THE SOUND OF MUSIC
This piece of music serves as the bed for intro and/or outro of a podcast. It features, with very few exceptions, in every episode. It is a key part of a show's 'sonic identity'.
What is a Theme?
Air conditioners, electrical interference, and other unwanted sounds in a recording are examples of this.
What is Noise?
Before it is cut, arranged, or polished in post-production, recorded video is known by this term.
What is Footage?
This on-screen text reflects what’s being said.
What are Captions?
This refers to the process of creating the final video file.
What is Rendering/Exporting?
When music is playing, unaccompanied, to bridge a gap between different sections, tones, elements, etc within an episode. This is sometimes referred to as an interlude.
What is a Transition?
Colloquially known as 'echo' - this is the unwanted sound of a person's voice bouncing around their recording space.
What is Reverb?
This refers to supplemental footage that illustrates or adds context to the A-Roll (scenes, cutaways, environment shots).
What is B-Roll?
The border, often around interview segments, which includes branded elements like the podcast's name, or client's logo, is known as this.
What is a Frame?
The mixing and polishing of audio. This is done after picture lock.
What is Mastering?
This music plays under what's being said.
What is a Bed?
This is used to describe the clicky, wet quality in a voice recording. Caused by saliva and fixed by green apples!
What are Mouth Noises?
These lower resolution versions of video files are used during editing to reduce strain on your computer.
What are Proxies?
A graphic effect that connects one video clip to the next, is known as this.
What is a Transition?
This term refers to when all the images, video, etc is locked down, and there will be no more changes to the timings of the video edit.
What is Picture Lock?
This term refers to moments when the music "does something" - often in between sections. Think transitions, tonal changes, or the starting or ending of a piece in the episode.
What is a Cue?
This refers to the distortion of a piece of audio when the volume level exceeds what the microphone can handle.
What is Clipping?
This process involves changing the brightness, saturation, colours, etc from a video recording to give a mood or style.
What is Colour Grading?
These are long texts that highlight a quote or key point.
What are Quote Cards?
This term refers to how clear or detailed a video looks.
What is Resolution?
This short musical moment is often created by cutting down a piece of music, that plays out, in it's entirety, before moving on. Often very short, and designed to sit largely on it's own.
What is a Sting?
Those distracting thumps, often caused by hard P's and B's in a recording, are known as these.
What are Plosives?
Cutting away from someone to hide an edit. This technique is often done by cutting to the interviewer/interviewee moving their head up and down in agreement.
What are Noddys?
Names, titles, information, source, etc given about a subject. This usually pops up in the lower-third of the screen, hence the name.
What are Lower Thirds?
This is the ratio of a video's width to its height.
What is an Aspect Ratio?