ABSTRACT
Video productions are generally distributed with nonlinear accessibility such as online, mobile phones, or via DVDs. With the high quality of consumer and prosumer equipment, video productions can be made with equipment ranging from the most sophisticated professional broadcast/cinema standards to low-cost consumer items. Television broadcast transmissions are required to conform to closely controlled technical standards established by the Federal Communications Commission. However, television productions may be considered to be a type of video production once they are distributed in a nonbroadcast method such as online. Most production equipment has been designed for quick, uncomplicated handling. All successful production emerges from a knowledge base of the equipment, production techniques, and video production process. Sometimes special effects on equipment can tempt the camera operator to use them because they are there rather than because they are needed. Video equipment is as much a communication tool as a computer or a cell phone.
