Glossary: N
National Association of Broadcasters.
A brand of audiotape recorder widely used in the film production and
postproduction industries.
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A film element in which the light and dark areas are reversed
compared to the original scene; the opposite of a positive.
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A film stock designed to capture an image in the form of a negative.
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In video, an aberration that appears as very fine white specks (snow)
and that increases over multiple generations.
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In audio, a sound that is usually heard as a hiss.
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A video signal that does not contain horizontal and vertical sync pulses.
An SMPTE timecode format that continuously tracks NTSC video at a rate
of 30áfps without dropping frames to compensate for the actual 29.97-fps
rate of NTSC video. As a result, non-drop-frame timecode does not
coincide with real time. Non-drop-frame timecode is recorded with colons
between the digits; for example, 1:00:10:02.
Pertaining to instantaneous random access and manipulation of any frame
of material on any track and on any layer of an edit sequence.
A type of editing in which you do not need to assemble the program from
beginning to end. The nature of the medium and the technical process of
manipulating that medium do not dictate how the material must be
physically ordered. You can use nonlinear editing for traditional film
cutting and splicing, and for recorded or digitized video images. You can
make changes at the beginning, middle, or end of the sequence.
New Technology File System. A file system used on Windows computers.
National Television Standards Committee. The group that established the
color television transmission system used in the United States, using 525
lines of information scanned at a rate of approximately 30áfps.
