European Broadcasting Union. A standards-setting organization in which only users (not vendors) have a voice.

See also AES/EBU.

Extreme close-up.

See edge numbers, key numbers.

A filter that applies anti-aliasing to graphics created in the Title tool.

Sequential numbers mechanically printed or optically exposed along the edge of a strip of film to assist in matching negatives to work prints.

To assemble film or video, audio, effects, titles, and graphics to create a sequence.

An electronic device, often computer-based, that allows an editor to precisely control, play, and record to various videotape machines.

In compositions, a measure of the number of editable units per second in a piece of media data (for example, 30áfps for NTSC, 25áfps for PAL, and 24áfps for film).

Edit decision list. A list of edits made during offline editing and used to direct the online editing of the master.

See also cut list.

The manipulation of an audio or a video signal. Types of film or video effects include special effects (F/X) such as morphing; simple effects such as dissolves, fades, superimpositions, and wipes; complex effects such as keys and DVEs; motion effects such as freeze frame and slow motion; and title and character generation. Effects usually have to be rendered because most systems cannot accommodate multiple video streams in real time.

See also rendering.

Electronic Industries Association. The largest trade organization that covers the television and audio fields. EIA publishes a catalog of standards; the most important standards to the television and audio industries are the ones developed by its Parts Division and its Consumer Electronics Group.

The assembly of a finished video program in which scenes are joined without physically splicing the tape. Electronic editing requires at least two decks: one for playback and the other for recording.

A C-mode edit decision list (EDL) in which all effects (dissolves, wipes, and graphic overlays) are performed at the end.

See also A-mode, B-mode, C-mode, D-mode, source mode.

The display of audio waveforms as a graph of the relative loudness of an audio signal.

The balancing of various frequencies to create a pleasing sound by attenuating or boosting specific frequencies within the sound.

A number assigned by the editing system to each performed edit. In most computer editing systems, an event defines an action or a sequence of actions performed by the computer in a single pass of the record tape.

To remove a selected area from an edited sequence and to close the resulting gap in the sequence.

A tool for taking a color from a screen image and using that color for text or graphics.