Videography, a term first phrased by Bob Kiger in an article in the 1972 edition of ”American Cinematographer.” The name originates from its Latin meaning of “video” (I see), and combines it with the Greek terminal ending “graph” (to write). By today’s standards, videography includes video production and post-production (editing), currently using electronic media rather than it’s former film stock (cinematography) material. The advent of digital imaging in the late 20th century began to blur the distinction between videography and cinematography. The arrival of computers and the Internet created a global environment where videography covered many more fields than just shooting video with a camera, including digital animation (such as Flash), gaming, web streaming, video blogging, still slideshows, remote sensing, spatial imaging, medical imaging, security camera imaging, and in general the production of most bitmap- and vector-based assets.
My initial interest in videography began in the very late 90’s, with the purchase of a Hi8 digital video camera. Editing was a slow and laborious procedure with a low-end analog editing box, where cuts between scenes were as accurate as 4 seconds delay. My editing skills were greatly enhanced with the purchase of my first iMac G3 in 1999, and it’s inclusion of iMovie’s linear editing software.
One of my first college/documentary movies was created using a DVC format camera, and included both analogue and linear editing in post production. The final production for my “City and Guilds certification,” was a 7.5 minute documentary on the history and present situation of the world’s first-recorded passenger railway, "The Mumbles Rail."