Digital Technology

Digital technology has affected the way films are produced because the film is advanced. You can now come to high definiton. Your able to watch films now in 3D, the picture affect makes the film look spectacular & migical.

• New digital camera's technology rivals traditional film for quality. Example; Sony HDW-F900 camcoders using a high-definition format called HD-CAM.
• Digital viedo much cheaper than film.
• Virtually no processing neccessary before the editing stage.
• Tapes can be re-used many times -unlike film.
• By Hollywook standards digital viedo costs virtually nothing.

The Flexibility; many films already edited digitally. However, film has to be converted to digital format -edited- converted back to film. Although image is degraded  & it's costly and time consuming.

With digital it can be replayed immediattly -doesn't need to be processed like film.  Example: On Attack od the Clones -Shot in the morning & edited in the afternoon. This cuts production time & costs.