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Alejandro Guajardo Garza A01039846
video |
a series of static images that simulate movement. |
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vitaphone |
a system of sound on disc developed by the Bell Telephone Company and Western Electric. It was used as a match in silent movies to give an environment context and narration to the stories. |
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movitone |
a system of sound recording created in 1922 by Theodore Case and Earl Sponable; it integrated the sound to the images |
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Beta |
an analogic format to produce home videos. It consisted of a magnetic tape developed by Sony. |
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VHS |
Stands for Video Home System. It was similar to an audio cassette with 1/2 inch tape. It was highly accepted for around 20 years before the appearance of DVDs. |
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flash memory |
an EEPROM type memory (Electronically Erasable and Programmable Read Only Memory). |
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DVD |
It stands for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc. It replaced the Beta technology in recording and distributing video material. Its recording process is based on the use of laser instead of electromagnetism. This provides more quality in both audio and video. |
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retinal persistence |
It is the effect in the eye’s retina that makes the images perceived by the eye be recorded for a very small fraction of time |
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FPS |
It stands for Frames per second. It is the amount of frames that are shown on a video in a period of one second. |
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PAL |
It stands for Phase Alternating Line which consists on the using of 25 frames per second. |
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NTSC |
It stands for National Television System Committee. It consists on using 30 frames per second to create video, including an aspect ratio of 4:3 and an optimum handling of sound. |
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SECAM |
(Séquentiel Couleur à Mémoire) It is similar to PAL, but it is less known. It was created in France, so it is more used in Europe |
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EDTV |
(Enhanced Definition Television) It has SDTV (Standard Definition Television) technology, and it can display between 480 and 576 lines in the PAL or NTSC frequencies. |
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HDTV |
(High Definition Television) It works with three resolutions: 720p, 1080i and 1080p; it has the ability to be converted as needed in order to commute among them. |
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blu-ray |
refers to the technology based on a blue beam that allows the recording of different layers of a DVD, especially designed for high density recording. |
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HD-DVD |
stands for High Definition Digital Video Disk. It was supported by Toshiba as a better alternative to DVD since it allowed a storing of 15 GB in each one of its layers. |
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codec |
Coder-decoder. It is software that consists on an algorithm to compress and decompress video in real time. |
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AVI |
(Audio Video Interleave) It is one of the standard formats to store digital video in different platforms. |
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divX |
a codec that can be used in Windows and MacOs platforms to create MPEG-4 standards. |
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XviD |
compression algorithm, developed by free programmers. It does not represent any loss of information. |
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MPEG |
(Moving Picture Experts Group) It is a format that is considered standard to compress digital video. The extensions of the files under this format are .MPG or .MPEG. |
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WOV |
(Movie) It uses Apple’s own codec, which handles the color palette of this platform optimally. This type of files may also have the .QT extension, which is for the Quick Time app. |
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WMV |
(Windows Media Video) This format was designed by Microsoft. It is based on the MPEG-4 codec to compress the video. |
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RM |
(Real Media) It is the format of Real Networks for video files. It is based on its own codec to compress the audio, and it has an extension. |
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FLV |
Flash video) This format is based on the Sorenson Spark and On2 VP6 codecs. Both allow a high visual quality no matter if the user has a high downloading speed in his devices. |
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VOB |
(Video Object) It is the format that contains video, audio and subtitles. |
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3GP |
(Third Generation Partnership) It is used on mobile devices such as 3G telephones. |
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script |
The written text of a play (or in these cases, videos). |
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scene |
the smallest unit to measure events in a story in a determined time and place. |
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dialog |
a conversation that happens between two or more individuals that present their ideas in an alternative way. |
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plot twist |
It refers to the moments of a story or script in which the story goes through heavy changes. |
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storyboard |
a group of images with notes, like a graphic mind map in which the images are presented in sequence. Its purpose is to visualize a movie, an animation, a videogame, etc. |
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frame |
They are browsing elements that create divisions in a browsing window to observe different documents at the same time. |
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perspective |
It refers to the non-parallel lines that are stretched in a work until they reach an imaginary point called the vanishing point. |
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framing |
It is an image that is seen through a camera viewer. |
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shooting |
The recording of something. |
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editing |
The art of preparing or manipulating motion in video (deleting, arranging, adding effects, etc.) |
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conversation |
Something converted from one use to another. |
