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Archival Disc
Optical Disc Storage Format
motion interpolation
form of video processing
matte box
camera accessory for controlling lens glare
vertical video
video with portrait orientation
XAVC
XAVC is a recording format that was introduced by Sony on October 30, 2012. It is licensed to companies that want to make XAVC products.
Production control room
part of a television studio
greeble
thumb|A visual effects model of a ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind featuring extensive greebling
Greebles, also called greeblies (singular: greebly) or nurnies, are small relief details used to give visual complexity to a model. The act of decorating a model with greebles is known as greebling. While greebling originated as a technique in filmmaking, it is commonly used in model-making, toy design, and kitbashing.
inflatable movie screen
inflatable apparatus for displaying a projected image
video production
process of producing video content
film still
photograph taken on or off the set of a movie or television program during production
SnorriCam
A SnorriCam (also chestcam, body mount/bodymount, or bodycam) is a camera device used in filmmaking that is rigged to the body of the actor, with the camera facing the actor directly so that they appear in a fixed position in the center of the frame. A SnorriCam presents a dynamic, disorienting point of view from the actor's perspective, providing an unusual sense of vertigo for the viewer.
Sensurround
thumb|Sensurround speaker diagram, with the extra speakers shown in white (Center, Surround Left and Surround Right)
thumb|Sensurround logo (designed for the release of the film Earthquake).
Sensurround is the brand name for a process created by MCA and developed by Cerwin-Vega in conjunction with Universal Studios to enhance the audio experience during film screenings, specifically for the 1974 film Earthquake. The process was intended for subsequent use and was adopted for four more films, Midway (1976), Rollercoaster (1977), the theatrical version of Saga of a Star World (1978), the Battles
video content analysis
capability of automatically analyzing video to detect and determine temporal and spatial events
Smell-O-Vision
Smell-O-Vision is a system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie. Created by Hans Laube, the technique made its only appearance in the 1960 film Scent of Mystery, produced by Mike Todd Jr., son of film producer Mike Todd. The process injected 30 odors into a movie theater's seats when triggered by the film's soundtrack.
Linear video editing
conventional video editing using magnetic tape, replaced technology
Cinecolor
thumb|upright=1.5|Scene from Poor Cinderella (1934) by [[Fleischer Studios, an animated short which makes use of Cinecolor]]
Cinecolor was an early subtractive color-model two-color motion picture process that was based upon the Prizma system of the 1910s and 1920s and the Multicolor system of the late 1920s and the 1930s. It was developed by William T. Crispinel and Alan M. Gundelfinger, and its various formats were in use from 1932 to 1955.
Metrocolor
Metrocolor is the trade name used by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) for films processed at their laboratory. Virtually all of these films were shot on Kodak's Eastmancolor film.
Aeroscope
thumb|right|250px|Aeroscope (1910)
thumb|250px|Geoffrey Malins with aeroscope camera during [[World War I]]
Aeroscope, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aḗr), meaning "air", and σκοπέω (skopéō), meaning "to look", was a type of compressed air camera for making films, constructed by Polish inventor Kazimierz Prószyński in 1909 (French patent from 10 April 1909) and built in England since 1911, at first by Newman & Sinclair, and from 1912 by Cherry Kearton Limited.
T-mount
The T-mount is a standard lens mount for cameras and other optical assemblies. The usual T-mount is a screw mount using a male 42×0.75 (42 mm diameter, 0.75 mm thread pitch) metric thread on the lens with a flange focal distance of 55 mm and a mating female 42mm thread on a camera adapter or other optical component. This thread form is referred to as T-thread. (This should not be confused with the M42 lens mount which is also 42 mm diameter, but has a 1 mm thread pitch. The T-thread is sometimes described as "M42×0.75," which is the usual manner in which to describe a
PDTV
PDTV is an abbreviation short for Pure Digital Television. Often seen as part of the filename of TV shows shared through P2P, The Scene, and FTP servers on the Internet. In this case, PDTV refers not to container, bitrate or dimensions of the video, but the digital nature of the capture source. Non Scene European rippers often use the label DVBRip or DVB-rip to specify a purely digital rip of a Digital Video Broadcast (DVB), however all Scene groups use standardized labeling.
film gauge
width of photographic or motion picture film
one-shot film
genre of full-length movies filmed (actually or apparently) in a single shot
D6 HDTV VTR
magnetic tape-based videocassette format
rough cut
first cut of a film
cue mark
visual indicator on motion picture films
Showscan
Showscan is a cinematic process developed by Douglas Trumbull that uses 70mm film photographed and projected at 60 frames per second, 2.5 times the standard speed of movie film.
follow focus
camera focus control mechanism
split screen
filmmaking technique
Windowbox
often undesirable combination of letterboxing and pillarboxing
Optoma Corporation
Optoma () is a Taiwanese projector brand. Its primary products are projectors and digital image processing equipment. Founded in 2002, it is a subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics and manufacturing company Coretronic. It was listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 2007. With 8% of the projector global market share in 2011, the Optoma brand was the second largest projector brand, behind Epson. By 2011, it had sold the most Digital Light Processing (DLP) projectors internationally for four years.
Gorgon Stare
video capture technology system
Theatrograph
350px|thumb|Animatograph in Rossio, [[Lisbon]]
The Theatrograph is the first commercially produced 35mm film projector in Britain. It was first demonstrated by R.W. Paul at Finsbury Technical College on February 20, 1896. The use of Paul's Theatrograph in music halls up and down the country popularised early cinema in Britain. It was first revealed to the public at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.
C mount
Type of camera lens mount
Scanimate
Scanimate is an analog computer animation (video synthesizer) system created by Lee Harrison III of Denver, Colorado. Harrison had developed its predecessor, ANIMAC, which generated used a motion capture system, based on a body suit with potentiometers. In contrast, Scanimate included TV technology. Scanimate's successor was called Caesar, and used a digital computer to control the analog system.
SMPTE 292M
digital video transmission line standard
Arriflex 35
trademark
Kinora
right|250px|thumb|A 1905 Kinora at Fotomuseum Antwerp
right|250px|thumb| "The Rinoral", also known as Kinora, collection Huis van Alijn
The Kinora was an early motion picture device developed by the French inventors Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1895, while simultaneously working on the Cinematograph. It was patented in February 1896.
relative luminance
ratiometric definition of luminance

television standards conversion
process of changing one type of television system to another
Nvidia Shadowplay
hardware-accelerated screen recording utility
flatbed editor
film-editing machine
crane shot
shot taken with a camera mounted on a crane in motion pictures
history of film technology
aspect of history
inter frame
video frame that a compression algorithm codes as a function of one or more of its neighbors
SMPTE 424M
serial digital interface for video transport
video search engine
type of search engine
SMPTE 259M
technical standard for transporting video
film base
Layer in photographic film
Fulldome
Fulldome refers to immersive dome-based video display environments. The dome, horizontal or tilted, is filled with real-time (interactive) or pre-rendered (linear) computer animations, live capture images, or composited environments.
edit decision list
used in the process of film editing and video editing
web film
a film made with the medium of the Internet
ATSC 3.0
television broadcasting standard used in North America and South Korea
silver screen
projection screen
6K resolution
Display format
Waveform monitor
type of oscilloscope used in television production applications
miniature effect
special effect created for motion pictures and television programs using scale models
Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion
full reference method for predicting the perceived quality of videos
film recorder
graphical output device for transferring digital images to photographic film
Sync sound
sound recorded at the time of the filming of movies
Photokinema
Photo-Kinema (some sources say Phono-Kinema) was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum.