The Editor's Toolkit

Appendix 4

Abbreviations

I know how annoying abbreviations can be if you are not so familiar with the terminology. Here is a list of the ones I have used in this book but for which I may not have alluded to their meaning every time.

¼˝—Analogue audio tape format

2S—Two-shot

2S FAV X or Y—Two-shot favouring X or Y

3S—Three-shot

AAF—Advanced authoring format

ADR—Additional dialogue recording

atmos—Atmospheric sound backgrounds

AV—A simultaneous sound and vision cut

BAFTA—British Academy of Film and Television Arts

BBC—British Broadcasting Corporation

CGI—Computer-generated imagery

CRT—Cathode ray tube

CU—Close-up

dB—Decibel (level of sound measurement)

DOP—Director of photography

DSP—Digital signal processing

ECU—Extreme close-up

EDL—Edit decision ...