intimate knowledge of what kind of stock he or she is using. While some film makers find it fascinating to think about the chemical composition and light-sensitivity of different types of stock, others want to skip the preliminaries and start telling their story.
With digital video, trained cinematographers can see what they’re filming as they’re filming it. High-end digital equipment can display the scene being filmed, in addition to important statistics about light and color balance in the shot, as well as any focusing tools that are being used. This makes digital video production significantly easier, and, often, less costly.
However, perhaps the most celebrated advantage of digital video among artists is the immense amount of control it offers during the editing process. Computers make ordinarily complicated tasks of video production editing easy and fast.