Video Editing Glossary
Assemble Edit
B-roll
Camera Shots
Close Up Shot
Cross Fade
Cutaway Shot
Dissolve
Fade In
Fade Out
Insert Edit
Medium Shot
Nonsynchronous Sound
Synchronous Sound
Two Shot / Three shot
Wide Shot
One way by which analog video can be edited. In the process of assemble edit the video is being copied onto a new master video tape, unifying the video and the audio into one signal.
Any video that is not the main theme that acts as an example of the first.
See “wide Shot”, “Medium Shot” and “Close Up Shot”.
A camera shot that shows a small part of the scene. Highly used for scenes where the details are important.
A temporarily overlap of fade-in of some source (audio or visual) and a fade-out of another.
The cutaway shot is also called “over the shoulder”, since the photographer shoots one subject over the shoulder of another subject. The cutaway shot is usually used for shooting an interviewer (over the shoulder of the interviewee).
See “Cross Fade”.
Gradually increasing image and sound.
Gradually decreasing image and sound, as contrary to “fade in”.
A process of analog video editing by which audio and video can be edited together, or separately, onto a master tape.
A camera shot that shows a limited part of the scene, as if the camera is quite close to the subject. The medium shot is commonly used for transitions between close up shots and wide shots.
The (slightly) lack of sync of audio and visuals.
A sync of words and mouth movements as a result of recording the audio and the visual all together.
A shot in which the frame has two / three people init. This shot is usually a wide shot or a medium one.
A camera shot that shows the complete scene. The wide shot is highly used in the starting point of the video pieces, since this way the viewer can get a sense of where he is.