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Welcome to the mediagods.com online glossary. Below, you will find words dealing with media preparation, production, and purchasing. There are also entries for people who have influenced computer science and this thing we call multimedia. | ||
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AB roll editing
Acrobat
action safe
Active-Movie
Active-X
Adaptec
Adobe
ADPCM
ADR
ADSL
Advertising Age
AdWeek
AEA
AES/EBU
After Effects
AFTRA
AGMA
AI
AIMT
Alpha Channel
Alpha Processor
Alpha-numeric
AltaVista
ambient sound
Amiga
amplify
amplitude
AMPTP
anamorphic
Anchor
Marc Andreessen
Animated GIFs
ANPA 1312
ANSI
anti-aliased
AOL
Apache
APC
aperture
API
Apple Computer
Apple QuickTime
applet
aqueous coating
artifact
ASCAP
ASCII
aspect ratio
Assembly Language
Asset Management
Astarte
Atari
Atari
Atari
Atari
ATM
ATM
attenuate
AU
Authorware
Avatar
AVI
Avid
Avid OMFI
AVR
AWT
Babelfish
B
back endbackbone
balanced connectors
balanced wiring
banner ad
bar
basic authentication
baud
baud rate
J.M.E. Baudot
BBS
beat
bed
Timothy J. Berners-Lee
Beta
Beta
BetaSP
Bezier Curve
BIND
BinHex
bitmap
Black levels
black stretch
Blackburst
blanking
Bleed
Bleeding Edge
BLOB
block
blown
blue book
blue screen
BMI
BMP
BNC
Boca-Raton, Florida
bogon
Bot
breakout box
Daniel Bricklin
broadcast
Broadcast Quality
Brooks' Law
bru
bubble jet
Buffer underrun
bugs
bulk emailer
bulk mailer
Burn
Burn
burned in
Nolan K. Bushnell
byte boundary
C
C
C++cache
Cakewalk
CAL
call center
carriage return
CAV
CAV
CBT
CCD
CCIR
CD
CD Plus
CD-DVD
CD-Extra
CD-RW
CDR
Vinton Cerf
CERN
certificate
CES
CG
CG
cgi
cgi-bin
Tom Christiansen
chroma channel
chroma key
chroma level
chrominance
click track
Clio
clipping
CLV
CMS
CMYK
co-location
coax
Cobol
Code
codec
coin-op
color spill
ColorSync
column inches
COMDEX
Commodore Business Machines
comp
Compaq
compiler
Component Video
Composite Video
Console
Console
Console
contact sheet
cookies
copyright
CORBA
CPAN
CPM
CPM
CPU
crawl
crawling
Seymour Cray
Creative
Laura Croft
crossfade
CRT
CSR
CSS
CSU/DSU
CU
Cubase
Cursor
Cursor
cut
cut
cut
CVS
CyberCash
D1
D
DaemonDAT
data base
Davenport Group
DAW
dB
DBA
DDS
DEC
Denon
depth of field
desktop
Developer, Software
Development
Development
DHCP
DHTML
DI
DigiDesign
Digital
Digital Beta
digital I/O
Digitize
Dijkstra, Ed
Direct Box
Director
DirectShow
dissolves
DITTO
DLL
DLS
DNS
DocBook
Dodge
dolly shot
DOM
domain name
Doom
DOS
downbeat
download
Downsample
Drive Array
drop-frame timecode
dropout
drum scanner
DSL
DSO
DSP
DSU
DTD
Dublin Core
Albrecht Durer
DV
DVD
DVE
DVI
Esther Dyson
e-commerce
E
E3ECD
ECMAScript
EDI
editing
EDL
EFF
EISA
EISA
Electrosonic
Lawrence Joseph Ellison
epoch
EPS
Epson
EQ
EQ
Equity Gig
establishing shot
Ethernet
EvangeList
executable
f-stop
F
fair useFAQ
farkle
Fibre Channel
Field
Roy T. Fielding
Fiery
fill
firewall
FireWire
Flame
flat-bed scanner
flatten a file
flattened
flc
fli
focus distance
Foley
Dennis Fong
Four A's
fps
Frame
frame-accurate
Freehand
freeware
front-end
FUD
FX
GAAP
G
Peter Gabrielgain
gain-stage
galley
gamma
gamma
gamut
William H. Gates III
Gaussian blur
GEAR
Gecko
gel
GIF
GIF89a
GIMP
glass master
GM
Gold Master
GPL
grain
gray card
Green Book
grep
grip
GUI
H. 261
H
Hard DriveHarry Fox Agency, Inc.
harvesting
HDTV
headroom
Headspace
hexachrome
Hi-8
Hi8
hit
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
HTML
HTTP
Hubris
hue
hypercardioid
IANA
I
ICANNICANN
ICC
ICE
IDEF
IEEE
IEEE1394
IETF
IIS
IMA
Immedia
Impatience
Indeo
ink jet
Integrated Definition
interactivity
InterNIC
interpreter
Iomega
IP Tunnel
IPO
IPTC7901
IRC
IRE
IRIS
iris out
IRIX
IS
ISA
ISAPI
ISP
ISRC codes
IT
ITU
ITU 601-R broadcast standard
IVI
J-Script
J
Steve Jacksonjaggies
Java
JavaScript
JFIF
JIT
Steven Paul Jobs
jog
JPEG
jpg
jump cut
Mitchell D. Kapor
K
Guy KawasakiAlan Kay
Brian W. Kernighan
kerning
key
key frame
kiosk
knee control
LAN
L
languagelatency
lav mic
Laziness
LCD Display
leading
legacy
LightWave
line-feed
Lingo
LinkExchange
LISP
listserv
Logging
loopable
lossless
lossy
LTC
luma channel
luma keys
luminance
Lynx
LZW
M/IS
M
MatchprintMatrix Switcher
Matte
MCI
Scott McNealy
media
media
Media Buyer
Mersenne prime
Marin Mersenne
Robert Metcalfe
mic spill
middle-ware
MIDI
MIME
MiniDV
Mixer
MNG
morph
morphing
Mosaic
Motion Control
Motion Control
MOTU
Mountain Dew
mov
Mozilla
MP3
MPEG
mpg
MTC
Multiplexer
multisession disc
multisync
NAB
N
narrowcastnav
nav bar
nav panel
NC
NCSA
needle drop
Ted Nelson
NetBIOS
Network Solutions
NewMedia
NewTek
NeXTStep
NFS
NIC
NIS
NITF
NLE
non-drop-frame timecode
normalize
NSF
NT
NTFS
NTSC
NURB
NURBS
Oak
O
OC12OCR
ODBC
Offline Editing
OLE
OMF
OMS
Online Editing
Opcode
Open GL
Oracle
orange book
OS/2
out-of-gamut color
Overprint
overscan
pageview
P
PALPAL-M
pano
Seymour Papert
PARC
Pascal
patch
PC
PCM
pedestal
perl
PGP
phong shading
PhotoCD
PhotoShop
PICS
PICS
ping
pixel
PKZIP
Plasma Display
Play Inc.
plug-in
PNG
Point-to-point transmission
polygon
POP
POP
POP
pop-up
POP3
Post-production (post)
PostScript
POTS (POTS line)
POV shot
pre-production
pre-roll
Premier
prepress
private key
proc amp
progress bar
progressive download
proof sheet
prospectus
ProTools
proxy
PSTN
public domain
public key
punch out
punch-in
python
Q Factor
Q
QADQuac
Quake
Quark
Query
QuickSort
rack-job
R
rackmountRAID
Rainbow
RAM
rasterize
rate card
ray tracing
ray-traced
Eric Raymond
RC5
RDF
real-time processing
RealAudio
Recursive
red book
refresh rates
Regular Expressions
Release Candidate
render
render farm
resolutions
RIAA
rich-media
Dennis M. Ritchie.
RLE
Road Show
ROI
rollover
RSA
RSACi
RSN
RSX
RTF
RTFM
S-VHS
S
S-VideoS/PDIF digital I/O
S/SDIF
SAG
SAMBA
Scan converter
scan-line
scene
schema
Eric Schmift
Randal L. Schwartz
scoring
Screen Saver
scrub
SCSI
SDMI
SDTV
search indexer
SEC
SECAM
semaphores
separation table
separations
Sequel Server
sequence
Sequencer
Sequoia Capital
server
Set-top box
Seybold
SGI
SGML
shareware
shelf talker
Shocked
Shockwave
shoe
shooting script
shopping cart
shot
shrink-wrap
Siggraph
sign-off
Silicon Valley
Siliwood
single-field offline images
Smacker
SmallTalk
SMB
SMPTE
Snappy
sneaker net
Snow Crash
SoftImage
SoftWindows
Solaris
Sorenson
source code
sp
Spam
spambot
SPIFF
Spline
Spline-based modeler
spread
Sprite
SQL
SSI
SSL Encryption
Richard Stallman
Stanford University
Steadicam
stet
stinger
Kiki Stockhammer
storyboard
Strata
Streaming Audio
Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup
Suit
Sun Microsystems
SUPER
SVHS
Switch
Switcher
sync
Syquest
Systran
T1
T
T3tag
tag-line
tags
talent
Tcl
telecine
temperature
tempo
text-based browser
texture map
Kenneth Thompson
thumbnail
TIFF
timbre
timecode
title safe
titles
Toast
Toaster
Toolbook
top level domain (or TLD)
Linus Torvalds
touch-screen
Track
tracking
Tracking Shot
trademark
trap
Trapping
Edward Tufte
Turing Test
Alan M. Turing
Tux the Penguin
two shot
Type 1 font
Type 2 font
UDP
U
UIUML
Unicode
UNIX
unsharp masking
upload
UPS
UPS
URI
URL
URN
User Agent
usr
V.34
V
V.90V12
VB
VB-Script
VBI
Vector Graphics
version control
VESA
VHS
Video Switcher
Video Toaster
video wall
videographer
Vision
VITC
VO
VOB
VOD
VRML
VST
VTR
W3C
W
Larry WallWatermark
Wavetable Synthesizer
WebStar
White Book
white levels
whitespace
Wide-screen
WinZip
wipe
Wired Magazine
workflow
Steve Wozniak
x-height
X
X-windowsX.509 certificate format
Xanadu
XLR connector
XML
XSL
XTRA
Y/C
Y
Y2Kyahoo
Yamaha
Jerry Yang
YIQ
YUV Component I/O
Philip R. Zimmermann
Z
ZipZip