Contributors in Video

Video

Forward motion vector

Entertainment; Video

Information that is used for motion compensation from a reference picture at an earlier time in display order.

Four-track or quarter-track recoding

Entertainment; Video

The arrangement by which four difference channels of sound may be recorded on quarter-inch-wide audio tape. These may be recorded as four separate and distinct tracks (monophonic) or two stereo pairs ...

Fractals

Entertainment; Video

Mathematically generated descriptions (images) which look like the complex patterns found in nature (e.g., the shoreline and topographic elevations of a land mass as seen from an aerial photograph). ...

Fragmentation

Entertainment; Video

The scattering of data over a disc caused by successive recording and deletion operations. Generally this will eventually result in slow data recall, a situation that is not acceptable for video ...

Frame

Entertainment; Video

A) A frame consists of all the information required for a complete picture. For interlaced scan systems, there are two fields in a frame. For progressive video, these lines contain samples starting ...

Frame buffer

Entertainment; Video

A) A block of digital memory capable of buffering a frame of video. The amount of memory required for a frame buffer is based on the video being stored. For example to store a 640 X 480 image using ...

Frame capture (frame grabber)

Entertainment; Video

Taking one frame of video and storing it on a hard drive for use in various video effects.

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