Many of the questions I get from readers and see on Web forums relate to confusion about the formats and file types used in the video production process. Briefly, a format defines the file structure, or how the information is presented in the file. D

I've been down on MPEG-4 for a while now, despite my respect for many of the folks associated with the standard. Given the adoption of Microsoft's Windows Media Video 9 by the DVD Forum, there's increasing reason to believe, to paraphrase an old Sout

The nice thing about DV is that when it arrived, it arrived alone, at least in the prosumer/consumer space, which was too price-sensitive for DVCAM and DVCPRO. There was analog and there was DV, and that was it. Unfortunately, new products have signi