Editing Video camera (section)

==Recording media==

Early video could not be directly recorded.<ref name=McLean /> The first somewhat successful attempt to directly record video was in 1927 with [[John Logie Baird]]’s disc based [[Phonovision]].<ref name=McLean /> The discs were unplayable with the technology of the time although later advances allowed the video to be recovered in the 1980s.<ref name=McLean>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tvdawn.com/tv1strx.htm|title='Phonovision': 1927-28 « the Dawn of TV}}</ref> The first experiments with using tape to record a video signal took place in 1951.<ref name=marsh /> The first commercially released system was Quadruplex videotape produced by [[Ampex]] in 1956.<ref name=marsh /> Two years later Ampex introduced a system capable of recording colour video.<ref name=marsh>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.library.duke.edu/bitstreams/2017/07/27/history-videotape-part-1/ |title=A History of Videotape, Part 1 |last=Marsh |first=Alex |date=27 July 2017 |website=Bitstreams |publisher=Duke University |access-date=11 February 2022 }}</ref> The first recording systems designed to be mobile (and thus usable outside the studio) were the [[Portapak]] systems starting with the Sony DV-2400 in 1967.<ref name=Buckingham /> This was followed in 1981 by the [[Betacam]] system where the tape recorder was built into the camera making a camcorder.<ref name=Buckingham>{{cite book |last1=Buckingham |first1=David |last2=Willett |first2=Rebekah |last3=Pini |first3=Maria|date=2011 |title=Home Truths?: Video Production and Domestic Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KA13kssIGmEC&pg=PA9 |location= |publisher=University of Michigan Press |page=9 |isbn=978-0-472-05137-3}}</ref>