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Tektronix provides test and measurement instruments, solutions and services for the computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics and education industries worldwide.
Distortion which occurs in sound reproduction as a result of undesired speed variations during recording or reproducing. Flutter occurring at frequencies below approximately 6 Hz is termed “wow.”
Industry:Entertainment
Magnetic field generated by a record head, stored on magnetic tape, and picked up by the playback head. Also the magnetic field that exists between the poles of a magnet.
Industry:Entertainment
The erase head mounted on the spinning (flying) video head drum. Facilitates smooth, seamless edits whenever the camcorder recording begins. Without a flying erase head, a video “glitch” may occur at scene transitions.
Industry:Entertainment
A 180-degree change in the flux pattern of a magnetic medium brought about by the reversal of the magnetic poles within the medium.
Industry:Entertainment
A video head that engages when the video deck is on “pause,” providing a clear still-frame image.
Industry:Entertainment
A fly-through is a type of animation where a moving observer flies through a seemingly stationary world.
Industry:Entertainment
Adjustment made to the focal length of the lens, designed to create a sharper, more defined picture.
Industry:Entertainment
A measure of the amount of light falling on an object (its illumination). This is a measure only of the light energy that can be seen by the human eye (becoming an obsolete unit; replaced by the Lux).
1 foot candle = 1 lumen per square foot
Industry:Entertainment
A term used to describe a picture condition in which the edge following a white object is overshaded toward black. The object appears to have a trailing black border. Also called “trailing reversal.”
Industry:Entertainment
A measurement of the brightness of an object. If 100 foot candles are illuminating a 60% white chip, its brightness will be 60 foot lamberts, regardless of viewing distance. Again, remember that brightness is measured over the same energy response of a human eye (becoming an obsolete unit; replaced by the Nit).
Industry:Entertainment
