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Video editing

Of or pertaining to software that is made to organize raw video footage using editing techniques and special effects in order to create a finalized motion picture.

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input/output (I/O)

Software; Video editing

a) Typically refers to sending information or data signals to and from devices. b) Lines or devices used to transfer information outside the system.

luminance key

Software; Video editing

A key wherein the keying signal is derived from the instantaneous luminance of a video signal after chroma has been filtered out. That is, for a particular clip level, all parts of a scene that are ...

noisy

Software; Video editing

A description of a picture with abnormal or spurious pixel values. The picture’s noise is a random variation in signal interfering with the information content.

kell factor

Software; Video editing

A number describing the loss of vertical resolution from that expected for the number of active scanning lines. Named for Ray Kell, a researcher at RCA Laboratories. Many researchers have come up ...

metal oxide semiconductor (MOS)

Software; Video editing

Integrated circuits made of field effect transistors. All MOS devices originally used metal gate technology, but the term is used to describe silicon gate circuits as well.

insert

Software; Video editing

a) The video that fills a key. Also used to describe the key itself. Insert for most keys is “self,” that is, a key that is filled with the same video that cuts the hole. Ampex switchers also allow ...

luminance noise

Software; Video editing

Noise which manifests itself in a video picture as white snow, typically caused by one of the following situations: low signal level due to poor lighting conditions, poor video signal processing, low ...

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