Question | Answer |
Aspect ratio | Ratio of width to height in dimensions of a frame; i.e., frame aspect ratio of NTSC video is 4:3 some motion picture frame sizes use a more elongated aspect ratio of 16:9 |
Chroma Key | Process whereby overlay cards display video on the screen and one of the colors becomes transparent; any place the transparent color appears. You see the video input. |
Codec | Compression/decompression programs used to reduce the size of files |
Cuts | Two adjacent video clips with no transition one clip is immediately replaced with another |
Duration | Setting the length of clip/image |
Fading | A dissolve to or form a background color often black |
frame | A singe still image |
Frame rate | The speed at which frames appear on a display, measured by frames per second |
Frame size | Also referred to as resolution, expressed by the horizontal and vertical dimensions, in pixels, of a frame like 640 by 480 |
Frames per second (FBS) | How many frames displays in one second |
Linear editing | Editing in a sequential order like VHS |
National television standard committee | The standard broadcast system used in the us and Japan |
Non lineral editing | Not editing in a sequential order like dvd |
Phase alternation line PAL | The standard broadcast system used in Europe and Australia |
Production | Creating and editing video |
RCA cable | Cable that usually has a yellow a red, and a white plug that is used to connect a camcorder to a vcr dvd or capture card on a computer |
Cable that usually has a yellow a red, and a white plug that is used to connect a camcorder to a vcr dvd or capture card on a computer | To build a preview or project |
Scrubbing | Manual preview |
superimpose | Layering images or video |
timeline | Part of video editing window that displays tracks |
title | Adding words to videos |
transition | Special effects, such as fade in and fade out, that can be set to occur between frames in an animation |
Video capture | The process of transferring video to the computer |
Video editing | Making changes to taped footage |
Video home system VHS | A strip of magnetic media usually consisting of a plastic mylar/base, a layer o metallic particles, and a bonding agent onto which video and audio signals can be recorded |
Voice overlay | A voice track over music or video. |