AUDIO VIDEO VOCABULARY Flashcards
(23 cards)
What is a term in sound production referring to the music or ambiance sounds continuously playing in the background under speech or scenes?
bed
What is a troll that allows combining multiple audio sources into one signal for recording?
Borad (mixing borad)
This can occurs when an audio recording distorts the sound level (volume/pressure) exceeds what the equipment can accuretly capture.
Clipping
What is a way of making an audio or video file smaller while trying to maintain sound quality?
Compression
This is to an image as a sine wave is to sound
Pixel
What is a means of evening out the sound levels in an audio file? This can be done real-time while recording in hardware or post production via software.
Compressor
What is a piece of hardware (that is often incorporated into a hardware compressor) that sets a minimum sound level before any sound is recorded?
Gate
What is a short audio or video clip placed at the beginning of a podcast/video cast that may have music and/or an announcement with the name of the show and episode and any other relevant information, such as sponsors?
intro
What is a part of an MP3 file that allows data about the file to be stored, such as the title, author or artist, category and cover art?
ID3 tag
What is a popular audio file format, commonly used for podcast (episodes)?
MP3
What is a sort audio or video clip placed at the end of a podcast/video cast
Outro
What is a microphone that picks up sounds from the front and back but not the sides?
Omnidirectional mic
How much data a computer program can handle at a time. lower buffer sizes have lower latency, but. are more susceptible to crashing.
Buffer size
What is a microphone that picks up sound from all direction
Bi-Directional mic
What is recording several copies of one musical part to be preformed on top of each other?
Layering
What is gradual appearance of an image, light, or sound, especially as a transition in a cinematic work, audio recording, or performance?
Fade
this is a fade from one audio clip or track to another
Crossfade
what is a sample rate work together to determine the resolution of digital audio?
Bit Depth
what is Unwanted transfer of signals between communication channels
Crosstalk
what is describing the rate at which a sound wave vibrates, measured in cycles per second, or hertz (Hz)
Frequency
The process of finalizing audio for a specific medium, such as the web or an audio CD
Mastering
what is a format is actually a multimedia container that holds audio, video, images, animations and menus
MP4
what is a single stream of recorded sound with no location in a sound field
Track
