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Multimedia App.
MM II- End of Course Review
Question | Answer |
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A camcorder feature that boosts the video signal power to obtain optimal image brightness; also known as "automatic gain control" | Backlight |
Term used to indicate videotape created with a camcorder | Footage |
Horizontal rotation of camera | Panning |
Planning video | Preproduction |
The audio portion (narration) of a project that gives details and information aout the topic; the words said aloud by the characters | Script |
Representation of what each screen of a multimedia project will look ike and how the screens are linked; often hand-drawn sketches | Storyboard |
Vertical rotation of the camera during a shot | Tilting |
A three-legged mounting device for a camcorder | Tripod |
A camera that takes continuous pictures by breaking down the image into a series of lines and generates a signal for display and recording | Video Camera |
A person skilled in the art or practice of making video shows or movies with a video camera | Videographer |
A camcorder adjustment in which the videowgrapher adjusts the color responses of the camera by showing the camcorder the color "white" under the current lighting conditions or selecting the icon on the display that best describes the lighting situation. | White Balance |
The ability to bring an object closer or move away from an object | Zooming |
Ratio of width to height in the dimensions of a frame | Aspect Ratio |
Process whereby overlay cards display video on the screen and one of the colors becomes transparent; any place the transparent color appears, you see the video input | Chroma Key |
Compression/decompression programs used to reduce the size of files | Codec |
Two adjacent video clips with no transition; on clip is immediately replaced with another | Cuts |
Setting length of a clip/image | Duration |
A dissolve to or from a background color (often black) | Fading |
A single still image in a video or animation | Frame |
The speed at which frames appear on a display, measured by frames per second | Frame Rate |
Also referred to as resolution, expressed by the horizontal and vertical dimensions, in pixels, of a frame | Frame Size |
How many fromes display in one second | Frames per Second |
To bring information into a computer or computer program | Import |
Editing in a sequential order | Linear Editing |
The Standard broadcast system used in the United States and Japan | National Television Standard Committee (NTSC) |
Not editing in a sequential order | Nonlinear Editing |
The standard broadcst system used in Europe and Australia | Phase Alternation Line (PAL) |
Creating and Editing Video | Production |
Cable that usually has a yellow, red, and white plug that is used to connect a camcorder to a VCR, DVD, or capture card on a computer | RCA cable |
To build a preview or project | Render |
Manual Preview | Scrubbing |
Layering images or video | Superimpose |
Part of video editing window that displays tracks | Timeline |
Adding words to a video | Title |
Special effects, such as fade in and fade out, that can be set to occur between frams in an animation | Transition |
The process of transferring video to the computer | Video Capture |
Making changes to taped footage | Video Editing |
A strip of magnetic media- usually consisting of plastic/mylar base, a layer of metallic particles, and a bonding agent- onto which video and audio signals can be recorded | Video Home System (VHS) tape |
A voice track over music or video | Voice Overlay |
A simulation of movement or the perception of motion created by the rapid display of a series of still images | Animation |
A single still image in a video or animation | Frame |
A type of animation that is based on the changes that occur from one frame to another; sometimes known as cel animation | Frame Animation |
Repeating a function until a certain condition is met | Looping |
Animation technique in which one image is transformed into another image | Morphing |
The final step in creating a 3-D animation that involves giving objects attributes such as colors, surface textures, and degrees of transparency | Rendering |
Short for in-betweening, the process of generating intermediate frames between two images to give the appearance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image | Tweening |
Moves an object along a predetermined path on the screen; the path could be a straight line or it could include any number of curves; often the object does not change, although it might be resized or reshaped; also known as path animation | Vector Animation |
A special effect that results in distortion of an image | Warping |
The three-character filename extension for Microsoft Windows standard video format | Audio Video Interleave (AVI) |
Cable, also known as IEEE-1394, that carries digital video signals, which include audio, video, and control signals | Firewire |
A file format that provides frame-to-frame compression | Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) |
File Extension for a quicktime movie | MOV |
Final stages of video production | Postproduction |
A video format that records a high-quality video signal on an SVHS videocassette that carries at least 400 lines of resolution but is the same size and shape as a regular VHS videocassette | S-Video |
An external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 480 mbps (480 million bits per second) | Universal Serial Bus (USB) |
Video file format that can be viewed in Windows Media Player | Windows Media Video (WMV) |