Terminology
Altering the color in an image in order to ensure proper display on-screen with the ultimate goal of enhancing the overall viewing experience.
What is Color Correction?
This Adobe program can be used in tandem with Premiere, allowing ADVANCED manipulation of FX, 3D control, and much more.
What is Adobe After Effects?
Key that bring up the Audio Gain options.
What is the "G" key?
In video, this refers to the height x width of the image, in pixels.
What is Resolution?
The area of the screen where it is common to see graphical nameplates or other text information.
What is a Lower Third?
The shortcut key that ZOOMS your timeline out to show everything!
What is the "backslash" key? - " \ "
The amount of color information within a file. This can refer to total amount within the file, or the individual RGB channels within the file.
What is Bit Depth? (8bit, 10bit, 12bit, 16bit, 24bit, 32bit)
The process of making data files smaller, with the goal of maintaining the highest quality.
What is Compression?
This is just as important as video and often overlooked or neglected by rookie editors. It is "half the picture"
What is Audio?
People accept bad video, but are instantly turned away by bad audio.
This is the shortcut key for the Rolling Edit Tool. This allows you to move one clips Out Point, and the next clips In Point at the same time to change the timing of a cut.
What is the "N" key?
An algorithm for the data rate and quality of video and/or audio. It determines the way data is compressed, which in turn, determines the quality and size of a video file.
What is a Codec?
This is the process of moving a set of clips from one sequence into new sequence, leaving the new sequence embedded in your original sequence.
What is Nesting/PreComp
These are preset window placements for various styles of editing, and can be easily customized for individual editors preferred placements.
What are Workspaces?
______ _____ is the NUMBER of images being recorded in a given second, and _____ ____ is how fast the shutter opens/closes for each IMAGE.
What is Frame Rate and Shutter Speed?
This is what a codec rests within, such as MOV, AVI, MP4, and MXF files.
What is a Container (or wrapper/shell)?
These tools provide an exact graphical representation of what makes up your image, from color saturation to light intensity.
What are Video Scopes?
These are the names of TWO of the video scopes, used in Premiere.
What is Waveform Monitor, Vectorscope, RGB Parade, or Histogram?
This color subsampling format provides full luminance value in all pixels, but in every other pixel it's Chroma value is duplicated, providing half of the chroma value of uncompressed video.
What is 4:2:2 ?
This is Match Frame.
Key that pulls up in the source monitor the source clip and exact frame the playhead is parked on within a selected clip in the timeline.
What is the "f" key?
A video channel that specifies the opacity of certain areas of an image. Video files that contain this channel are said to be "pre-keyed", common with lower thirds.
What is an Alpha Channel?