Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1788)

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Super 16 A film format for widescreen presentations, with a 15:9 (1.66) aspect ratio.
Super 16 is frequently used when shooting a project intended to be blown up to
35 mm.
super-white White that is brighter than 100 IRE, the maximum level allowed by the
CCIR 601 engineering standard for video.
S-Video A high-quality video signal for high-end consumer video equipment. The
image looks sharper and has better color than composite video because S-Video sends
the color and brightness information separately, keeping the signals cleaner. Most
low-cost analog-to-digital video interfaces use S-Video as their highest quality video
signal. Also known as Y/C.
swap edit See shuffle edit.
sweetening The process of creating a high-quality sound mix by polishing sound
levels, rerecording bad sections of dialogue, and recording and adding narration,
music, and sound effects.
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 Pro, 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 with 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 Pro.