Home > Industry/Domain > Software > 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.

Contributors in Video editing

Video editing

Sup-picture

Software; Video editing

A simple picture intended to be superimposed over the video. Display size varies but is bound to CCIR 601 picture dimensions (720 x 480 for NTSC-rate displays or 720 x 576 for PAL-rate displays).

Variable bit rate (VBR)

Software; Video editing

Operation where the bit rate changes with time during the decoding of a compressed bit stream. Although variable bit rate is acceptable for plain linear playback, one important consideration not to ...

Past reference picture

Software; Video editing

A past reference picture is a reference picture that occurs at an earlier time than the current picture in display order.

Read before write

Software; Video editing

A feature of some videotape recorders that plays back the video or audio signal off of tape before it reaches the record heads, sends the signal to an external device for modification, and then ...

Sizing

Software; Video editing

The operation of shrinking or stretching video data between a system’s input and display. Normally, a combination of scaling and zooming.

Timbre

Software; Video editing

The harmonic content of a tone and the relative intensities of the different harmonics.

Word

Software; Video editing

Set of characters that occupies one storage location and is treated by the computer circuits as a unit. Ordinarily a word is treated by the control unit as an instruction and by the arithmetic unit ...

Featured blossaries

Anne of Green Gables

Category: Entertainment   3 24 Terms

The Most Influential Rock Bands of the 1970s

Category: Entertainment   1 6 Terms