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Vocabulary

Video and footage

What is the difference between video and footage.
  

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Footage : film of a particular subject or event: 'dramatic footage of the raid'. film/video footage : 'video footage for a number of documentary projects'.

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  • Footage : film of a particular subject or event: 'dramatic footage of the raid'.
  • film/video footage : 'video footage for a number of documentary projects'.
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Footage: film of a particular subject or event: 'dramatic footage of the raid'.
film/video footage: 'video footage for a number of documentary projects'.
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Physical film has frames, individual pictures, of varying sizes depending on the method of projection. Each method runs the film through a projector at a characteristic fixed speed, so a length of film (the footage) is equivalent to a length of time. So "footage" is some length of a movie, generally covering some event or topic. The same can be said of videotape, but most video these days is d
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