Entertainment

Entertainment

The art or field of entertaining, especially that provided by performers.

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chroma key

Entertainment; Video

The process of overlaying one video signal over another by replacing a range of colors with the second signal. Typically, the first (foreground) picture is photographed with a ...

chrominance level

Entertainment; Video

The color portion of a video signal separate from the luminance (or brightness) component, representing the saturation and hue (tint) at a particular point of the image. Black, ...

common image format (CIF)

Entertainment; Video

The standardization of the structure of the samples that represent the picture information of a single frame in digital HDTV, independent of frame rate and sync/blank structure. ...

cinepak

Entertainment; Video

CinePak is a compression scheme dedicated to PC environments, based on a vector quantization algorithm. CinePak is a highly asymmetrical algorithm, i.e., the encoding takes much ...

clip

Entertainment; Video

a) A video file. b) In keying, the trigger point or range of a key source signal at which the key or insert takes place. c) The control that sets this action. to produce a key ...

clipping

Entertainment; Video

a) An electronic limit usually imposed in cameras to avoid overly bright or dark signals. When improperly applied, can result in loss of picture information in very bright or very ...

codec

Entertainment; Video

Code/Decode. An encoder plus a decoder is an electric device that compresses and decompresses digital signals. CODECs usually perform A-to-D and D-to-A conversion.