Considerations regarding the Use of Digital Data to Generate Video Backgrounds

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: J SMPTE
Volume: 87, No. 8, pp. 499–504
Abstract: Considering the probable future of digital technology over the next half dozen years, it should become possible to do television production using a stage that is entirely empty except for the actors. Subsequently the background scenery and even the foreground props would be filled in by digital electronics. The technical advances that could make this possible include advanced framestores with greatly expanded digital memories—more bytes at less cost and with reduced access time—and new holographic techniques. With such equipment, electronic backgrounds and props would look just as real and substantial as the actors themselves and could be panned over, zoomed in on, and lit up just as actual studio or location scenery could be. A “tagged video” keying technique would be used to “position” such “scenery” and we can conceive that digital “libraries” would be developed as sources for the scenic designers to draw from.
Publication Date: 1978-08-01
DOI: 10.5594/J06700
ISSN: Print: 0036-1682
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/J06700
Author(s): Eugene LeonardDaVinci Systems Group, P.O. Box 213, Port Washington, NY 11050.
Copyright: © 1978 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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