Considerations regarding the Use of Digital Data to Generate Video Backgrounds
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.
- Print ISSN
- 0036-1682
- Published
- 1978-08
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J06700