Special Effects
What is a lower third?
A device that connects several video sources in order to have a single output.
Editing platform where the order of the edits can be easily changed.
The relationship of width x height of a screen (TV, computer, film).
What is aspect ratio?
A squeal sound heard when a microphone is placed too close to a speaker.
What is feedback?
An effect that operates when specific colors is blocked from the camera's input, allowing another image in its place.
What is chromakey?
The person who operates the video switcher
Who is the technical director?
The system of assigning each frame of video a specific number, usually sequentially.
What is time code?
When text moves up or down on the screen.
What is a roll?
A thin surface inside a microphone that vibrates when hit by sound waves.
The color portion of the video signal that includes hue and saturation.
What is chrominance?
Equipment like a switcher that adds effects to video.
What is a special effects generator?
The act of adding all of the footage to the computer or hard drive for editing.
What is capturing?
The measure of brightness or lightness of a video image?
What is luminance?
How is natural sound distinguished from background sound?
What is sound that is important to the story.
Special effects in a switcher that alters or manipulates the image.
What is DVE (Digital Video Effect)?
A row of buttons on the control panel of a special effects generator.
What is a bus?
An organizing system for clips to be used in a project.
What is a bin?
The area that can be seen on any size TV set and includes all words in the graphic.
What is the essential area (aka Title Safe)?
An inexpensive microphone of lesser quality and limited to cable lengths shorter than 8 feet.
What is high impedance?
A transition favored by George Lucas in Star Wars IV: A New Hope.
What is a wipe?
What is a fader bar?
An edit where a cut is made where one shot fades to black and the other shot is fading in.
What is a kiss black or edit through black.
When the brightness or the darkness of the shot exceeds the contrast ratio- it is said to have
This controls the signal coming into the mixer from an audio source.
What is a potentiometer?