Digital Fact Book
ARRI is pleased to present Quantel's renowned Digital Factbook: 20th Anniversary Edition as a glossary and reference guide to digital technology for the D-21 website.
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- A # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - AAC
- AAF
- AC-3
- Accommodation (Stereoscopic)
- Active line
- Active Picture
- ADC or A/D
- ADSL
- AES/EBU
- Aliasing
- Aliens
- Alpha channel
- Anaglyph (Stereoscopic)
- Anamorphic
- Answer print
- Anti-aliasing
- API
- Arbitrated Loop (AL)
- ARC
- Archive
- Areal density
- ARPU
- Artifact
- ASCII
- ASIC
- Aspect Ratio
- Asynchronous (data transfer)
- ATM
- ATSC
- ATV
- Auditory masking
- AVC
- AVC-Intra
- AVCHD
- AVI (.avi)
- Axis (x, y, z)
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- B # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - B-frames
- Background loading
- Background task
- Bandwidth
- Bayer filter/mask array
- Best light (pass)
- Betacam
- Binary
- Bit (b)
- Bit rate reduction (BRR)
- BITC
- Blocks and Blocking
- Blu-ray Disc (BD)
- Bluetooth
- Breaking the frame (Stereoscopic)
- Broadband
- Browse
- Bug
- Bus
- BWF
- Byte (B), kilobyte (kB), megabyte (MB), gigabyte (GB), terabyte
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- C # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - C-mode
- Camera negative (film)
- Cardboarding (Stereoscopic)
- CCD
- CCIR
- CCITT
- CDL
- Checksum
- Chroma keying
- Chrominance
- CIE
- CIF
- CIFS
- CineAlta
- Cineon (file)
- Clip
- Clone
- CMOS
- Co-sited sampling
- Codec
- Coded (video)
- COFDM
- Color correction
- Color cube
- Color Decision List (CDL)
- Color management
- Color space
- Color timing (a.k.a. Grading)
- Color Transform Language (CTL)
- Common Image Format (CIF)
- Component video
- Compositing
- Compression (audio)
- Compression (video)
- Compression ratio
- Concatenation
- Conform
- Consolidation
- Constant bit rate (CBR) compression
- Content
- Contouring
- Control track
- Convergence (Stereoscopic)
- Corner pinning
- CRC
- Cross conversion
- CSMA/CD
- Cut (edit)
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- D # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - D-20
- D-ILA
- D1
- D10
- D11
- D12
- D2
- D3
- D4
- D5
- D6
- D7
- D9
- DAS
- Data carousel
- Data recorders
- Data scanner
- Datacasting
- dB
- DC-SDI
- DC28
- DCDM
- DCI
- DCI
- DCP
- DCT (compression)
- Decibel (dB)
- Defragmentation
- Deliverables
- Delta editing
- Densitometer
- Density
- Depth grading (Stereoscopic)
- DFS
- DI
- Diagnostics
- DiBEG
- Digital Asset Management (DAM)
- Digital Betacam
- Digital Cinema
- Digital cinematography
- Digital disk recorder (DDR)
- Digital intermediate (DI)
- Digital keying and chroma keying
- Digital lab
- Digital mixing
- Digital negative
- Digital-S
- Digitizer
- Digitizing time
- Dirac
- Discrete 5.1 Audio
- Disk drives
- Display resolutions
- Dither
- DivX
- DLNA
- DLP Cinema™
- DLP™
- DMB
- DMD™
- DNxHD
- Dolby
- Dominance
- Down conversion
- Down-res
- DPX
- DRAM
- Drop-frame timecode
- DSL
- DSLAM
- DSM
- DSS
- DTF and DTF-2
- DTT
- Dual link
- Duplex
- DV
- DVB
- DVCAM
- DVCPRO
- DVD
- DVE
- DVTR
- Dylan®
- Dynamic range
- Dynamic Rounding®
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- F # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - FAN
- Fibre Channel (FC)
- File transfer
- File-based (media)
- Film formats
- Film recorder
- Film scanner
- FireWire
- Flash Memory
- Flash – double and triple
- Floating edges or Floating window (Stereoscopic)
- Flop
- Format (television)
- Format conversion
- Fragmentation
- Frame Magic
- Frame-rate conversion
- Framestore
- Frequency
- FTP
- Full HD
- Full motion video
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- I # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - I-frame only (a.k.a. I-only)
- I-Link
- I-only
- IDTV
- IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire, I-Link)
- IEEE 802.3
- Illegal colors
- IMX
- In-server editing
- InfiniBand
- ING
- Inter-frame (compression)
- Interactive Television (iTV)
- Interlace (scan)
- Interlace Factor
- Internegative
- Interocular distance (Stereoscopic)
- Interoperability
- Interpolation (spatial)
- Interpolation (temporal)
- Interpositive
- Intra-frame (compression)
- IP
- IP Datacast Forum (IPDC)
- IP over DVB
- IPTV
- IRD
- ISA
- ISDB
- ISO
- Isochronous
- ITU
- ITU-R BT.601
- ITU-R BT.656
- ITU-R BT.709
- ITU-R/BT.799
- iTV
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- P2
- Pack
- PAL
- PAL-M
- PAN
- Parallax (Stereoscopic)
- Parallel processing
- Perf
- Photo-real
- Pixel (or Pel)
- PLD
- Plug-in
- POTS
- Print film
- Printer lights
- Professional Disc (PD)
- Profile
- Progressive (scan)
- Projectors (digital)
- Pseudoscopic (Stereoscopic)
- Publishing
- Pulfrich effect (Stereoscopic)
- Purpose-built hardware
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- S # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z - Safe area
- SAIT-2
- Sampling standard
- SAN
- SATA
- Scaling
- Schema
- Scrub (audio)
- SCSI
- SD, SDHC
- SDI
- SDK
- SDTI
- SDTV
- Secondary color correction
- Secure Data
- SED
- Seek time (a.k.a. Positioning time)
- Serial Digital Interface (SDI)
- Server (file)
- Server (video)
- Server editing
- Shannon Limit
- Signal-to-noise ratio (S/N or SNR)
- Simulcasting
- Simultaneous true random access
- SMPTE
- SNMP
- Square pixels
- SRAM
- SSD
- Standard platform
- Standards (television)
- Standards conversion
- Statistical multiplexing (a.k.a. Stat Mux)
- Status M and Status A
- StEM
- Stencil®
- Stereoscopic Window (Stereoscopic)
- Stereoscopy
- Stop
- Storage capacity (for video and film)
- Streaming (video and/or audio)
- Structured Query Language (SQL)
- Sub-pixel
- Switch (network)
- SXRD
- Synchronous (data transfer)
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