Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1953)

470 Glossary
Scrub Video tool A tool used to change the thumbnail of a clip displayed when the
Browser is in icon view.
SECAM (Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire) The French television standard for
playback. Similar to PAL, the playback rate is 25 fps and the frame size is 720 x 576.
sequence An arranged series of video, audio, and graphics clips, edit information, and
effects edited together to create a program. A sequence can contain your entire edited
program or be limited to a single scene. Sequences can also be edited into other
sequences, referred to as nested sequences.
sequence clip A clip that has been edited into a sequence. A sequence clip is typically
an affiliate clip. Compare to master clip.
Selection tool In Final Cut Pro, the default arrow-shaped pointer, which allows you to
select items in the interface. For example, you use it to select a clip or edit point. You
can choose the Selection tool by pressing the A key.
SGI An uncompressed image file format popular on the IRIX operating system on SGI
workstations. Stores images with millions of colors+. Can contain an alpha channel.
shortcut menu A menu you access by holding down the mouse button and the
Control key, or by pressing the right mouse button.
shot A segment of uninterrupted captured video. A shot is the smallest unit of a program.
shuffle edit An edit in which a clip is moved from one position in an edited sequence
to another by insertion. All clips between these two positions are moved to the left or
right to fill the space left by the clip you moved. The shuffled clips don’t change their
duration, so the overall duration of your sequence is not affected.
shuttle To drag the slider on the shuttle control to the right to fast-forward and to the
left to rewind. Playback speed varies depending on the distance of the slider from the
center of the control.
shuttle control The slider control located at the bottom of the Viewer and the Canvas.
This control is useful for continuous playback at different speeds, in fast and slow
motion. It also shifts the pitch of audio as it plays at varying speeds.
signal-to-noise ratio The ratio between the average loudness of the subject and the
background noise in a recording. Background noise can be many things—tape hiss, the
rustle of clothes, or the rumble of traffic. It’s important that the signal-to-noise ratio of
your recorded clips be fairly high, so that actors’ voices are comprehensible and clear.