Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1940)

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favorite A customized effect that is used frequently. You can create favorites from most
of the effects in Final Cut Pro.
field Half of an interlaced video frame consisting of the odd or the even scan lines.
Alternating video fields are drawn every 1/60th of a second in NTSC video to create the
perceived 30 fps video. There are two fields for every frame, an upper field and a
lower field.
filters Effects you can apply to video or audio clip items. Filters affect the visual or aural
quality of the clip to which they’re applied. For example, a video filter might change
the colors of your image, while an audio filter might add some reverberance, making
actors sound as if they’re in a huge space. In addition to using the filters that come
with Final Cut Pro, you can use third-party filters.
finishing The process of reassembling the clips used in the final edit of a program at
their highest quality. Finishing may involve recapturing offline resolution clips at full
resolution, rerendering effects, then outputting the final program to tape. Finishing may
also involve extra steps that were not taken in the offline edit, such as color correction.
finishing on tape The process of using the EDL from an offline edit to reassemble a
sequence from the original source tapes in an online tape-to-tape editing suite.
FireWire The trademarked Apple name for the IEEE 1394 standard. A fast and versatile
interface used to connect DV camcorders to computers. FireWire is well suited to
applications that move large amounts of data, and can also be used to connect hard
disks, scanners, and other kinds of computer peripherals.
fit to fill edit An edit in which a clip’s speed is adjusted to fit a specified duration
in a sequence.
flesh tone A special marker in the Final Cut Pro Vectorscope that indicates an area of
appropriate range for all shades of skin color. When calibrating a tape’s color in
preparation for capture or when using one of the color corrector tapes, the flesh tone
marker can be used as a guide for adjusting the hue in order to make sure the skin
tones look correct.
frame A single still image. Film and video are made up of a series of these images.
While a film frame is a single photographic image, an interlaced video frame contains
two fields.
frame blending A process of visually averaging frames together over time to create
smoother motion. This is often useful when playing back clips in slow motion, to
smooth otherwise jerky motion.