Apple Final Cut Express HD - Manual (Page 1101)

Glossary 1101
sync The relationship between the image of a sound being made in a video clip (for
example, a person talking) and the corresponding sound in an audio clip. Maintaining
audio sync is critical when editing dialogue.
tabs In Final Cut Express HD, tabs delineate projects in the Browser, sequences in the
Canvas and Timeline, and functions within the Viewer. You click a tab to open a project
or go to a specified function window, such as Video, Audio, Filters, or Motion. Tabs can
also be dragged out of the main window to create a separate window.
tail clip The last clip in a sequence, or the clip on the rightmost side when looking at
an edit point between two clips.
tape-to-tape editing suite An editing facility that uses automated switching
equipment to assemble a finished program from the original source tapes using the
instructions contained in an EDL.
TARGA An uncompressed image file format that stores images using “millions of
colors+” for the color depth. TARGA files are supported by nearly every platform and
media application. The “+” indicates an alpha channel.
telecine A machine that converts the images on film negatives to a videotape format.
A telecine is necessary if you shot your project on film and you want to edit it on video.
three-point editing An editing technique in which three out of four In and Out points
are set in a Browser clip and a sequence. When the edit is performed, the fourth edit
point is calculated automatically by Final Cut Express HD.
thumbnail A tiny picture representing a clip. In Final Cut Express HD, the thumbnail is,
by default, the first frame of a clip. You can change the frame, known as the poster
frame, used as that clip’s thumbnail by using the Scrub Video tool.
thumb tabs (1) Small tabs between the audio and video scroll bars in the Timeline that
define separate groups of audio or video tracks with their own scroll bars. For example,
if you have more audio tracks than video tracks, you can use the thumb tabs between
your audio and video scroll bars to allocate more space to your audio tracks. (2) Small
tabs on either side of the Zoom slider that you drag to zoom in or out of a sequence.
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) A widely used bitmapped graphics file format,
developed by Aldus and Microsoft, that handles monochrome, grayscale, 8- and 24-bit
color. Can have alpha channels.
timecode A signal recorded with your video that uniquely identifies each frame on
tape. The SMPTE format for timecode is hours: minutes: seconds: frames.