Recording equipment

Recording equipment

Any equipment used to record sound or visual images.

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vertical drive (VD)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Signal used to synchronize the field rate of a camera to an external source. Mostly used in B/W together with HD (Horizontal Drive).

vertical resolution

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Number of equally spaced horizontal black-to-white or white-to-black transitions that a camera is able to reproduce. Indicates the amount of vertical details that can be ...

video system control architecture (VISCA)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

RS-232C serial control protocol intended to interface up to seven items of video equipment on one computer link.

V-lock sync

Consumer electronics; Video camera

see Genlock.

VS (video + sync)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The composite monochrome video signal commonly used as the genlock signal in B/W systems.

white balance (WB)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

In a color camera, white balance is the process of adjusting the values of its color differences signals so that a white object in a scene illuminated by a particular source of ...

S-Video (Y/C)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Separate signals for the Luminance and Chrominance parts of the video signal. Allows higher picture resolution and suppresses cross color effects. Connector is the 4-pin mini-DIN.