Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 1094)

1094 Glossary
playhead A navigational element in the Viewer and Canvas scrubber bar and in the
Timeline. It corresponds to the frame displayed in the Canvas and the Viewer. You drag
the playhead to navigate through a sequence.
post-production The phase of film or video editing in which all of the production
elements are organized, assembled, and output for the distribution phase.
preset A saved group of settings, such as capture, device control, and sequence
settings. Presets determine properties such as frame rate, editing timebase, and
capture interfaces. Presets are usually defined for particular video formats and
workflows, and can be grouped together into Easy Setups.
Print to Video A command in Final Cut Express HD that lets you send clips or sequence
to your video or audio outputs for recording on tape.
proc amp Short for processing amplifier. A specific piece of equipment that allows you
to adjust video levels on output.
program The movie you may create in Final Cut Express HD. May consist of multiple
sequences or one or more clips.
project In Final Cut Express HD, the file that holds all of the elements of your movie,
such as clips, bins, and sequences. Media files are stored separately from a project file.
QuickTime Cross-platform multimedia technology from Apple. Widely used for editing,
compositing, CD-ROM, web video, import and export, and more.
QuickTime Streaming The streaming media addition to the QuickTime architecture.
Used for viewing QuickTime content in real time on the web.
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) A method of providing nonlinear
editors with many gigabytes (GB) of high-performance data storage by formatting a
group of hard disks to act in parallel as a single drive volume. There are different ways
of creating a RAID, but for digital video editing the most common is referred to as a
Level 0 RAID. The performance of a group of hard disks striped together as an array is
much higher than that of the individual drives.
RAM (Random Access Memory) A computer’s memory capacity, measured in
megabytes (MB), which determines the amount of data the computer can process and
temporarily store at any moment.
razor blade edit An edit in which a single clip is cut into two clips.
raw data Uncompressed data.
real-time effects Effects that can be applied to clips in an edited sequence and played
back in real time, without requiring rendering first. In Final Cut Express HD, the real-
time effects architecture is known as RT Extreme.