Filmclusive Encyclopedia
Post-production
Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Offline edit
An editorial stage using manageable media or proxies to shape story and timing before final conform.
Offline media
Project items whose expected source files are unavailable at their recorded storage locations.
OMF
An interchange format commonly used to move audio edits and media references between systems.
Online conform
The finishing rebuild of an approved edit from original or highest-quality picture sources.
Online edit
The finishing stage that relinks high-quality media and applies approved picture, graphics, and mastering work.
Open captions
Captions permanently visible within the program image for all viewers.
OpenEXR sequence
An ordered set of high-dynamic-range OpenEXR image files used extensively in visual effects.
Optical flow
Motion estimation between frames used to synthesize intermediate pictures for retiming or conversion.
Original camera file
A native digital file created by a camera before editorial transcoding or rendering.
Original Version DCP
A self-contained digital-cinema package carrying the primary picture, sound, and timed-text assets for a version.
Overwrite edit
An edit placing source into a timeline while replacing material within the destination duration.
P-frame
A predictively coded picture reconstructed using an earlier reference picture and residual data.
Package validation
Automated and human checking that a delivery package is complete, correctly structured, synchronized, and within specification.
Packing list
A package document enumerating included assets and their identifiers for ingest and validation.
Paint-out
Frame-by-frame removal or replacement of an unwanted photographed object or artifact.
PCM audio
Pulse-code modulation, a method representing sampled audio amplitude as numerical values.
Phase alignment
Adjustment of timing or polarity so related audio signals combine as intended.
Photosensitive-epilepsy test
An automated and reviewed check for flashing or patterned images that may pose photosensitive seizure risk.
Picture lock
The point at which editorial timing and shot order are approved for downstream finishing.
Planar tracking
Motion analysis following a flat surface region through translation, scale, rotation, and perspective change.
Playback QC
Real-time review of a deliverable through an appropriate playback path from beginning to end.
Playhead
The timeline indicator showing the current temporal position for playback, editing, or navigation.
Point tracking
Motion analysis following one or more localized image features across frames.
Post-production continuity script
A detailed record of final program content, timings, shots, dialogue, music, and other required elements.
Power window
A shaped spatial mask used in color grading to restrict an adjustment to part of the image.
Precomposition
A nested composition used to group layers or processing within a larger motion-graphics or effects comp.
Premix
A focused mixing pass that balances and processes a group of elements before the final mix.
Premultiplied alpha
An image representation in which color channels are already multiplied by transparency values.
Premultiply
The operation of multiplying color channels by alpha so stored color is associated with opacity.
Preview file
A temporary render generated to improve timeline playback of effects or demanding media.
Primary color correction
A color adjustment affecting the image broadly, such as overall exposure, balance, contrast, or saturation.
Printmaster
The approved final program mix from which exhibition or distribution audio deliverables are derived.
Production dialogue
Dialogue recorded during photography and carried into post as the primary performance source.
Program monitor
An editing viewer that displays the current output of the active sequence or timeline.
Project locking
A collaboration control preventing conflicting users from modifying the same project state simultaneously.
Proxy media
Lower-bandwidth copies used to edit efficiently while preserving a path back to original media.
Pull list
A list identifying source shots or film sections that must be retrieved for conforming, scanning, or effects work.
Pulldown removal
The reconstruction of original film-like frames by identifying and removing a video field cadence.
QC report
A structured record of technical, editorial, accessibility, or packaging issues found during quality control.
Quality control
A structured review that checks technical, editorial, accessibility, and delivery requirements.
QuickTime movie
A media container commonly identified by the .mov extension and capable of carrying many codecs and tracks.
Reaction shot
A shot emphasizing a character’s response to dialogue, action, or new information.
Reference monitoring level
A calibrated playback sound-pressure level associated with a known digital reference signal.
Reference rendering transform
The ACES rendering stage that converts scene-referred values toward an output-referred appearance model.
Relink media
The process of reconnecting project items to moved, restored, or higher-quality source files.
Render farm
A managed group of computers distributing image, effects, animation, or transcoding jobs.
Render file
A calculated media file storing effects or composites for playback, export, or finishing.
Replace edit
An edit substituting source content while preserving a selected timeline clip’s position and duration.
Ripple edit
A trim that changes one clip edge and shifts later timeline material to close or create the resulting gap.
Rolling edit
A trim that moves a shared cut point between adjacent clips without changing overall sequence duration.
Roto matte
An animated matte shaped frame by frame to isolate a moving image element.
Rotoscope spline
An editable curve defining part of an animated matte boundary.
Rotoscoping
The process of creating animated mattes or masks by tracing and refining moving image elements over time.
Rough cut
An edit focused on story, structure, and performance before final timing and finishing decisions.
Sample-rate conversion
Digital conversion of audio from one sampling frequency to another.
Scene-referred image data
Image values related to the light and exposure of the photographed scene rather than a particular display.
SDH subtitles
Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences that include dialogue plus relevant sound and speaker information.
Secondary color correction
A selective grade isolated by color, luminance, matte, spatial mask, or tracked region.
Selects
Takes, moments, or source clips identified as preferred candidates for an edit or downstream task.
Sequence
An editable ordered arrangement of picture, sound, graphics, and timing in nonlinear editing software.
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