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video

Series of static images that simulate movement

vitaphone

Audio and video synchronized. The recording of both sources done separately.

movietone

Record video and audio at the same time.

beta

Analogic format to produce home videos. It consisted of a magnetic tape developed by Sony. It has the capacity of storing 266 to 300 lines depending if it was black and white or color. It recorded around 2 hours.

VHS

Video Home System. Similar to an audio cassette with ½ inch tape.

flash memory

EEPROM type memory. Created in 1984 by Fujio Masuoka. Quick, silent and easy to carry. Some have the shape of a pen, a bar, a camera cards, etc.

DVD

Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disk. It replaced the Beta technology in recording and distributing video material. Its recording process is based on laser instead of electromagnetism. This provides more quality in audio and video.

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, like a tenth like a tenth of a second.

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.

PAL

It stands for Phase Alternating Line which consists on the using of 25 frames per second. It is used in Europe, Asia, and some countries of America.

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.

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, and it has an optimum handling of color.

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.

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. There are two possible values for the handling of the different resolutions: “p” or “i”.

blu-ray

Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition video resolution

HD DVD

HD DVD is a discontinued high-density optical disc format for storing data and high-definition video

codec

A device or program that compresses data to enable faster transmission and decompresses received data

AVI

Audio Video Interleaved, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft as part of its Video for Windows software. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback.

dIvX

DivX was the first video codec for the Windows AVI container format that provided strong compression along with good picture quality.

Xvid

Xvid is a primary competitor of the DivX Pro Codec. In contrast with the DivX codec, which is proprietary software developed by DivX, Inc., Xvid is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

MPEG

Moving Picture Experts Group develops standards for digital video and digital audio compression It operates under the auspic.

MOV

An MOV file is an Apple QuickTime Movie, developed by Apple. Learn what Mac, Windows, and Linux programs can open .MOV files.

WMV

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a file type which can contain video in one of several video compression formats developed by Microsoft .

RM

is a basic UNIX command used to remove objects such as files, directories, device nodes, symbolic links, and so on from the filesystem.

FLV

FLV is a file format used by Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR to store and deliver synchronized audio and video streams over the Internet.

VOB

VOB (Video Object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. VOBcan contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted.

3GP

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It is used on 3G mobile phones but can also be played on some 2G and 4G phones.

script

a script is a list of commands that can be executed without user interaction. A script language is a simple programming language with which you can write scripts.

scene

scene is the smallest unit to measure events in a story in a determined time and place.

dialog

is a conversation that happens between two or more individuals that present their ideas in an alternative way.

plot twist

It refers to the moments of a story or script in which the story goes through heavy changes.

storyboard

A storyboard is a group of images with notes, like a graphic mind map in which the images are presented in sequence.

frame

They are browsing elements that create divisions in a browsing window to observe different documents at the same time.

perspective

It refers to the non-parallel lines that are stretched in a work until they reach an imaginary point called the vanishing point.

framing

It is an image that is seen through a camera viewer

shooting

It is when all the pre-production details have been arranged and solved.

editing

prepare (written material) for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it.

conversion

change format of the video.