ABSTRACT
The advent of high-quality, relatively inexpensive high-definition digital cameras has caused a sea-change in independent film making. Digital video imaging systems are tricky, to say the least, for matchmoving. As fantastic as it is to shoot the opus in the morning and start working on the effects that evening, it isn't actually that simple, especially if one haven't planned their workflow out in advance. Though digital cameras are certainly being used on feature films right now, the vast majority of features are still shot on 35mm film. Video chips, or CCDs, are the light sensors in a digital camera that are analogous to the film/film gate in a 35mm camera.
