20 Terms
Contributors in Video
Video
60 frames per second
Entertainment; Video
Frame rate of Showscan and some progressively scanned ATV schemes.
alpha mix
Entertainment; Video
A way of combining two images. How the mixing is performed is provided by the alpha channel. The little box that appears over the left-hand shoulder of a news anchor is put there by an alpha ...
abort
Entertainment; Video
Halts the program and returns control to the operator or operating system.
ambient lighting
Entertainment; Video
Light that emanates from no particular source, coming from all directions with equal intensity.
absolute time code
Entertainment; Video
Absolute time code (ATC) is generally recorded in the subcode or control track region of any digital tape. This is the code that digital tape machines use to locate specific points on a tape for ...
ambient sound
Entertainment; Video
A representative sample of background audio (such as a refrigerator hum or crowd murmur) particular to a shooting location. Ambient sound is gathered in the course of a production to aid the sound ...
