CERTIFIED DIGITAL VIDEO EDITOR (DVE)
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What aspect ratio does a typical WIDESCREEN screen have? - Answers :16:9
What aspect ratio does a typical BOX TV screen have? - Answers :4:3
The process of converting a widescreen film into a standard-width video format while
maintaining the original aspect ratio of the film. - Answers :Letterbox Technique
The process of compressing a widescreen movie into a 4:3 frame. It was the process of
turning a "widescreen" picture into a "full-screen" one in more common terminology. -
Answers :Pan and Scan
to prevent key content from being cut off, regardless of whether the viewer is viewing an
SD feed on an SD or HD television or an HD feed on an HD television. - Answers :"Safe
Zone"
The process by which two distinct films are shown simultaneously in movies and
television programs is referred to by this name. - Answers :Split Screen
To overlay one video onto another, displaying both videos simultaneously. - Answers
:Picture in Picture (PIP)
A cropped image on your TV screen - Answers :Overscan
Refers to the black bars that surround a movie or television program. The content was
shot in a different proportion than your TV screen, which is why the bars appear. -
Answers :Underscan
These are areas on the screen where all text and important action should be kept within
to ensure the information is not cropped by the viewers display. - Answers :Title Safe or
Action Safe
Luminance - Answers :The intensity of light emitted from a surface per unit area in a
given direction.
Chrominance - Answers :The colorimetric difference between a given color in a
television picture and a standard color of equal luminance.
RGB - Answers :An additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors
of light are added together in various ways
YUV - Answers :An additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors
of light are added together in various ways
, Frame - Answers :One of the many still pictures that are in a video or film.
Frame Rate - Answers :Speed at which video frames appear on a screen.
Progressive scans - Answers :Scans that display all lines at once
Interlaced scans - Answers :Scans that display half of the lines at a time
Master - Answers :The full resolution, quality version of your final edited video.
Talking Hand - Answers :Gestures offset crew perform to point actors into the right
direction.
Dub - Answers :The process of adding new dialogue or other sounds to the soundtrack
of a view that has already been shot.
Freeze Frame - Answers :Dramatic video editing technique that makes a moving frame
of a video stop to draw viewers' attention
Transitions - Answers :A technique film editors use to move a scene from one video clip
to another.
Wipe - Answers :A video transition which dissolves overlap two scenes and gradually
transition from one to the next
Fade - Answers :A video transition that eases viewers into new imagery, rather than
using a sudden cut from scene to scene.
Timecode - Answers :Show control and other applications which require temporal
coordination or logging of recording or actions.
Pan - Answers :When the camera moves between two subjects while filming
Tilt - Answers :Cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position
but rotates up/down in a vertical plane
A-Roll - Answers :The primary footage of a project's main subject.
B-Roll - Answers :Shots that are supplemental footage.
Synchronization - Answers :The sound lining up properly with the image.
Open Captions - Answers :Captions that are always are in view and cannot be turned
off.
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
What aspect ratio does a typical WIDESCREEN screen have? - Answers :16:9
What aspect ratio does a typical BOX TV screen have? - Answers :4:3
The process of converting a widescreen film into a standard-width video format while
maintaining the original aspect ratio of the film. - Answers :Letterbox Technique
The process of compressing a widescreen movie into a 4:3 frame. It was the process of
turning a "widescreen" picture into a "full-screen" one in more common terminology. -
Answers :Pan and Scan
to prevent key content from being cut off, regardless of whether the viewer is viewing an
SD feed on an SD or HD television or an HD feed on an HD television. - Answers :"Safe
Zone"
The process by which two distinct films are shown simultaneously in movies and
television programs is referred to by this name. - Answers :Split Screen
To overlay one video onto another, displaying both videos simultaneously. - Answers
:Picture in Picture (PIP)
A cropped image on your TV screen - Answers :Overscan
Refers to the black bars that surround a movie or television program. The content was
shot in a different proportion than your TV screen, which is why the bars appear. -
Answers :Underscan
These are areas on the screen where all text and important action should be kept within
to ensure the information is not cropped by the viewers display. - Answers :Title Safe or
Action Safe
Luminance - Answers :The intensity of light emitted from a surface per unit area in a
given direction.
Chrominance - Answers :The colorimetric difference between a given color in a
television picture and a standard color of equal luminance.
RGB - Answers :An additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors
of light are added together in various ways
YUV - Answers :An additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors
of light are added together in various ways
, Frame - Answers :One of the many still pictures that are in a video or film.
Frame Rate - Answers :Speed at which video frames appear on a screen.
Progressive scans - Answers :Scans that display all lines at once
Interlaced scans - Answers :Scans that display half of the lines at a time
Master - Answers :The full resolution, quality version of your final edited video.
Talking Hand - Answers :Gestures offset crew perform to point actors into the right
direction.
Dub - Answers :The process of adding new dialogue or other sounds to the soundtrack
of a view that has already been shot.
Freeze Frame - Answers :Dramatic video editing technique that makes a moving frame
of a video stop to draw viewers' attention
Transitions - Answers :A technique film editors use to move a scene from one video clip
to another.
Wipe - Answers :A video transition which dissolves overlap two scenes and gradually
transition from one to the next
Fade - Answers :A video transition that eases viewers into new imagery, rather than
using a sudden cut from scene to scene.
Timecode - Answers :Show control and other applications which require temporal
coordination or logging of recording or actions.
Pan - Answers :When the camera moves between two subjects while filming
Tilt - Answers :Cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position
but rotates up/down in a vertical plane
A-Roll - Answers :The primary footage of a project's main subject.
B-Roll - Answers :Shots that are supplemental footage.
Synchronization - Answers :The sound lining up properly with the image.
Open Captions - Answers :Captions that are always are in view and cannot be turned
off.
