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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 person or object ...

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, gray and white have no ...

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. The uncompressed bit ...

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 more processing power ...

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 signal from a video ...

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 dark areas. Also ...

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.