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lower third A television industry term for a graphic placed in the lower area of the screen,

usually to convey details about subjects or products. A common use of lower thirds is to identify

individuals on the screen with their names and job titles.

luma A value describing the brightness of a video image. A luma channel is a grayscale image

showing the range of brightness across the whole clip.

luma key An eect used to key out pixels of a certain luma value (or a range of luma values),

creating a matte based on the brightest or darkest area of an image. Keying out luma values

works best when your clip has a large discrepancy in exposure between the areas that you want

to key out and the foreground images you want to preserve, such as a white title on a black

background. See also chroma key, matte.

Mail Mail is the email application that comes with OS X.

markers Markers ag a specic location in a clip with editing notes or other descriptive

information. You can also use markers for task management. Markers are classied as standard

markers (blue), chapter markers (orange), to-do items (red), or completed to-do items (green).

mask An image or clip used to dene areas of transparency in another clip. Similar to an alpha

channel. The color correction tools can create masks based on a color you choose or a shape you

create. See also alpha channel.

matte Sometimes referred to as a holdout matte. An eect that uses information in one layer of

video to aect another layer. Mattes are useful when you want to use one clip to selectively hide

or reveal part of another; for example, you could use a round spotlight shape to reveal parts of

a video layer. Matte eects can be used by themselves to mask out areas of a clip or to create

alpha channel information for a clip in order to make a transparent border around the clip that

can be composited against other layers. See also alpha channel, compositing.

media A generic term for elements such as movies, sounds, and pictures.

media browsers Media that you import into events in Final Cut Pro is accessed from the

Libraries list and the Browser, but Final Cut Pro also includes a collection of media browsers you

can use to add clips to your project. The media browsers provide access to the eects, titles, and

transitions supplied with Final Cut Pro as well as to video, audio, and still-image les in other

applications on your computer. For example, you can use the Photos Browser to access video and

still-image les in the iPhoto and Aperture libraries. Other media browsers include the Eects,

Music and Sound, Transitions, Titles, Generators, and Themes Browsers. The media browsers

appear in the Media Browser pane in the lower-right corner of the Final Cut Pro main window.

media handle Additional media available before a clip start point or after a clip end point.

media stems Audio or video les that are usually exported separately for audio mixing or post-

production, or to match specications when delivering les to broadcast networks. For example,

you may need to deliver a multitrack QuickTime le along with separate dialogue, music, and

eects stems.

mixing The process of adjusting the audio levels of all audio clips in an edited program,

including the production audio, music, sound eects, voiceovers, and additional background

ambience, to turn all of these sounds into a harmonious whole.

monochrome An image presented in shades of a single color, most often as the shades of gray

in a black-and-white image.

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