40 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
Frequency modulation
Entertainment; Video
A) Modulation of sine wave or “carrier” by varying its frequency in accordance with amplitude variations of the modulating signal. b) Also referring to the North American audio service broadcast over ...
Frequency response
Entertainment; Video
A) The range of frequencies which a piece of equipment can process. b) A system’s ability to uniformly transfer signal components of different frequencies without affecting their amplitudes. This ...
Frequency response curve
Entertainment; Video
The curve relating the variation in output with frequency of a piece of equipment or magnetic tape when the input is kept constant.
Frequency response rolloff
Entertainment; Video
A distortion in a transmission system where the higher frequency components are not conveyed at their original full amplitude. In video systems, this causes loss of colour saturation.
Frequency synthesiser
Entertainment; Video
An electronic circuit that generates a number of frequencies from a fixed-reference frequency. Some frequency synthesisers generate only a relatively small number of frequencies; others generate ...
Fringing
Entertainment; Video
The pickup of extra bass frequency signals by a playback head when reproducing a signal recorded by a head with a wider track configuration, such as playing a full-track tape with a half-track head.
From source
Entertainment; Video
VTR or other device that is generating the video/audio signal that is being dissolved or wiped away from.
