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AR DCIV Unit 3
Video Post-Production
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Aspect ratio | the relationship between the width and height of an image; conventional video and TV is 4:3; widescreen 16:9 |
| B-roll (cut away) | supplemental or alternate footage intercut with the main shot in an interview or documentary |
| Burning | the process of transferring or recording data to an optical disk, i.e. DVD |
| Duration | the span between the in point and the out point of a video clip |
| Fading | one image slowly dissolves to display the next image or fades to black |
| File compression | reducing the file size of video while maintaining acceptable quality |
| Frame rate | The number of frames recorded per second |
| Frame size | also referred to as resolution, expressed by the horizontal and vertical dimensions of a frame |
| Lower thirds | in the television industry, an element placed in the lower area of the screen, though not necessarily the entire lower third; example, sports scores or news highlights across the bottom of the screen |
| Nat sounds | natural sounds; the sounds that would naturally occur where video is being shot |
| NTSC | broadcast standard used in North America; uses 4:3 aspect ratio with 29.97 fps; |
| PAL | broadcast standard used in most of Europe and the rest of the world; uses 4:3 ratio with 25fps |
| Render | to build a preview of a project from the source files such as video clips, audio clips, titles, graphics, transitions, etc. |
| Rolling credits | credits at the end of a video production that gradually roll up the screen in a continuous list. |
| Scrubbing | a manual preview of a video project |
| Sound bite | short piece of an speech or interview used in video production |
| Superimpose | layering images or video |
| Templates | a format used to provide a consistent look and feel to a production; can be predefined by the software or created by the developer |
| Timeline | an editing interface that lays out a video project in a linear fashion |
| Title overlay | superimposing text on an image or video |
| Transition | special effects set to occur between the frames in a video production |
| Video capture | the process of transferring video from a camera to the computer |
| Voice-over | the recorded voice narrating the story |