Use of Video:

For documentation efforts, video cameras are proving to be of
considerable utility in capturing the multidimensional character
of the individual resource as well as the larger context of the
site.  Video is lightweight and easily transportable, and the
quality and completeness of the video recording can be
immediately confirmed in the field.  Video sequences also capture
the environmental sounds at the site, and the images can be
supplemented with verbal commentary either during or after the
video documentation.  The video record is inexpensive, and the
two hour length of a 1/2" videotape provides ample opportunity to
comprehensively record the resource in context.  Oral histories,
images of field notes and sketches, historic photographs, and
other documentary evidence can be placed on tape as part of the
video record.  

Individual images from the video tape can be digitized, processed
on the computer, combined with other images or graphic
information to simulate historic conditions or design proposals,
and then printed, output to a film recorder, or recorded once
again on videotape.  These output recordings can be supplemented
with additional descriptive or explanatory information for
presentation to the public.  

<cfile42>   Video Systems