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Video Editing on the PC
Digital video processing with the PC is comparable to audio processing. The analog medium that is
video must first be digitized before it can be processed by the computer.
Digital video processing functions quite similar to recording via a sound card. The signal flow is measured
in very short, regular intervals, and the values resulting from it can then be processed by the computer.
The accuracy of each individual measurement results in the resolution, and the frequency of the
measurements results in the frame rate. The more precise and frequent the signal is measured, the higher
the quality of the digitized video, but also the higher demands on the capture performance and the
required storage space. The Windows standard format for video files is AVI
(audio and video Interleaved).
Digitizing video adopts either the camera or the graphics card, a TV card (e.g. Miro PCTV), or a video
card (e.g. Fast AV Master). However, video handling makes much higher demands upon the hardware if
good image quality is required. In order to be able to reasonably process video files on today's PCs, they
must be compressed. Digital audio, on the other hand only uses compression for saving storage space.
HDTV
This acronym stands for "High Definition Telev
ision.
High definition television is a general term applied to a series of television norms that differentiate
themselves from normal television by increased resolution and an altered aspect ratio (16:9). This type of
digital television offers cinema-like image quality and impressive sound quality. With doubled horizontal
and vertical resolution the image quality of HDTV
is approximately four times as sharp as previous standards (PAL, NTSC, SESAM).
At this time MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 deluxe supports two resolution standards:

720p (1280x720 pixel)

1080i (1920x1080 pixel)
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