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Field-removed VideoField-removed video is a controversial technique used in television broadcasting. Once recording television programmes became common in the 1960s two options were available, film which was expensive but gave a soft, richly coloured picture and the harder, more immediate videotape. As it was more expensive, film came to be used only in high status drama projects whilst everyday programming such as news, sitcoms and soap operas were shot on video which could be taped over if necessary and did not require developing or more expensive editing processes. Field-removed video (FRV) was developed in an attempt to give cheaper video footage a richer, more film-like appearance with all the gravitas that film use implies. Film records at 24 frames per second whilst video footage consists of 48 picture 'fields' in the same period. FRV involves electronically removing half these fields to give the same 'frame rate' as film. The result gives a similar, dignified, impression of movement to that gained from film but with the more realistic colour and brightness associated with video. The product is neither film nor video but something in between. If the programme is intended from the start to be in FRV then it can be lit and shot in such a way to work well. Critics of the process accuse it of producing a claustrophobic, artificial image especially in programmes that were initially lit for video and remastered in FRV. Its use is common in the situation comedy genre especially in the United States and Britain and also in cinema films such as Trainspotting. External link
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