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Emulsion layer

Entertainment; Video

(1) Broadly, any light-sensitive photographic material consisting of a gelatin emulsion containing silver halide together with the base and any other layers or ingredients that may be required to ...

Refers to the size of the area on the artwork which falls within the sight of the camera. Thus, a 12 field is roughly 12 inches across and a 9 field is 9 inches across. Even though a drawing or cel ...

Filtering

Entertainment; Video

A process used in both analogue and digital image processing to reduce bandwidth. philtres can be designed to remove information content such as high or low frequencies, for example, or to average ...

Footage encoder time code generator

Entertainment; Video

An electronic device which takes the input from a reader of Keykode numbers, decodes this information and correlates the numbers with the SMPTE time code it generates. These data, along with 3:2 ...

Frames per second (FPS)

Entertainment; Video

The number of images contained in a single second of a moving picture. Thirty FPS is considered full-motion video. Many proprietary digital video technologies produce only 15 FPS video. Film is 24 ...

Frame synchronisation

Entertainment; Video

A digital electronic device which synchronises two or more video signals. The frame synchronizer uses one of its inputs as a reference and genlocks the other video signals to the reference's sync and ...

Luminance

Entertainment; Video

The degree of brightness (black and white portion of the video signal) at any given point in the video image. A video signal is comprised of luminance, chrominance (color information) and sync. If ...