Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 1091)

Glossary 1091
match-on-action A cut from one shot to another with similar action in the frame; for
example, cutting from a shot of a woman opening the door outside an apartment to a
shot from the interior of the apartment of the door opening and the woman walking in.
matte Sometimes referred to as a holdout matte . An effect that uses information in one
layer of video to affect another layer. Mattes are useful when you want to use one clip
to selectively hide or reveal part of another; for example, to reveal parts of a video layer
by a round spotlight shape. Matte filters can be used by themselves to mask out areas
of a clip, or to create alpha channel information for a clip in order to make a
transparent border around the clip that can be composited against other layers.
media A generic term for elements such as movies, sounds, and pictures.
merged clip A clip that refers to more than one source media file on disk. Usually, a
merged clip refers to a video file and multiple audio files.
mids Short for midtones . The values in an image between absolute white and
absolute black.
mini-DV cassette A small cassette used for the DV digital videotape format.
mixing The process of adjusting the volume levels of all audio clips in an edited
sequence, including the production audio, music, sound effects, voiceovers, and
additional background ambience, to turn all of these sounds into a harmonious whole.
mono Short for monophonic . A type of sound in which audio channels are handled
discretely, or are taken from a tape and mixed together into a single track, using equal
amounts of audio channels 1 and 2. Compare with
stereo , stereo pair .
montage A sequence in which a series of different shots are arranged to create a
certain mood or theme, or to denote the passage of time.
motion blur An effect that blurs any clip with keyframed motion applied to it, similar
to blurred motion recorded by a camera.
motion path Lines displayed in the Canvas showing the direction a clip will travel
based on positional keyframes applied to the clip.
MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) Acronym for Moving Picture Experts Group. A
group of compression standards for video and audio, which includes MPEG-1, MPEG-2,
and MPEG-4.
nested sequence A sequence that is edited into another sequence.
NLE Short for nonlinear editor . See nonlinear editing .