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 Preproduction | the phase where you take care of everything that needs to be done before the cameras start rolling |
| Preproduction | the phase where budgeting, storyboarding, and scripting all take place |
| Encoding | putting your digital video into a particular format; ex: MPEG, MPEG2, Windows media |
| Chroma key | keys out all image pixels that are similar to a specified color; using a blue or green screen |
| Codec | software that codes video data into a format readable by a computer |
| Linear editing | copying or recording only the parts of the video footage you want to keep, from one tape to another |
| Nonlinear editing | footage is captured onto a computer and edited using software, then recorded to CD or DVD |
| Production | the phase that includes setting up equipment, lighting, and shooting video footage |
| Capture device | hardware device used to convert analog video to digital video |
| Postproduction | the phase that incudes capturing, editing, mixing sound, rendering, and exporting |
| Backlight | a camcorder feature that boosts the video signal power to obtain optimal image brightness; also known as "automatic gain control" |
| Footage | term used to for the videotape content created with a camcorder |
| Panning | horizontal rotation of camera |
| Script | the audio portion (narration) of a project that gives details and information about the topic; the words said aloud by the characters in the video |
| Storyboard | representation of what each screen of a multimedia project will look like and how the screens are linked; often hand-drawn sketches |
| Tilting | vertical rotation of the camera during a shot |
| Tripod | a three-legged mounting device for a camcorder |
| Video camera | a camera that takes continuous pictures by breaking down the image into a series of lines and generates a signal for display and recording |
| Videographer | a person skilled in the art or practice of making video shows or movies with a video camera |
| White balance | a camcorder adjustment in which the videographer adjusts the color responses of the camera by showing the camcorder the color "white" under the current lighting condition or selecting the icon on the display that best describes the lighting situation (indoor, outdoor, ect) |
| Zooming | the ability to bring an object closer or move away from an object |
| Aspect ratio | ratio of width to height in the 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 where 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 length of clip/image |
| Fading | a dissolve to or from a background color (often black) |
| Frame | a single still image in a video or animation |
| 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; i.e., 640 by 480 pixels |
| Frames per second (FPS) | how many frames (or individual pictures) display in one second |
| Import | to bring information into a computer or computer program |
| National Television Standard Committee (NTSC) | the standard broadcast system used in United States and Japan |
| Phase Alternation Line (PAL) | the standard broadcast system used in Europe and Australia |
| 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 |
| Render | to build a preview or project |
| Scrubbing | manual preview |
| Superimpose | layering images or video over a background |
| Phase Alternation Line | PAL stands for . . . |
| National Television Standard Committee | NTSC stands for . . . |
| Timeline | part of video editing window that displays tracks |
| Title | adding text to a video |
| 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) tape | a strip of magnetic media; usually consisting of a plastic base, a layer of metallic particles, and a bonding agent onto which video and audio signals can be recorded |
| Voice overlay | a voice track over music or video |
| Audio Video Interleave | what does AVI stand for? |
| Motion Picture Experts Group | what does MPEG stand for? |
| Universal Serial Bus | what does USB stand for? |
| Windows Media Video | what does WMV stand for? |
| USB | an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 480 mbps (480 million bits per second) |
| WMV | video file format that can be viewed in Windows Media Player |
| AVI | The three-character filename extension for Microsoft Windows standard video format; format is uncompressed |
| Firewire | cable, also known as IEEE-1394, that carries digital video signals, which include audio, video, and control (stop, start, etc.) signals |
| MPEG | a video file format that provides frame-to-frame compression |
| MOV | file extension for a QuickTime movie |
| S-video | a video format that records a high-quality video signal on an SVHS videocassette that carries at least 400 lines of resolution but is the same size and shape as a regular VHS videocassette |
| Animation | a simulation of movement or the perception of motion created by the rapid display of a series of still images |
| Frame animation | a type of animation that is based on the changes that occur from one frame to another; sometimes known as cel animation |
| Looping | repeating a function until a certain condition is met |
| Morphing | animation technique in which one image is transformed into another image |
| Rendering | the final step in creating a 3-D animation that involves giving objects attributes such as colors, surface textures, and degrees of transparency |
| Tweening | short for in-betweening; the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image |
| Vector animation | moves an object along a predetermined path on the screen; the path could be a straight line or it could include any number of curves; often the object does not change, although it might be resized or reshaped |
| Warping | a special effect that results in distortion of an image |
| Vector animation | also known as path animation |
| 25 | the frame rate of of television and movies |
| Jpeg | a format ideally suited for compressing lots of pictures in small spaces, resulting in a loss of picture quality; Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Gif | common format for Web graphics, especially small images and images that contain text, such as navigation buttons; this format can also be animated; Graphical Interchange Format |
| Tif (Tiff) | most widely used digital format; best suited for high contrast photos (i.e., lossless format); Tagged Image File |
| Png | compressed bitmap file format (lossless) similar to the gif format but is not limited to 256 colors; appropriate for the web; supports transparency; Portable Network Graphic |