Production Technology Seminar 2009 - EBU Technical
Production Technology Seminar 2009 - EBU Technical
Production Technology Seminar 2009 - EBU Technical
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Annex 1: Abbreviations and acronyms<br />
Note: Some terms may be specific to a speaker or/and his/her organization<br />
1080i/25 High-definition interlaced TV format of 1920 x 1080 pixels at 25 frames per second, i.e. 50 fields (half<br />
frames) every second<br />
1080p/25 High-definition progressively-scanned TV format of 1920 x 1080 pixels at 25 frames per second<br />
1080p/50 High-definition progressively-scanned TV format<br />
of 1920 x 1080 pixels at 50 frames per second<br />
2D Two-dimensional<br />
2k<br />
4k<br />
Horizontal definition (number of pixels) in Digital Cinema)<br />
3D Three-dimensional<br />
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project<br />
3H Three times the TV monitor/set heigth value<br />
4/3, 4:3<br />
14/9, 14:9<br />
16/9, 16:9<br />
Picture aspect ratio (width/height)<br />
4:4:4<br />
4:2:2, 422<br />
4:2:0<br />
Ratio of sampling frequencies to digitize the Luminance / Chrominance (Cb, Cr) components<br />
5.0 Left front / Centre / Right front / Left Surround / Right Surround sound channels<br />
5.1 5.0 + LFE channel (surround sound)<br />
720p/50<br />
High-definition progressively-scanned TV format<br />
of 1280 x 720 pixels at 50 frames per second<br />
AAC Advanced Audio Coding<br />
AAC+ AACplus = HE-AAC<br />
AAF Advanced Authoring Format<br />
AC Alternative Current<br />
AC3 Audio Coding 3, known as Dolby Digital<br />
AD 'Anno Domino': After the Christ's birth<br />
ADC, A/D Analog-to-Digital Conversion/Converter<br />
Ads Adverts, commercials<br />
AES Audio Engineering Society<br />
ANC Ancillary (SDI, HD-SDI)<br />
API Application Programming Interface<br />
ASD Abstract Service Definition<br />
ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode<br />
ATSC Advanced Television Systems Committee (USA)<br />
A/V Audio/Video<br />
AV Audiovisual<br />
AVC Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 Part 10 = ITU-T H.264)<br />
AVC-I Advanced Video Coding - Intra (Panasonic)<br />
AXML Audiovisual XML ??? (SAM / NRK)<br />
B Bidirectional coded picture (MPEG)<br />
B2B, BtoB Business-to-Business<br />
B2C, BtoC Business-to-Consumer<br />
BB Black Burst<br />
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation<br />
BMP BitMaP file format<br />
BR Bit-Rate<br />
C Centre (surround sound)<br />
CAC Call Admission Control (Cisco)<br />
CAD Computer-Aided Design<br />
CAM Computer-Aided Manufacturing<br />
CAPEX CAPital EXpenditures<br />
CCAAA Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations http://www.ccaaa.org/<br />
CD Compact Disc<br />
© <strong>EBU</strong> <strong>2009</strong> / <strong>Production</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> seminar / January 27 - 29, <strong>2009</strong><br />
Reproduction prohibited without written permission of <strong>EBU</strong> TECHNICAL & <strong>EBU</strong> TRAINING<br />
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