Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 1086)

1086 Glossary
exposure The amount of light in video or film images. Exposure affects the overall
brightness of the image as well as its perceived contrast.
extend edit An edit in which the edit point is moved to the position of the playhead in
the Timeline. It allows you to move an edit point between two clips quickly. An extend
edit overwrites any clips that come between the selected edit point and the playhead.
It does not affect the overall duration of a sequence.
eyeline match During the intercutting of shots, refers to cutting from a clip of a person
looking at something to a clip containing the object that is being looked at.
favorite A customized effect that is used frequently. You can create favorites from most
of the effects in Final Cut Express HD.
field Half of an interlaced video frame consisting of the odd or the even scan lines.
Alternating video fields are drawn every 1/60th of a second in NTSC video to create
the perceived 30 fps video. There are two fields for every frame, an upper field and a
lower field.
filters Effects you can apply to video or audio clip items. Filters affect the visual or aural
quality of the clip to which they’re applied. For example, a video filter might change
the colors of your image, while an audio filter might add some reverberance, making
actors sound as if they’re in a huge space. In addition to using the filters that come
with Final Cut Express HD, you can use third-party filters.
finishing The process of reassembling the clips used in the final edit of a program at
their highest quality. Finishing may involve recapturing offline resolution clips at full
resolution, rerendering effects, then outputting the final program to tape. Finishing may
also involve extra steps that were not taken in the offline edit, such as color correction.
finishing on tape The process of using the EDL from an offline edit to reassemble a
sequence from the original source tapes in an online tape-to-tape editing suite.
FireWire The trademarked Apple name for the IEEE 1394 standard. A fast and versatile
interface used to connect DV camcorders to computers. FireWire is well suited to
applications that move large amounts of data, and can also be used to connect hard
disks, scanners, and other kinds of computer peripherals.
fit to fill edit An edit in which a clip’s speed is adjusted to fit a specified duration in a
sequence.
frame A single still image. Film and video are made up of a series of these images.
While a film frame is a single photographic image, an interlaced video frame contains
two fields.