Apple LiveType 2 - Manual (Page 146)

146 Glossary
postproduction The process of editing film or video after acquiring the footage.
QuickTime The Apple cross-platform multimedia technology. Widely used for
CD-ROM, web video, editing, and more.
RAID Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. A method of providing
nonlinear editors with many gigabytes of high-performance data storage by teaming
together a group of slower, smaller, cheaper hard disks.
RAM Acronym for random-access memory. Your computer’s memory capacity,
measured in bytes, which determines the amount of data the computer can process
and temporarily store at any moment.
render In LiveType, the process of combining project elements with any applied
effects, one frame at a time. Once rendered, your titling sequence can be played in real
time.
RGB Abbreviation for Red Green Blue. A color space commonly used on computers.
Each color is described by the strength of its red, green, and blue components. This
color space directly translates to the red, green, and blue phosphors used in computer
monitors. The RGB color space has a very large gamut, meaning it can reproduce a very
wide range of colors.
SECAM Acronym for Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire. The French television standard
for playback. Similar to PAL, the playback rate is 25 fps.
sequencing An effect treatment in which each glyph on a track is transformed
individually. A sequenced effect starts by transforming one character, then moves to
the adjacent character, and so on.
texture In LiveType, textures are full-screen animations, useful as backgrounds, texture
mattes, or borders.
TIFF Acronym for Tagged Image File Format. A widely used bitmapped graphics file
format, developed by Aldus and Microsoft, that handles monochrome, grayscale, 8- and
24-bit color.
timecode A method of associating each frame of film or video in a clip with a unique,
sequential unit of time. The format is hours:minutes:seconds:frames.
Timeline One of the four main windows in the LiveType interface, which shows the
timing of project elements and the effects applied to them.
title safe area The part of the video image that is guaranteed to be visible on all
televisions. The title safe area is 80 percent of the screen.