{"id":3460,"date":"2017-06-12T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/?page_id=3460"},"modified":"2018-03-22T11:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T18:55:58","slug":"editing-terms-to-know","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/post-production-aka-editing\/the-editing-process\/editing-terms-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing Terms to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brief list of video editing terms; there is plenty more to know that have been compiled elsewhere, from sites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/blog\/post\/glossary-of-common-video-terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vimeo.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videomaker.com\/article\/c16\/8872-jargon-video-editing-terms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">videomaker.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Camera shot and editing terms<\/h2>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few basics terms to know:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Long shot, medium, and close-up shots. There is a variety of other shots that combine these terms, such as extreme close up, or medium close-up, but the first three are the basic ones to know. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhphotovideo.com\/explora\/video\/tips-and-solutions\/filmmaking-101-camera-shot-types\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a break down of shots by Bhphotovideo.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Movement of cameras: Pan, zoom, dolly; for photos, pan-and-scan, i.e. the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ken_Burns_effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ken Burns effect<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J_cut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J-cut<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/L_cut\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">l-cut<\/a> edits &#8211; used often in any edited piece.<\/li>\n<li>Voiceover (VO) &#8211; Any audio narration by someone while another scene plays out visually.<\/li>\n<li>Sound ducking: When VO occurs and music is playing, the music volume is lowered (ducked) so the VO is more audible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Video transitions<\/h2>\n<p>Transitions are the change between one media clip and another media clip in a timeline. Here&#8217;s a few common transitions:<\/p>\n<h3>Jump cut<\/h3>\n<p>Change in action; sometimes implies same time period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Example: A wide shot of people walking thru forest, then cut to a close up as someone trips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dissolve (to another video\/image clip)<\/h3>\n<p>Sometimes implies a change in time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Example: A shot of people walking thru a forest, then dissolving into another shot of people walking through a different section of the forest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fade (to black\/white)<\/h3>\n<p>Implies an ending of some sort.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Example: A medium shot of person going to sleep, fade to black.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a brief list of video editing terms; there is plenty more to know that have been compiled elsewhere, from sites such as vimeo.com and videomaker.com. Camera shot and editing terms Here&#8217;s a few basics terms to know: Long shot, medium, and close-up shots. There is a variety of other shots that combine these &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/developing-a-multimedia-project\/post-production-aka-editing\/the-editing-process\/editing-terms-to-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Editing Terms to Know&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":3629,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"parent_template.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[111,6,108,112],"class_list":["post-3460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-multimedia","tag-video","tag-video-editing","tag-video-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3460\/revisions\/3647"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/ed-tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}