjusting a color TV monitor.
Why It Works.
Using the Vectorscope to Adjust Camera Color
Matching Several Color Cameras
Step-By-Step Process for Matching Color Cameras.
Waveform and Vectorscope Displays of VCR Playbacks
VIDEO IMPROVING EQUIPMENT
Processing Amplifier or Proc Amp
Using the Proc Amp to Adjust the Picture from a Video Tape.
Setting Up a Tape for Playback.
Connecting the Proc Amp.
Kinds of Proc Amps.
Image Enhancers
Operating the Enhancer.
Connecting an Enhancer.
Time Base Corrector
Frame Synchronizers vs. TBCs.
Built-in TBCs.
How TBCs work.
Connecting a TBC.
Color Corrector
TRANSCODING
AUDIO IMPROVING EQUIPMENT
Audio Delay
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION EQUIPMENT
Video Distribution Amplifier
Audio distribution amplifier
Pulse distribution amplifier
Multiplexer
Video Patch Bay
Routing Switcher
Modulator or RF Generator
LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSIONS
Long-Range Cable Runs
Infrared Transmitters
Microwave Transmitters
Fiber Optics
ITFS
Telephone
Internet
OTHER ACCESSORIES
Genlock
Bulk Tape Eraser
Captioning Equipment
Audio Test Signal Generator.
Everything Converter.
Pen-Sized Video Test Signal Generator.
File Format Converter.
Security devices

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