13 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
clamper
Entertainment; Video
A device which functions during the horizontal blanking or sync interval to fix the level of the picture signal at some predetermined reference level at the beginning of each scanning line.
base film thickness
Entertainment; Video
The thickness of the polyester material used for magnetic tape, varying from 0.24 mil in C120 cassette tape to 1.5 mil for audio mastering tape and instrumentation tape.
clamping
Entertainment; Video
a) The process that establishes a fixed level for the picture signal at the beginning of each scanning line. b) The process whereby a video signal is referenced or “clamped” to a DC level to prevent ...
baseband
Entertainment; Video
a) Refers to the composite video signal as it exists before modulating the picture carrier. Not modulated. Composite video distributed throughout a studio and used for recording is at baseband. b) ...
clean rooms
Entertainment; Video
Rooms whose cleanliness is measured by the number of particles of a given size per cubic foot of room volume. For example, a class 100,000 clean room may have no more than 100,000 particles onehalf ...
baseline restorer
Entertainment; Video
An information processing unit intended to remove the DC and low-order frequency distortion terms that result from use of record/reproduce transfer function which cannot pass DC in conjunction with a ...
