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- Film Editing - a part of the film making process that involves selecting shots of film an joining them together
- Frame - a single image that makes up a motion picture. 24 frames are needed to make 1 second of film
- Shot - a continuous strip of motion picture film created from a series of frames that runs for an uniterupted period of time
- rough cut - The editor's first pass at assembling the shots into a film, before tightening and polishing occurs.
- final cut - The finished edit of a film, approved by the director and the producer. This is what the audience sees.
- Adobe Premere Pro CS4 - a video editing program that has many features to make editing easy
- fade - A visual transition between shots or scenes that appears on screen as a brief interval with no picture. Usually represents a change in time and place.
- cross cutting - Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously.
- Dissolve - A gradual scene transition. The editor overlaps the end of one shot with the beginning of the next one.
- Establishing shot - A shot, normally taken from a great distance or from a "bird's eye view," that establishes where the action is about to occur.
- rough cut - The editor's first pass at assembling the shots into a film, before tightening and polishing occurs.
- final cut - The finished edit of a film, approved by the director and the producer. This is what the audience sees.
- fade - A visual transition between shots or scenes that appears on screen as a brief interval with no picture. Usually represents a change in time and place.
- cross cutting - Cutting back and forth quickly between two or more lines of action, indicating they are happening simultaneously.
- Dissolve - A gradual scene transition. The editor overlaps the end of one shot with the beginning of the next one.
- Establishing shot - A shot, normally taken from a great distance or from a "bird's eye view," that establishes where the action is about to occur.
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