OHDA Digital Audio and Video: Glossary of Terms and Concepts
Doug Boyd Ph.D.
Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History
University of Kentucky Libraries
- All Audio Terms
- All Video Terms
- All Archives Terms
- 16:9: See also “Aspect Ratio”
- 16-bit/44.1 kHz
- 24-bit/96 kHz
- 4:3: See also “Aspect Ratio“
- 8-bit Uncompressed Video
- 10-bit Uncompressed Video
- AC Power Adapter
- Access
- Access Points
- Access Version
- Administrative Metadata
- AES/EBU
- Amplify
- Analog
- Analog to Digital Converter— (ADC, A/D or A to D)
- Apple ProRes 422
- ASIO
- Aspect Ratio
- Attenuate or Attenuation
- Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
- Audio Editing Software
- Automatic Level Control (ALC) /Automatic Gain Control (AGC)
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- AVC (Advanced Video Encoding)
- AVC Intra
- AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition)
- AVI
- Balanced Inputs/Outputs
- Bandwidth
- Batch Convert
- Bit
- Bit Depth
- Bit Rate
- Blu Ray Disc
- BNC connector
- “Boomy”
- “Bright”
- Buffer (Data)
- Broadcast Wave Format (BWF)
- Byte
- Card Reader
- Cardioid Microphone Pattern
- Channel
- Channel Convert
- Checksum
- Chroma Key Compositing
- Chrominance (Chroma)
- Cloud
- Clipboard
- Clipping
- CMS (Content Management System)
- Codec
- Compact Flash
- Component Video
- Composite Video
- Compression
- Condenser Microphone
- Container Format
- DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
- Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
- Digitize
- Discovery
- DC Offset
- Decibel (dB)
- Device Driver
- Destructive Editing
- Digital Audio
- Digital Audio Editing
- Digital Preservation
- Digitization
- Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Digital Signal Processor
- Directional Microphone
- Distortion
- Drag and Drop
- Dropped Frame
- Dublin Core
- DV
- DVD
- DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM
- Dynamic Microphone
- Dynamic Range
- EAD (Encoded Archival Description)
- Electret Condensor Microphone
- Equalization (EQ)
- File Association
- File Format
- Filename
- Firewire
- Flash (Adobe)
- Flash Memory
- Flat Response
- Frame
- Frames Rate
- Frequency
- Gain
- GB (Gigabyte)
- Generation
- “Green Screen”
- H.264
- HD (Video)
- HDD (Hard Disk Drive)
- HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
- HDV
- Headroom
- Hertz (Hz)
- High Definition Video
- High-Pass Filter
- Hiss
- Hold Button
- “Hot”
- HTML 5
- Hum
- Hyper Cardioid Microphone
- IEEE 1394 (Firewire)
- Instantiation (or Instance)
- Interlaced Video
- Internal Microphone
- Intermediate Codec
- Interoperability
- Key Frame
- Key Lock
- Kilohertz (kHz)
- Lapel / Lavalier Microphone
- Letterbox
- Level Meter
- Limiter
- Line Level
- “Lossless”
- “Lossy”
- Low-Pass Filter
- LTO (Linear Tape Open)
- Luminance (Luma)
- MARC
- Marker
- Master
- MB (Megabyte)
- Metadata
- METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard)
- Microphone (Mic)
- Mid-Side Recording
- Migration
- Mini Jack
- M-JPEG (Motion JPEG)
- MODS (Metadata Object Description Schema)
- Monitor (Audio levels)
- Monitor (speaker)
- Monitor (video)
- Mono (Monaural)
- MOV (.mov)
- MPEG
- MP3 (MPEG Audio Layer III)
- “Muddy”
- Noise Floor
- Nondestructive Editing
- Normalize
- NTSC (National Television System Committee)
- Nyquist Theorem (The Sampling Theorem)
- Original
- Pan
- PAL (Phase Altering Line)
- Pause
- PBCore (Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary)
- Peak Levels
- Permitted Maximum Level (PML)
- Phantom Power
- Phono Connection (RCA Connector)
- Pixel
- Plug-In
- Podcast
- Polar Pattern (microphones)
- Progressive Download
- Progressive Video
- Proprietary Format
- Preamplifier (mic pre)
- Pulse Code Modulation
- Quantization
- Quantization Noise
- Quarter Inch Input
- Quicktime
- RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Discs)
- RCA Connector
- Record Level
- Record Indicator
- Record Pause
- Redundancy
- Render
- Resample
- Resolution
- RGB
- Rule of Thirds
- Sample Rate
- Secure Digital (SD) Card
- Shotgun Microphone
- Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
- Sound Card
- S/PDIF
- Standard Definition Video (SD)
- Stereo
- Stereo Microphone
- Still Frame
- Streaming
- Structural Metadata
- S-Video
- Synchronize
- Technical Metadata
- Terabyte
- Three Point Lighting
- Threshold
- Title
- Track
- Transcode
- Transcribe
- Transducer
- Transition
- Transparency
- TRS (Tip Ring Sleeve) Connector
- Uncompressed Audio
- Uncompressed Video
- Universal Serial Bus (USB)
- VBR (Variable Bit Rate)
- VHS
- Video
- Video Capture
- Video Editing Software
- Volume
- “Warmth”
- .wav
- White Balance
- Widesreen
- “Wrapper” Format
- YUV Sampling
- XLR
- XML
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