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The horizontal distortion that occurs when shooting with anamorphic lenses.

A lens that compresses wide horizontal images onto standard formats to achieve widescreen cinematography

A full‑sphere surround sound technique capturing audio from all directions.

Ambient Occlusion (AO) is a shading method used in 3D computer graphics to create soft, realistic contact shadows.

An all-nighter is a film shoot that begins in the evening and continues until sunrise the next morning to capture scenes set at night.

A tabular transfer format for editorial metadata used in Avid workflows.

AI-generated music is any musical composition created through artificial intelligence processes, posing new opportunities and copyright challenges for film scoring.

AI rotoscoping is a revolutionary visual effects process that uses machine learning algorithms to automate the painstaking task of isolating subjects from their background in video footage.

AI frame interpolation is a technique that uses artificial intelligence to generate new, intermediate frames between existing ones in a video sequence, effectively smoothing motion or increasing the frame rate.

AI ADR is the process of using artificial intelligence and voice cloning technology to perform Automated Dialogue Replacement, creating or altering dialogue in post-production without the actor.

Capturing images from the sky reshapes scale, geography, and narrative perspective in motion pictures.

An ADR supervisor orchestrates post-production dialogue replacement to fix or enhance spoken lines.

An ADR note is a specific instruction from the director or sound supervisor indicating that a line of dialogue needs to be re-recorded in post-production.

Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR) is the post-production process of re-recording an actor's dialogue in a studio to replace the original on-set audio.

Automated Dialogue Replacement re-records speech to fix, enhance, or transform on-set performances.

An action line is the descriptive text in a screenplay, written in the present tense, that details what the audience sees and hears in a scene.

Action formatting refers to the paragraphs of descriptive text in a screenplay that convey a character's physical actions, the setting's appearance, and key visual or auditory information.

Action description is the component of the scene description that details the specific, observable movements, gestures, and physical actions of the characters.

A high dynamic range, wide gamut color space for visual effects and compositing in the ACES workflow.

An ACES Output Device Transform (ODT) is the final step in the ACES color workflow that accurately converts the master image for viewing on a specific display, such as a TV or cinema projector.

An ACES Input Device Transform (IDT) is the crucial first step in a modern color workflow that converts footage from a camera's proprietary format into the standardized ACES color space.

The 1.37:1 frame size adopted by Hollywood for sound‐on‐film compatibility

An A11y Pass is a comprehensive quality assurance review in film production and distribution to ensure the final product is accessible to audiences with sensory disabilities.

A nine‑channel surround configuration adding front wide channels for greater frontstage width.

70mm is a wide, high-resolution film gauge used to create an epic, immersive cinematic experience with superior image clarity and detail.

An eight‑channel surround sound system adding rear surrounds for enhanced immersion.

A six‑channel surround sound configuration standard in cinemas and home theaters.

A 4K scan is the process of digitizing a physical film element at a resolution of approximately 4000 horizontal pixels to create a high-quality digital master.

3D, or stereoscopic, filmmaking is a technique that creates the illusion of three-dimensional depth in an image by presenting two slightly different perspectives to the viewer's eyes.

35mm is the standard gauge of photographic film that was the dominant format for motion picture photography and projection for over a century.

A 2K scan is the process of digitizing a motion picture film frame at a standard resolution of approximately 2048 pixels horizontally, a cornerstone of the digital intermediate workflow.

A 22.2 mix is the ultra-immersive, 24-channel surround sound format developed by NHK for Japan's 8K 'Super Hi-Vision' broadcast standard.

A 12.1 mix is a channel-based immersive audio format, associated with the Auro-3D system, that adds a distinct height layer to traditional surround sound for a three-dimensional effect.