Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1772)

Glossary 421
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.
flesh tone A special marker in the Final Cut Pro Vectorscope that indicates an area of
appropriate range for all shades of skin color. When calibrating a tape’s color in
preparation for capture or when using one of the color corrector tapes, the flesh tone
marker can be used as a guide for adjusting the hue in order to make sure the skin
tones look correct.
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.
frame blending A process of visually averaging frames together over time to create
smoother motion. This is often useful when playing back clips in slow motion, to
smooth otherwise jerky motion.
frequency The number of times a sound or signal vibrates each second, measured in
cycles per second, or hertz (Hz). Audio recordings are made up of a vast collection of
waveforms, using many different frequencies of sound. Each frequency in a recording is
associated with an audio pitch. For example, the note generated by each key of a piano
is at a specific frequency.
gain The amount an audio or video signal is boosted. In video, this increases the white
level; in audio, this increases the volume.
gamma A curve that describes how the middle tones of an image appear. Gamma is a
nonlinear function often confused with “brightness” or “contrast.” Changing the value
of the gamma affects middle tones while leaving the whites and blacks of the image
unaltered. Gamma adjustment is often used to compensate for differences between
Macintosh and Windows video graphics cards and displays.