Video editing

Video editing

Of or pertaining to software that is made to organize raw video footage using editing techniques and special effects in order to create a finalized motion picture.

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Source/tape switch

Software; Video editing

A control found on control amplifiers with tape monitor jacks, and on recorders with monitor heads, allows comparison of the signal being fed to the tape (source) with the signal just recorded.

The angle and speed at which the tape passes the video heads. Due to small differences in head-to-tape alignment between VCRs, it is sometimes necessary to adjust the tracking control on a VCR when ...

Open systems interconnection (OSI)

Software; Video editing

The OSI Reference Model was formally initiated by the International organisation for standardisation (ISO) in March, 1977, in response to the international need for an open set of communications ...

Profile

Software; Video editing

A) A defined subset of the syntax of a specification. b) Subdivision of video coding into different resolutions. c) Defines the amount of functions and compression processes involved. It is, in other ...

Sepia tone

Software; Video editing

A process used in photography to generate a brownish tone in pictures giving them an “antique” appearance. The same idea has been electronically adapted for video production where a black and white ...

System

Software; Video editing

An organised assembly of equipment, personnel, procedures, and other facilities designed to perform a specific function or set of functions.

Video gain

Software; Video editing

Expressed on the waveform monitor by the voltage level of the whitest whites in the active picture signal. Defined as the range of light-to-dark values of the image which are proportional to the ...