Key Terms
Action Safe
Alpha Channel
Audio Sweetening
Audio Track
Chroma Key
Clip
Color Correction
Compositing
Cut
Cutaway
Dissolve
Effect
Fade
Freeze Frame
IN and OUT Points
Jump Cut
Keying
Log and Capture
Matte
Mixing
Nonlinear Editing (NLE)
Playhead
Render
Rough Cut
Scratch Disk
Scrubbing
Slug
Sound Effects (SFX)
Split Edit
Three-Point Editing
Timecode
Timeline
Title
Title Safe
Transition
Video Track
Voiceover (VO)
As we get newer and better compression algorithms for video and still-frame images, we’ll approach the next major leap in desktop computing: video on the desktop.
—John C. Dvorak, technology journalist and radio broadcaster (1995)
Chapter Highlights
This chapter examines:
- The use of nonlinear ...
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