Apple Final Cut Pro 5 - Manual (Page 1779)

428 Glossary
NTSC format The video standard defined by the National Television Standards
Committee, the organization that originally defined North American broadcast
standards. NTSC video has a specifically limited color gamut, is interlaced, has a frame
size of 720 x 486 pixels (720 x 480 for DV), and a frame rate of 29.97 fps. Compare with
PAL format.
NTSC legal The range of color that can be broadcast free of distortion according to the
NTSC standards.
offline Clips whose media files are currently unavailable to your project. They appear in
the Browser with a red slash through them. Clips may be offline because media files
haven’t been captured yet or because they’ve been modified in some way. To view
these clips properly in your project you must recapture them or reconnect them to
their corresponding media files.
offline editing The process of editing a program at a lower resolution to save on
equipment costs or to conserve hard disk space. When the edit is finished, the material
can be recaptured at a higher quality, or an EDL can be generated for re-creating the
edit on another system.
opacity The level of a clip’s transparency.
ordered timecode break A nearly imperceptible gap in the timecode track of a tape
that breaks the continuous flow of timecode but doesn’t result in the timecode being
reset to 00:00:00:00. See also timecode.
outgoing clip The clip a transition segues from. For example, if Clip A dissolves to Clip
B, Clip A is the outgoing clip.
out-of-sync indicator In the Timeline, the symbol that appears at the beginning of a
clip when a video item moves out of sync with its linked audio items, or vice versa.
Out point The edit point that specifies the last frame of a clip for use in a sequence.
output Sending video or audio signals out of your Final Cut Pro editing system to
display on a monitor or record on tape.
overscan The part of the video frame that cannot be seen on a TV or video monitor.
Broadcast video is an overscan medium, meaning that the recorded frame size is larger
than the viewable areas on a video monitor. The overscan part of the picture is usually
hidden behind the plastic bezel on the edge of a television set. While you are editing,
you can use the action safe area to indicate the approximate portion of a frame that is
hidden because of overscanning.
overwrite edit An edit in which the clip being edited into a sequence replaces frames
that are already in the sequence.