Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1947)

464 Glossary
nonlinear editing A video editing method in which edits within a program can be
changed at any time without having to re-create the entire program. When you use a
nonlinear editing application to edit a program, all footage used is stored on a hard
disk rather than on tape. This allows random access to all video, audio, and images as
you edit. Compare with linear editing.
NTSC format The video standard defined by the National Television Standards
Committee, the organization that originally defined North American broadcast standards.
Analog NTSC video has 525 interlaced lines per frame, a frame rate of 29.97 fps, and a
limited color gamut. Digital NTSC video has a frame size of 720 x 486 pixels (720 x 480
for DV and DVD), and a frame rate of 29.97 fps. Compare with PAL format.
NTSC legal The range of color that can be broadcast free of distortion according to the
NTSC standards.
offline Clips whose media files are currently unavailable to your project. They appear in
the Browser with a red slash through them. Clips may be offline because media files
haven’t been captured yet or because they’ve been modified in some way. To view
these clips properly in your project you must recapture them or reconnect them to
their corresponding media files.
offline editing The process of editing a program at a lower resolution to save on
equipment costs or to conserve hard disk space. When the edit is finished, the material
can be recaptured at a higher quality, or an EDL can be generated for re-creating the
edit on another system.
opacity The level of a clip’s transparency.
ordered timecode break A nearly imperceptible gap in the timecode track of a tape
that breaks the continuous flow of timecode but doesn’t result in the timecode being
reset to 00:00:00:00. See also timecode.
outgoing clip The clip a transition segues from. For example, if Clip A dissolves to Clip
B, Clip A is the outgoing clip.
out-of-sync indicator In the Timeline, the symbol that appears at the beginning of a
clip when a video item moves out of sync with its linked audio items, or vice versa.
Out point The edit point that specifies the last frame of a clip for use in a sequence.
output Sending video or audio signals out of your Final Cut Pro editing system to
display on a monitor or record on tape.