Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1781)

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preset A saved group of settings, such as capture, device control, and sequence
settings. Presets determine properties such as frame rate, editing timebase, and
capture interfaces. Presets are usually defined for particular video formats and
workflows, and can be grouped together into Easy Setups.
Print to Video A command in Final Cut Pro that lets you send clips or sequence to your
video or audio outputs for recording on tape.
proc amp Short for processing amplifier. A specific piece of equipment that allows you
to adjust video levels on output.
program The movie you may create in Final Cut Pro. May consist of multiple
sequences or one or more clips.
project In Final Cut Pro, the file that holds all of the elements of your movie, such as
clips, bins, and sequences. Media files are stored separately from a project file.
pull-down insertion The process of adding fields and frames to convert 23.98 or 24 fps
video to NTSC or PAL (29.97 or 25 fps, respectively).
pull-down pattern A method of inserting frames and fields into a video stream to
output 23.98 or 24 fps video to an NTSC or PAL device. See also 3:2 pull-down, 2:3:3:2
pull-down, 2:2:2:4 pull-down, 24@25 pull-down, and 24@25 repeat.
QuickTime Cross-platform multimedia technology from Apple. Widely used for editing,
compositing, CD-ROM, web video, import and export, and more.
QuickTime Streaming The streaming media addition to the QuickTime architecture.
Used for viewing QuickTime content in real time on the web.
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.