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| Audio Video Interleave (AVI) | the three-character filename extension for Microsoft Windows standard video format |
| firewire | cable, also known as IEEE-1394, that carries digital video signals, which include audio,video, and control (stop,start,etc.) signals |
| Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) | a file format that provides frame-to-frame compression |
| MOV | file extension for a QuickTime movie |
| postproduction | final stages of video production |
| S-video | a video format that records a high-quality video signal on an SVHS videocassette that carries at least 400 lines of resolution but is the same size and shape as a regular VHS videocassette |
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) | an external bus standard that supports data transfer rates of 480 mbps (480 million bits per second) |
| Windows Media Video (WMV) | video file format that can be viewed in Windows Media Player |
| Animation | a simulation of movement or the perception of motion created by the rapid display of series of still images |
| Frame | a single still image in a video or animation |
| Frame animation | a type of animation that is based on the changes that occur from one frame to another; sometimes known as cel animation |
| Looping | repeating a function until a certain condition is met |
| Morphing | animation technique in which one image is transformed into another image |
| Rendering | the final step in creating a 3-D animation that involves giving objects attributes such as colors, surface textures, and degrees of transparency |
| Transition | special effects, such as 'fade in" and "fade out," that can be et to occur between frames in an animation |
| Tweening | short for in-betweening, the process of genarating intermediate frames between two images to give the apperance that the first image evolves smoothly into the second image |
| Vector animation | moves an object along a predetermined path on the screen; the path could be a straight line or it could include any number of curves; often the object does not change, although it might be resized or reshaped; also known as path animation |
| Warping | special effect that results in distortion of an image |
