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Tektronix provides test and measurement instruments, solutions and services for the computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics and education industries worldwide.
a) Titles that move slowly up the screen, mounted on a revolving drum.
b) An appearance of motion in an image where there should be none. See also Chroma Crawl and Line Crawl.
Industry:Entertainment
a) A computer used to electronically generate text and sometimes graphics for video titles or captions which can be superimposed over a video signal. Text is usually entered via a keyboard, allowing selection of various fonts, sizes, colors, styles, and background colors, then stored as multiple pages for retrieval.
b) An electronic device that generates video letters for use as captions in television productions.
The output of the character generator is often used as an external key input to the switcher.
c) Circuit that forms the letters or numbers on a display or printer.
Industry:Entertainment
Listing of actors, singers, directors, etc., in title preceding or directly following the program.
Industry:Entertainment
An aspect or parameter of a particular television system that is different from another system’s, but not necessarily a defect.
Characteristics include aspect ratio, colorimetry, resolution, and sound bandwidth.
Industry:Entertainment
A means of increasing picture sharpness by generating and applying a second time derivative of the original signal.
Industry:Entertainment
a) A semiconductor device that converts optical images to electronic signals. CCDs are the most commonly found type of image sensor in consumer camcorders and video cameras.
b) Serial storage technology that uses MOS capacitors. c) A solid-state image sensor that converts light energy to electricity.
Industry:Entertainment
Term used for the action of moving left, right, top, and bottom boundaries of a key.
Industry:Entertainment
Used to select from a list of related items. An “x” marks the selected options in the corresponding box. (Select as many items as desired – one, none, or all.)
Industry:Entertainment
A digital process which removes areas of a picture (frame) by replacing video pixels with opaque pixels of background colors. Cropping may be used to eliminate unwanted picture areas such as edges or as quasi-masking in preparation for keying.
Industry:Entertainment
Automatic assembly process where all edits from mounted reels are made, and edits for unmounted reels are skipped. Example: Reels 5, 29, and 44 are mounted on VTRs. The editing system looks at the list and assembles all edits that have reel numbers 5, 29, and 44 assigned to them, inserting these events at the exact spot on the master tape where they belong.
Industry:Entertainment
