| Aperture | | A overall term that refers to information that is in a media presentation. |
| Aspect Ratio | | Preparing for the fundamental parts in making a multimedia project. |
| Codec | | A procedure where two video images are joined together. |
| Compression | | The quality of the video created, i.e. 1080 p, 720 p Standard resolution |
| Content | | Filming video that will be in a project. |
| Credits | | Recognition that is handed to people and places that were very important in the production of a movie, play, etc. |
| Cut | | The editing of the product. It is prepared to be shown to the public. |
| Dissolve | | is a tool for special effects where you can add a background to anything. |
| Editing | | is audio, video, and other media together into a complete video. |
| Fades | | short for compressor/decompressor. A codec is any technology used for compressing & decompressing information. |
| FPS | | both takes an automatic reading, or one chosen by the user, and sets the balance for the ambient light in the scene based on the information. |
| Green Screen | | This process involves removing parts of a clip that you don't want in your project without deleting them from the original source material. You can trim by adjusting the start or end trim points of a clip. |
| Movie File | | a transition in a video where one scene fades while another one appears. |
| MPEG | | is reducing the quantity of data related to a single frame of video information. Compression ratios are usually 100:1. Usually, it reduces 1 megabyte of data to about 10 kilobytes. By compressing, more information can be stored anywhere. |
| Pan and Zoom | | a program that is just like Video for Windows, but it is by Apple. |
| Picture in Picture | | an opening in a lens that can be modified. It regulates the light that goes into a camera. The size of the aperture is measured in f-stops. |
| Player | | A descriptive name given to a play, animated production or movie |
| Post Production | | The computer process of creating a special effect, animation or editing task |
| Pre Production | | The method of smoothly moving from one video clip or photo to another. |
| Production | | A view of the workspace that focuses on the timing of your clips. |
| QuickTime | | To improve and change |
| Rendering | | it is a technique for making video where some parts of the image are magnified. |
| Script | | to move from one scene in a movie to another, rapidly. |
| Shutter Speed | | A program that is able to play multimedia files. |
| Story Board | | To appear gradually or disappear gradually. |
| Timeline | | Timelines are divided into horizontal sections known as tracks. Clips are arranged in various tracks to adjust their timing relative to one another. |
| Title | | Sketches depicting different scenes in a play, animated production or movie |
| Tracks | | The manuscript of spoken words and/or the sequence of events and scenes in a movie, play, or other entertainment or artistic performance. |
| Transition | | Moving Picture Experts Group. It is a set of rules used for coding audio and visual information, in one format. |
| Trimming | | Some of the latest capture devices, mostly external ones, are connected to the PC via the USB port. These offer a much lower data-rate than FireWire/iLink, but they do not require a capture card to be installed into the PC. Generally they are good for capturing high-resolution still images from video or lower resolution MPEG-1 video files |
| USB | | The shutter electronically the amount of time that light passing through a lens exposes onto the CCD. Most camcorders are set at a shutter speed of 1/50 sec, with fast shutter speeds varying from 1/120 sec through to 1/10,000 sec. The higher the speed the more precise the detail and the less blur noticeable. |
| Video Resolution | | refers to how many frames are shown on a video in one second. |
| White Balance | | is the width of a picture to the height. The most common aspect ratios are 4:3 and 16:9. |
