Canon XL1 3CCD Camcorder User Manual


 
4:2:2‐Thisformatisusedforhighendvideoauthoring
4:2:0‐Thevastmajorityofdeliverycodecsusethisformat.
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Thereisonechromasampleper2x2blockofpixels.Thischromasamplelooksnearlyasgoodas
4:4:4,butathalfthebitsperframe.
4:1:1‐NTSCDVandPALDVCPROusethisformat.
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Itcontainsthesamenumberofbitsperframeas4:2:0butwithonesampleper
4x1blockofpixels.
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betterforinterlacedcontentbecauseeachfieldgetsitsownsample;however,itcanresultinvisible
chromaartifactsinareasofhighsaturation
yUV9‐Thisformathasonechromasampleper4x4blockofpixels.
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resultsinnoticeablydegradedquality,soitisn’tusedinmoderncodecs.
AudioCompression
Themostfundamentalfactorinaudioissamplingrate,whichismeasuredinHertz(Hz),orcyclesper
second.AudioCDsuse44100Hz,or44.1kilohertz(KHz),whichprovidesexcellentreproduction.
Thetablebelowshowsthetypicalsampleratesforcommonuse.
S
AMPL
E
USED
S
UFFICIENTFOR
8KHz Phonesystem
Speech
11KHz Oldmultimediastandar
d
BetterSpeech
22.050KHz Oldmultimediastandar
d
Recognisablemusi
c