Production Glossary
This production glossary is designed to be an extensive reference for terminology used in the royalty free music industry, production music, film, television, video production, advertising, post production world and more. In other words, this is intended to be a valuable resource for the production community. The glossary is an ever-expanding work. Because new terms, products and slang are introduced all the time, we will continue to add to this resource.
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- Acapella
- Accent
- Adagio
- Adobe Premier Pro
- Advanced Authoring Format (AAF)
- AIFF
- Aliasing
- Allegro
- Alto
- American Cinematographer (publication)
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Amplitude
- AMWA
- Analog Video
- Andante
- Anti-Aliasing
- Aperture
- Arpeggio
- Art Director
- Aspect Ratio
- Assistant Director
- Audio Bandwidth
- Audio Channel
- Audio Commentary
- Audio Input
- Audio Interface
- Audio Output
- Azimuth Recording
B
- B-Frame
- B-Movie
- Back Light
- Bass (notes)
- Beat
- Best Boy
- Betacam
- Bit Rate
- Black Burst
- Block Booking
- Blu-Ray
- Blue-ray Disc Association
- Bollywood
- Broadcast Television
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- Camcorder
- Camera
- Canon
- Casting Director
- Chief Lighting Technician
- Chord
- Chroma
- Chroma Key
- Cinematographer
- Cinematography
- Cinepak
- Clapper Board
- Clipping
- Closed Captioning
- CMX Systems
- Coda
- Codec
- Color Balance
- Color Gel
- Commissioned Screenplay
- Component Video
- Composer
- Composite Video
- Composition
- Compression
- Condenser Mic
- Copyright Law
- Corbis
- Crescendo
- Crosstalk
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- DAW
- Decibel
- Delta Frame
- Digital Audio
- Digital Audio Extraction (DAE)
- Digital Delay
- Digital Media Remastering
- Digital Photography
- Digital Video Interface (DVI)
- Director of Photography
- Dissonance
- Distortion
- Double-layer recording
- Downlighting
- Downtempo
- Drive-In Theater
- Drop Frame
- Dubbing
- Dubbing
- DVD
- Dynamic Range
- Dynamics (musical)
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- Falsetto
- Film
- Film Director
- Film projector
- Film Sequence
- Film Stock
- Film Theory
- Filmmaking
- Final Cut Pro
- Flash Memory
- Floppy Disk
- Foley Artist
- Forte
- Fortissimo
- FPS (Frames Per Second)
- Frequency
- Fresco
- Fugue
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- Mastering
- Medley
- Melody
- Meter (Metre)
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Mezzo
- Mezzo Forte
- Mezzo Piano
- MIDI
- Mini DV
- Mixing
- Modulation
- Mono
- MP3
- MPEG
- Mpeg 1
- Mpeg 2
- Multi-Level Cell
- Multimedia
- Music for YouTube Videos
- Music Theory
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- PAL
- Paramount Pictures
- Passionato
- Performing Rights Organization
- Phantom Power
- Philips
- Photographic Film
- Pianissimo
- Pianoforte
- Pillarboxing
- Pitch
- Pixel
- Pizzicato
- Plugin
- Poloroid
- Polyphony
- Post Production
- Pre-amp
- Presto
- Producer
- Production designer
- Public Domain
- Pulse code modulation
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- S-Video
- SAG
- Sampling Rate
- Scale
- Scherzo
- Score
- Screen Actors Guild - SAG
- Screenplay
- Screenwriter
- Screenwriting
- SECAM
- Sensitometer
- Shotgun Microphone
- Signal
- Signal-to-noise Ratio (SNR)
- Silent film
- Slug Line
- Sony
- Soprano
- Sound
- Sound Designer
- Sound editor
- Sound Effect
- Sound Stage
- Soundtrack
- Spec Screenplay
- Special effect
- Spike Tape
- Steadicam
- Stereo Sound
- Stock Footage
- Stock Music
- Stock Photography
- Storyboard
- Subtitles
- Syncopation
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- Tapeless Camcorder
- Technicolor
- Teleplay
- Teleprompter
- Telestrator
- Tempo
- Tenor
- Timbre
- Toshiba
- Tremolo
- Tuning Fork
- Twentieth Century Fox
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