Herein lies a list of terms and their brief definitions for terminology specific to EditShare.
This is to say they are terms covering video industry terms and internal EditShare terms
Internal to EditShare:
ESC - EditShare Connect
DHR - Daily Health Report
SST - Sync Server Tool
FBI - Flow Browse Ingest (file ingest via transcode, not hardware based)
Industry terms referring to professional captured Video:
NLE- non-linear editor (Avid, Premiere, FCPx, etc)
Raster - refers to the frame size based on a number of pixels in each direction. Examples of two HD rasters are: 1920 x 1080 and 1280 x 720
SD- refers to Standard definition video (pre-dates HD, and has a smaller raster)
UHD- Ultra-High definition -refers to 4K video (there are multiple 4K standards)
LTC - Linear Time Code
VITC - Vertical interval time code
OB - Outside Broadcast (as in OB Truck to do remote production work)
NDI - Network Device Interface. Live video over IP production technology.
SDI- Serial Digital Interface- dedicated video cable capable of carrying any kind of HD video (on 1.5G cable) and up to 12G (depending on using correct cable) for UHD applications. Could also carry up to 16 AES or more embedded Audio channels.
AES audio- digital audio, carried together as a bundle. AES sources can come along a single cable or embedded in SDI or other video cable sources.
RS422- Commonly used for device control of decks for playback of video. You might use this to queue video for playback or ingest.
MOS- Open Source News room protocol used by many vendors to integrate hardware systems for universal control and coordination of devices for live events video production. This has historically been used with Geevs sometimes.
VTR: professional playback video device (think VCR with a lot more bells and whistles)
Terms more likely to relate to film-style digital video capture:
HDR: High Dynamic Range (meaning captured video is capable of carrying a lot of detail in the very bright portions and the very dark portions of the image). Often used when color grading will take place in post production.
Editing terms:
Dailies- raw unedited footage.
Bin- Refers to a directory (real or NLE UI based) where footage is kept. This is a hold-over from the days when film footage was actually stored in real world bins.
Sequence- Refers to the timeline where the show is being constructed
Proxy- Refers to a version of the footage which is a much smaller file, but contains the same picture and audio information as the primary files. Proxies are used to edit when playback of real files would be too laborious or expensive for the client workstation, online storage, and/or network or local IO. Typically the footage is only swapped for the real footage when the final copy is rendered out.
Conform - Online editing to create the final edit master, typically with high resolution footage. The offline edit master is used as a guide.
I/O points- refers to in/out points selected in a clip. This can be to make a subclip of the clip- or to highlight an area to add metadata such as comments.
Bin - Essentially a folder which contains a representation of of project metadata, may contain clips, subclips, sequences etc
SxS - "S by S", a Sony professional memory card format for a camera to record to
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