tagged image file format (TIFF) -

An easily transportable image file type used by a wide range of multimedia software.

During the shoot in videotaping, each separate attempt at shooting a scene. This is expressed as: Scene 1, Take 1; Scene 1, Take 2, and so on.

On-screen person (professional or amateur) who appears before the camera or does voice-over narration.

Telephone answering machine.

An instance which receives a message but does not forward it because it is the final instance in a chain of processing. For example, a hardware node is a target node because when it receives a message, it sends it to another device driver, and not to another instance. (RTMIDI-specific term)

Refers to when video is displaced horizontally. This may be caused by sync problems.

A special monitor mounted in front of a camera so that talent can read text and will appear to be looking at the camera.

See unfreeze.

A small representation of an object. For example, a full screen image might be presented in a much smaller area in an authoring system time line. A picon is an example of a thumbnail.

Tagged Image File Format time code.

A camera movement where the camera pivots up or down on its stationary tripod.

The distinctive tone of a musical instrument or human voice that distinguishes it from other sounds.

See SMPTE time code.

A type of authoring facility that displays an event as elements that represent time from the start of the event.

See hue.

A time format expressed in tracks, minutes, seconds, and frames, which is used primarily by compact disc audio devices.

A control that adjusts the various attributes of the audio.

A palette containing choices that represent tools, often used in media editors (such as graphics and audio editors). For example, a user might select a "pencil" choice from the tool palette to draw a line in the window.

(1) An area of a display screen that is activated to accept user input. (2) Synonymous with anchor, hot spot, and trigger.

A path associated with a single Read/Write head as the data medium moves past it.

To advance the medium to the beginning of the next track.

To rewind the medium to the beginning of the current track. If it is at the beginning of the track it will then jump to the beginning of the previous track.

A device that modifies a signal or stream received from a transport device. Examples are amplifier-mixer and overlay devices.

A computer program that can translate. In telephone equipment the device that converts dialed digits into call-routine information.

Refers to when a selected color on a graphics screen is made transparent to allow the video "behind it" to become visible. Often found in dual plane video subsystems.

Video information is considered as being present on the video plane which is maintained behind the graphics plane. When an area on the graphics plane is painted with a transparent color, the video information in the video plane is made visible. See also dual plane video system.

A device that plays, records, and positions a media element, and either presents the result directly or sends the material to a transform device. Examples are videodisc players, CD-ROMs, and digital audio (wave) player.

A detailed design document of the video.

A vibrating effect of a musical instrument produced by small and rapid amplitude variations to produce special musical effects.

(1) An area of a display screen that is activated to accept user input. (2) Synonymous with anchor, hot spot, and touch area.

In videotaping, a sideways camera movement of the tripod on which the camera is mounted.

(1) The process of having the computer draw intermediate animation frames between key frames. In other words, the animation tool requires only that pictures of key sections of a motion be provided; the software calculates all the in-between movements. (2) Synonym for in-betweening.