Video Editing
Video editing equipment that is based on digital technology and uses high-capacity computer hard drives to store and process video and audio
Non-linear editing (NLE) system
Set of laws that protect the creators of original materials from having their materials and creative work used without proper permission and compensation.
Copyright law
A television advertisement for a product or service
Ad or Spot
A common lighting technique that uses three lighting instruments for each person or object photographed.
Three-point lighting
A program format that presents a group of people gathered to discuss topics and interest.
Panel Discussion
The way in which one scene is edited to end and the next scene is edited to begin
Edit transition
A doctrine of the copyright law that provides guidelines for the limited use of copyrighted materials without obtaining permission from the copyright holder.
Fair use
Television that aims to inform the public about various topics. This supports classroom studies and replays classroom sessions
Educational television
Fully movable black metal flaps attached to the front of a lighting instrument
Barndoors
A program that is 30 or 60 seconds in length and aims to inform the public or to convince the public to do something in the interest of common good.
Public Service Announcement (PSA)
A type edit in which a similar action, concept, item, or a combination of these is placed on either side of a cut
Matched cut
A document that gives video producers permission to photograph the talent and/or to use audio of the talents voice.
Talent release
A corporation that bundles a collection of programs (sports,, news, and entertainment) and makes the bundles available exclusively to its affiliates.
Network
Type of hard light instrument that creates a circle of light in varying diameters.
Spotlight
A type of music video in which the audience sees the band perform the music that is heard.
Concert style
A folder on a non-linear editing computer that contains all of the captured footage for a program.
Bin
Property that is owned by an individual or private organization.
Private property
An unmanned, radio-controlled flying device on which a camera can be mounted in order to get affordable aerial images.
Drone
The temperature of white light
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A program format that essentially a research paper for television.
Documentary
Converting footage from a format that is not supported by the NLE system to a format that is.
Transcoding
A grant of permission that is commonly provided in written form with signatures of all the people involved.
Release
Fee-for-service programming where customers pay scheduled fees based on the selected programming package.
Subscriber television
Type of illumination used in a studio that creates indistinct shadows.
Soft light
A program format that provides action and makes use of props in addition to lecture.
Lecture/Demonstration