digital video

Filmed on computers

Digital video is video that has been encoded as digital data rather than stored on analog media like film or magnetic tape.

This format allows video to be easily copied, edited, compressed, and transmitted without degradation in quality.

Digital video is the standard for everything from smartphone recordings to streaming services to professional filmmaking.

I transferred all our old home movies to digital video.

Related

frame rate · bitrate · pixels · MPEG · H.264 · resolution · transcoding · streaming · camcorder · frame by frame · 1080p · raw footage · artistic expression · thumbnail · clip · visual storytelling · upload · render

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recording/storage medium

digital videofilm

Movie or coating

35mm film · 16mm film · photographic film · videotape · magnetic tape

media format type

digital videodigital audio

Sound stored numerically

photograph · print media · text

signal encoding

digital videoanalog video

Waveform-based moving images

analog signal · VHS · Betamax · composite video · S-Video

Family

video, digit, digital, videos, digits, videotape, videoing, digitize, digitally

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G