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Most popular: in the fundamentals, the Digital Video explained article draws a clear picture of the DV issues. After describing the general scheme, the video source is explained and several capture scenarii are explained: from analog source, from DV camcorder, from DVB (satellite broadcast) and from a DVD-Video. Then editing and processing video chapters introduce several notions such as codec, key-frame, smart rendering and de-interlacing. Finally the encoding chapter is a good introduction to MPEG and the storing a movie chapter introduces Video-CD, Super-VCD and DVD-Video.

In the filming section, Tips for making your own movies might be the very first reading if you're new to digital video.

Jim's selection: in the fundamentals, the Understanding aspect ratio article has been written by Olivier Zaceck when he was a student in Canada. This article is THE reference for aspect ratio, after you'll have read it, aspect ratio won't have any secret for you. Moreover, Olivier wrote high level articles for experts, Dolby Digital Audio-CD explained, PAL → NTSC conversion: the digital way and related guides (Dolby Digital and DTS Audio-CD, Creating AVI's with AC-3 (Dolby Digital) sound, Convert PAL to NTSC video).Olivier was then hired by Ahead Software AG (now Nero AG) in Germany, he deserves a bravo!

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