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Diegetic sound
Entertainment; Movies
Also Known As:Actual sound. A sound that is created by something or someone visible on the screen or whose source is implied to be present by the action of the film.
Digital Compositing
Entertainment; Movies
A technique whereby separately filmed components are combined through digital editing. Contrast with optical printing.
Digital Compositor
Entertainment; Movies
A person who does compositing by digital means (at a computer), as opposed to using (pre-digital) optical or physical techniques.
Digital Editing
Entertainment; Movies
Editing a portion of a movie by digitizing one or more frames and altering them electronically or combining them with other digitized images, and then printing the modified frame.
MOS
Entertainment; Movies
Also Known As: Mit Out Sound, Minus Optical Stripe, Motor Only Sync, . A take that is filmed without recording sound at the same time. MOS stands for "mit out sound"--it is purported that director ...
Motion Artifact
Entertainment; Movies
Also Known As: Strobing, Nyquist Limit. The visual interference patterns between a shot's frame rate and a filmed object's periodic motion or change. If a shot is filmed with a frame rate R, any ...
Motion Blur
Entertainment; Movies
Shots of objects that quickly move in the camera's frame, and/or shots with a slow shutter speed are likely to produce a "smearing" effect, since the object is in a range of positions during a single ...
