Our goal is to make the Sex Lies and Videotape video production glossary a helpful guide for anyone outside the video production industry charged with the awesome responsibility of producing a video. If you can think of any content we could add that might help you and your video production please call and tell us on 01932 853696 or e-mail Quint on mail@shootyou.co.uk

This video production glossary is designed only as a reference and will continue to evolve (incept date Jan1 2003) through FAQ's we encounter whilst working through www.shootyou.co.uk  our video production arm. It's designed to help clients who have simply been told 'go and find a uk video production company to produce a corporate video for us'. The first contact with us usually begins with '…I need to produce a corporate video, but how?' Every industry -and sectors within those industries- have their own 'language'. As a uk video production company we've had to learn the respective 'languages' for our clients in knowledge management, business communications and public relations. In other words we know how you feel.

For example, a few months ago I realised our contact at a major PR firm didn't know how to advance a PowerPoint presentation for a sales presentation. That same evening my 72 year old father quizzed me about viral MPEGs. Video production knowledge seems to be out there in pockets, with various individuals within public relations, financial institutions, the construction or the travel industry, knowing differing amounts, about various applications. In a recent video we produced for Hewlett Packard one line of script said '…it's hard to imagine an industry which changes as quickly as IT…' I thought 'video production'.

This site hopes to explain the rudiments of video production, video editing, and video compression. The formats video can come in: video on CD Rom, DVD, and VHS. And video delivery systems: video streaming, video in flash, video in PowerPoint, video on intranets, extranets and other ways in which broadband will affect video production not just in the UK but internationally.

The fact is the internet -and intranets- will only get faster meaning video production as a resource will become more frequently used. The formats and delivery systems will change in ways we can't possibly imagine at speeds impossible to predict. But whether it's a corporate video, a viral MPEG or video of a conference, workshop or seminar, it's all about communicating ideas.

We hope this site will help.

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