Filmclusive Encyclopedia
Post-production
Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Sequence timecode
The timecode address assigned along an edited timeline independent of individual source timecodes.
Set extension
A visual-effects addition expanding a practical environment beyond what was built or photographed.
Shared project
An editorial project organized for concurrent or coordinated access by multiple collaborators.
Short-term loudness
A program-loudness measurement calculated over a moving window of several seconds.
Slide edit
An edit that moves a clip earlier or later while preserving its duration and adjusting neighboring clip edges.
Slip edit
An edit that changes a clip’s source in and out points while preserving its timeline position and duration.
Smash cut
An abrupt edit designed to create strong contrast in image, sound, time, scale, or emotional tone.
Sound bridge
Audio that continues across or begins before a picture transition to connect shots or scenes.
Sound design
The creative and technical shaping of sound to support story, space, emotion, and rhythm.
Sound edit
The selection, cleanup, organization, and timing of dialogue, effects, ambience, and production sound.
Sound library
An organized collection of recorded or synthesized audio assets and associated metadata.
Sound-effects edit
The selection, creation, placement, and organization of sound effects to support picture and story.
Source clip
A clip representing source media or a defined portion of it within an editing project.
Source media
Picture, sound, graphics, or other files from which an edit or master is built.
Source monitor
An editing viewer used to inspect and mark source material before placing it into a sequence.
Source patching
The mapping of source clip tracks to destination sequence tracks for an edit.
Source timecode
The timecode recorded with or assigned to original media and used to identify source frames.
Spectral repair
Audio restoration targeting localized unwanted events in a time-frequency display.
Speed ramp
A timed transition between different playback speeds within an individual shot.
Split edit
An edit in which the picture and corresponding audio change at different times.
Spotting session
A review in which filmmakers decide where music, effects, dialogue work, or other sound cues should begin and end.
ST map
A two-channel image encoding horizontal and vertical sampling coordinates for image warping.
Stem
A separately delivered submix of a defined program element group, such as dialogue, music, or effects.
Straight alpha
An alpha convention in which stored color channels are not multiplied by opacity.
Stringout
A long assembly of potentially useful material placed in sequence for review or selection.
Subclip
A project item referencing a selected range within a longer source clip.
Subtitle file
A timed-text file presenting translated or transcribed dialogue for on-screen display.
Subtitle spotting
The process of setting subtitle in and out times against picture and dialogue.
Subtitles
Timed translated or transcribed dialogue text intended to be read with picture.
Sync lock
A timeline control keeping designated tracks temporally aligned during ripple or insert operations.
Sync sound
Production audio recorded with a defined timing relationship to the corresponding picture.
Temp mix
A provisional sound mix used to evaluate story, levels, transitions, and editorial intent before final mixing.
Temp score
Existing or provisional music placed against picture to explore pacing, tone, and structure before the final score.
Textless elements
Picture elements supplied without titles or language-specific graphics for localization and versioning.
Textless master
A picture master with selected language-specific titles or graphics removed for localization.
Three-point edit
An edit defined by three marks, with the system deriving the fourth boundary.
TIFF sequence
An ordered series of Tagged Image File Format images representing successive video or film frames.
Timeline
The time-based editing interface in which tracks and clips are arranged to build a sequence.
Timeline marker
A time-positioned annotation carrying notes, ranges, labels, cues, or review status.
Title card
A full-frame graphic presenting a title, chapter, location, date, quotation, or other information.
Title-safe area
A conservative image area where essential text and graphics remain visible across displays and framing variations.
Track patching
The configuration determining which timeline tracks receive or participate in an edit.
Track targeting
Selection of timeline tracks that receive edits or respond to navigation and commands.
Transcode
The conversion of media from one encoding, container, resolution, or rate to another.
Traveling matte
A matte that changes across frames to follow a moving subject or element.
Trim
An editorial adjustment to the start, end, or relationship of clips around an edit point.
True peak
An estimate of the maximum reconstructed audio-signal level, including peaks that occur between digital samples.
Unpremultiply
The operation of dividing color channels by alpha to recover unassociated color values where defined.
UV pass
A rendered pass carrying surface texture coordinates for post-production texture placement or repair.
Variable bit rate
An encoding mode allocating more or fewer bits as picture or sound complexity changes.
Version File DCP
A supplemental digital-cinema package that reuses assets from an Original Version while replacing selected components.
Vertical interval timecode
Legacy timecode encoded into lines of the vertical blanking interval of an analog video signal.
VFX plate
A photographed source element intended to be combined with digital effects or other layers.
VOLINDEX
A DCP document identifying the volume within a multi-volume package.
Walla
Indistinct background crowd speech used to create the presence of people without foreground dialogue.
WAV file
A Waveform Audio File Format container commonly used for uncompressed PCM production and delivery audio.
Window dub
A viewing copy with timecode and often other source or production information burned into the picture.
Wipe
A transition in which a moving boundary replaces one image with another across the frame.
Wire removal
Paint and compositing work that removes visible stunt, rigging, safety, or support wires.
XML edit exchange
A structured interchange file used by editorial and finishing applications to transfer timeline information.
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