Abbreviations
What does CU stand for?
Close-Up
Dailies
What is the 2nd to last stage within the filmmaking process?
Post-Production
What Adobe software is used for editing Audio?
Adobe Audition
Gamma is the measurement of the level of what in an image?
Midtones
What does ADR stand for?
Automatic Dialogue Replacement
What is the process of maintaining consistency of plot, characters, time, objects, places and events of the story?
What is the act of processing and transcoding data while editing?
Render
It "sounds" like it should be in this category but it is the extra information in a video signal that is caused by either under or over exposure.
Noise
What are the 5 basic steps of editing?
logging/organizing, assembly, rough cut, fine cut and final cut
What does EDL stand for?
Edit Decisions List
What is the process of combining visual elements from separate sources into single images, usually done through the method of green-screen, and most recently using "virtual sets" that are replaced by computer graphics programs?
Chroma Keying/Compositing
Ingesting
Recording dialogue in a studio after filming to replace the initial recorded lines is called what?
Additional Dialogue Replacement
What is grain in film?
A term which comes from shooting on film — it's the light-sensitive material in the film's emulsion that creates a look of texture on screen.
What does EDR stand for?
Electronic News Gathering
What is a measurement of midtones?
Gamma
What is the process through which a movie is made available by a film distributor or via other methods.
Distribution
What is a temp track?
An existing piece or music or audio used during the editing phase.
What is the difference between interlaced and progressive?
Interlaced video pixels of every other row of pixels in the image are changed at each screen, while progressive video pixels of every line or row in the image is updated at each screen refresh or frame.
RGB
The point in editing where no further changes will be made to the timecode of the picture is called?
The amount of time it will take to process all of your digital files.
What is playback music?
Music used in scenes in the actual movie.
What analog color-encoding video system is used in North America?
NTSC (National Television Systems Committee)