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890Final Cut Pro User Guide
event When you import video, audio, and still images, or record directly into Final Cut Pro,
the source media files (your raw footage) are stored in events. An event is similar to a
folder that can hold dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of video clips, audio clips, and
still images, as well as projects. Each event in the library refers to media on your Mac or a
storage device, and a database file keeps track of where everything is.
event viewer A separate video display that appears next to the main viewer and is used to
play clips from the browser only.
exposure The amount of light in video or film images. Exposure affects the overall
brightness of the image as well as its perceived contrast.
fade A common type of transition in both video and audio. For video, a fade-out begins
with a shot at full intensity and reduces until it is gone. A fade-in begins with a shot at no
intensity and increases to full intensity. These are the common “fade to black” and “fade
up (from black)” transitions. Audio fade-ins begin with silence and increase to full volume,
and fade-outs begin at full volume and decrease to silence.
filmstrip Your video clips appear as filmstrips in the timeline (where you build projects)
and in the browser (where your source clips are displayed). A single video filmstrip might
represent several seconds of video encompassing hundreds of video frames (individual
images). Audio-only clips appear as audio waveforms, showing the change in the audio
volume over time.
FireWire The trademarked Apple name for the IEEE 1394 standard. A fast and versatile
interface used to connect DV camcorders to computers. FireWire is well suited to
applications that move large amounts of data, and it can also be used to connect external
storage devices, scanners, and other kinds of computer peripherals. See also Thunderbolt.
Foley effects Custom sound effects that are heavily synced to picture, such as footsteps
on different surfaces, clothes rustling, fight sounds, and the handling of various noisy
objects. Final Cut Pro includes a number of built-in Foley and other sound effects that you
can insert as connected audio clips. See also connected clip.
frame A single still image. Film and video are made up of a series of these images.
Although a film frame is a single photographic image, an interlaced video frame contains
two fields. See also interlaced video, non-interlaced video.
frame blending Duplicating frames to create slow motion can result in a strobing, jittery
effect. To minimize this, you can turn on Frame Blending in the Retime pop-up menu below
the viewer. Frame blending creates new in-between frames, each a composite of two
neighboring frames.
frame rate The number of images photographed per second for a video clip.
frame size See resolution.
frequency The number of times a sound or signal vibrates each second, measured in
cycles per second, or hertz (Hz). Audio recordings are made up of a vast collection of
waveforms, using many different frequencies of sound. Each frequency in a recording is
associated with an audio pitch. For example, the note generated by each key of a piano has
a specific frequency. See also pitch.
gain The amount an audio or video signal is boosted. In video, this increases the white
level; in audio, this increases the volume.