Apple Cinema Tools 3 - Manual (Page 227)

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shot A continuous film recording that does not have any cuts. A shot is a subset of a scene.
slug Blank (fill leader) or substitute footage used to fill in spaces where footage is
temporarily missing, in order to maintain sync between the picture and the soundtrack.
SMPTE Acronym for Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. The standard-
setting organization that established the SMPTE standard timecode for video. SMPTE
timecode is the most commonly used timecode format.
source clips The media files you start with when you begin editing. These are the files
that are captured into your computer and linked to the Cinema Tools database before
editing begins.
standard definition video Refers to the NTSC and PAL video standards. See also high
definition video; NTSC; PAL.
supers Short for superimposed. Overlays of images or text onto frames. For example,
titles are superimposed onto frames.
sync Short for synchronization. When audio is in unison (synchronized) with the
picture, they are said to be in sync.
synchronizer block A small mechanical bench device with sprocketed wheels
mounted on a revolving shaft. Located between film reels mounted on shafted
rewinds, it accepts one strip of film and perforated magnetic sound track per
sprocketed wheel. Once the film and track are locked onto the wheels, they can be
placed in exact mechanical sync and will maintain this sync while they are advanced
forward through the synchronizer block. The synchronizer block also keeps track of
elapsed footage via a mechanical feet and frames counter geared to the sprocket
wheels. Also known as a sync block, gang sync, or synchronizer.
take A take is another version of a particular shot. In shooting a film, there may be
multiple takes of each shot.
telecine A machine that copies the images on the original camera negative to a
videotape format, often including a window burn of the film edge code. See window
burn.
telecine film speed The frame rate at which the film is run in telecine equipment
during the transfer to video.
telecine log A file generated by the telecine technician during the telecine transfer.
Records the key numbers of the original camera negative and the timecode of the
video transfer, tracking the relationship between them. Sometimes called a FLEx file.
timecode A format for assigning each frame of video a unique, sequential unit of time.
The format is hours: minutes: seconds: frames.
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