20 Terms
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absorption
Entertainment; Video
In acoustics, the opposite of reflection. Sound waves are “absorbed” or soaked up by soft materials they encounter. Studio designers put this fact to work to control the problem of reflections coming ...
a-mode edit
Entertainment; Video
An editing method where the footage is assembled in the final scene order. Scene 1, scene 2, etc.
adapter
Entertainment; Video
A device used to achieve compatibility between two items of audio/video equipment.
adaption field
Entertainment; Video
Ancillary program data, especially program clock reference (PCR), which are uncoded and are transmitted at least every 100 ms after the TS header of a data stream (packet information, PID) belonging ...
adaptive bit allocation
Entertainment; Video
The allocation of more bits to image areas of high activity which does not lend itself to all types of video compression techniques, especially when interframe sampling is used.
adaptive differential pulse code modulation
Entertainment; Video
a) A compression technique that encodes the predictive residual instead of the original waveform signal so that the compression efficiency is improved by a predictive gain. Rather than transmitting ...
