A Mouthful of Words for the Wise (page 2)
Cut
Another word for edit. In olden times film editors actually cut and spliced film with glorified razor blades. Video editing is electronic and one need never touch the tape at all. As a matter of fact, keep your hands off it. The oil and dirt from your fingers can damage the heads.
Dissolve
Transition effect of one picture slowly disappearing as another appears, executed with a switcher.
Donut
Pastry consumed with coffee. Also, a master tape with the same beginning and end that has a "hole" in the middle where different pieces of information can be dropped in. (Like a national commercial for an automobile manufacturer with inserts featuring local dealer prices.)
DVE
Digital Video Effect, and the machine that produces DVEs. When the picture squeezes into infinity or flies around the screen it's being manipulated by …
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