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digital cinema
use of digital technology to distribute or project motion pictures as opposed to the historical use of reels of motion picture film
VP9
VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google.
digital video
type of digital recording system that works by using a digital rather than an analog video signal
U-matic
-inch Type E Helical Scan or SMPTE E is an analog recording videocassette format marketed by Sony Electronics Corporation, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) and Victor Co. of Japan (JVC). It was initially developed by Sony and shown as a prototype in October 1969, refined and standardized among the three manufacturers in March 1970, and introduced commercially in September 1971 by Sony. The format was branded U-matic by Sony, U-Vision by Panasonic and U-VCR by JVC, referring to the U-shaped tape path as it threads around the video drum.
high-definition video
video of higher resolution than original television
matte painting
painted representation of a location to create the illusion of an environment that is not present at the filming location
Cinerama
thumb|Original Cinerama screen in the Bellevue Cinerama, Amsterdam (1965–2005) 17-meter curved screen removed in 1978 for 15-meter normal screen.
AV1
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. It was developed as a successor to VP9 by the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), a consortium founded in 2015 that includes semiconductor firms, video on demand providers, video content producers, software development companies and web browser vendors. The AV1 bitstream specification includes a reference video codec. In 2018, Facebook re-encoded 400 compressed Facebook videos with AV1, VP9, and x264 and found AV1 delivered around 34% lower bitrates than VP9 and about
stroboscopic effect
visual phenomenon
Veo
text-to-video model by Google
film format
standardized set of characteristics for photographic film
motion graphics
digital footage or animation which create the illusion of motion or rotation
forward looking infrared
type of thermographic camera
cropping
to remove unwanted outer parts of an image
professional video camera
high-end device for creating electronic moving images
Telecine
right|thumb|250px|Spirit DataCine 4K with the doors open
2K resolution
display devices or content having horizontal resolution of approximately 2,000 pixels
peak signal-to-noise ratio
metric used to measure picture quality
glitch art
practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes
letterboxing
video formatting effect
production truck
mobile audio and video control room
optical printer
device with one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera
Pitivi
Pitivi (originally spelled PiTiVi) is a free and open-source non-linear video editor for Linux, developed by various contributors from free software community and the GNOME project, with support also available from Collabora. Pitivi is designed to be the default video editing software for the GNOME desktop environment. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
digital cinematography
digital image capture for film
anamorphic format
cinematography technique
Barco
Belgian technology company
Material Exchange Format
Object-based file format that wraps video, audio, and other bitstreams
Spidercam
thumb|Spidercam Light 3D cable cam system with Newton stabilized camera head. Enabled a flying TV camera at Beyoncé & [[Jay-Z's On the Run II Tour in 2018.]]
chrominance
thumb|Luminance only, Chrominance only, and full color image. Chrominance (chroma or C for short) is the signal used in video systems to convey the color information of the picture (see YUV color model), separately from the accompanying luma signal (or Y' for short). Chrominance is usually represented as two color-difference components: U = B′ − Y′ (blue − luma) and V = R′ − Y′ (red − luma). Each of these different components may have scale factors and offsets applied to it, as specified by the applicable video standard.
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
association of engineers and technologists in media and entertainment
chroma subsampling
encoding images using a lower resolution for chroma channels
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short films made by Warner Bros. Pictures and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one that was widely used and commercially successful. The soundtrack is not printed on the film, but issued separately on phonograph records. The discs, recorded at  rpm (a speed first used for this system) and typically in diameter, are played on a turntable physically coupled to the projector motor while the film is projected. Its frequency response
Bolex
thumb|right|Usine Bol, Geneva, Switzerland
Nice Ltd
NiCE is an American technology company specializing in customer relations management software (NiCE CXone), artificial intelligence, and digital and workforce engagement management.
Adobe Captivate
screencast tool
vision mixer
electronic device for selecting and compositing of video sources
transcoding
Transcoding is the direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another, such as for video data files, audio files (e.g., MP3, WAV), or character encoding (e.g., UTF-8, ISO/IEC 8859). This is usually done in cases where a target device (or workflow) does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size, or to convert incompatible or obsolete data to a better-supported or modern format.
FreeSync
the brand name for an adaptive synchronization technology
Kinemacolor
thumb|A frame from George Albert Smith's early colour film Two Clowns () Kinemacolor was the first commercially successful colour motion picture process. Used commercially from 1909 to 1915, it was invented by George Albert Smith in 1906. It was a two-colour additive colour process, photographing a black-and-white film behind alternating red/orange and blue/green filters and projecting them through red and green filters. It was demonstrated several times in 1908 and first shown to the public in 1909. From 1909 on, the process was known and trademarked as Kinemacolor and was marketed by Charles
film colorization
Film Photo colorisation
screen tearing
video display artefact
Audio Engineering Society
organization of professional audio engineers
opening credits
names of actors and producers shown at the beginning of a creative work
Ikegami Tsushinki
manufacturer of television equipment
news ticker
electronic strip of alphanumeric information describing news events, sports scores, business and civic closings, or weather and health warnings
360-degree video
video recording where a view in every direction is recorded at the same time
Bioscop
thumb|Bioskop|200px The Bioscop is a movie projector developed in 1895 by German inventors and filmmakers Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil Skladanowsky (1866–1945).
low-angle shot
camera angle
videography
alt=|thumb|A videographer using a Digital single-lens reflex camera|DSLR camera mounted on a shoulder rig thumb|U.S. Air Force [[Airman Daniel Johnson performs a function check on his video camera before shooting.]]
non-linear editing system
form of audio, video, or image editing only possible with computer technology; succeeding technology of linear editing
instant replay
video reproduction of an earlier live occurrence during an event
Movietone sound system
sound film system
telesync
A telesync (TS) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater, often (although not always) filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth. The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater). If a direct connection from the sound source is not possible, sometimes the bootlegger will tape or conceal wireless microphones close to the speakers, as it is better than a mic on the camera. A TS can be considered a higher quality type of cam, that has
pillarbox
thumb|right|300px|Pillarboxed image, picture taken at 4:3 aspect ratio and displayed on a 16:9 monitor The pillarbox effect occurs in widescreen video displays when black bars (mattes or masking) are placed on the sides of the image. It becomes necessary when film or video that was not originally designed for widescreen is shown on a widescreen display, or a narrower widescreen image is displayed within a wider aspect ratio, such as a 16:9 image in a 2.39:1 frame (common in cinemas). The original material is shrunk and placed in the middle of the widescreen frame.
Moviola
thumb|right thumb|Moviola Model D (1927) with a microscope attachment (left) by Gaertner Scientific Corporation from 1940 A Moviola () is a device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing. It was the first machine for motion picture editing when it was invented by Iwan Serrurier in 1924.
ProRes 422
video compression format developed by Apple
pirated movie release types
types of pirated movies on Internet
video essay
essay, lecture or criticism from a particular point of view in a video/film/tv format
color grading
enhancing the color of a motion picture, video image, or still image
Digital Cinema Package
collection of digital files used to store and convey digital cinema audio, image, and data streams