Apple Final Cut Pro 6 - Manual (Page 1950)

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QuickView tab Provides an alternate way of viewing effects in a sequence outside of
the Canvas as you work. It takes advantage of the ability of Final Cut Pro to cache
frames of your sequence as you play it. This is useful for fast previews of complex
composites and effects. It’s also a good way to see how your final composite looks if
you are zoomed in to the Canvas while making adjustments.
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.
range checking Options that enable zebra striping to immediately warn you of areas
of a clip’s image that may stray outside of the broadcast legal range.
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 Pro, the real-time effects
architecture is known as RT Extreme.
recapture To capture a clip’s media file again. Usually done to eliminate unused
material in order to capture only the media files necessary to create your finished
program at full resolution.
record monitor In a linear editing suite, a monitor that displays the edited master tape.
A record monitor corresponds to the Canvas in Final Cut Pro.
redigitize To digitize clips again. Also referred to as recapturing.
reel Identifies the source tape from which a clip was captured. You specify a clip’s reel
number in the Logging tab of the Log and Capture window. This is typically entered
when logging, but you can also change it in the Browser or Item Properties window.
render To process video and audio with any applied filters or transitions, and store the
result on disk as a render file. Effects that aren’t real-time must be rendered to play back
properly. Once rendered, your sequence can be played in real time.
render files Files that Final Cut Pro generates when you render transitions and effects.
Render files are saved to the specified scratch disk.