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| aspect ratio | The width of an image compared to the height of an image |
| assets | Digital content such as video clips, text, drawings, sounds, and still images |
| audio track | Audio portion of recorded video |
| capture | Importing video into a video editing program straight from the video camera |
| codec | The word that stands for compressor/decompressor, and is a system for compressing a large amount of data into a smaller file |
| digital video | Presents moving pictures organized into frames. |
| footage | Raw, unedited material |
| high definition | Progressive digital video in widescreen format |
| in point | The starting frame for editing |
| lossless | Codecs that do not cause a loss of quality |
| lossy | Codecs that cause a loss of quality by actually removing pieces of data |
| non-linear editing | Randomly access the video scenes and clips in any order |
| progressive | Type of video that draws each line of an image on the screen from the top to the bottom |
| sequence | Series of frames composed of assets |
| project | A file that stores the sequences you assemble, references to the assets that are associated with the sequences, and instructions for how to assemble and display the video but is not a movie. |
| source clip | Original video without edits or changes |
| static motion video | Images that are recorded and saved as a file for playback |
| streaming video | Video images captured in real time and transmitted over an Internet connection |
| voice over | When a narrator plays on an audio track along with the video track |
| webcam | Video camera attached to a computer that transmits the video to a Web page |
