Camcorder
(abbr. CAM) |
A movie is taped in a theater with a camcorder. The video may
be dark or not centered. Audience noise may be heard. The picture
quality is usually OK but the sound is mostly very bad and hard to
make out speech. |
Telesync
(abbr. TS) |
Also taped in a theater, but often with a better camcorder on a
tripod, with direct feed from the theater sound system. The sound and
video are then merged and synchronized. The audience should not be
heard, and these are generally watchable. |
Screener
(abbr. SC, SCR) |
A promotional VHS tape sent to censors, movie stores, and critics
for preview. A copyright message may appear in video. The quality is
usually as good as a commercial VCD. |
Telecine
(abbr. TC) |
A digital copy is made from the film itself using a special
machine. Ripped in either widescreen (letterbox) or in full-screen
(pan and scan) with excellent audio and video. The most common way
is to get a device that you attach to the reel that generates a VHS
tape of the reel. (called a telecine machine, but there are other
machines that generate a digital output of both audio and video that
are then put into a laptop or VCR and made into a VCD). |
Workprint
(abbr. WP) |
A pre-final cut copy of the film; may be incomplete. Good audio
quality but visual quality can vary. These may differ in content from
the final release of the film, as they are still being modified, and
they can sometimes be incomplete. |
| DVD Rip |
Video and audio stored on a DVD disc are decoded, then written to a
file. DVD rips usually feature the best quality, some even approaching
actual DVD quality video and sound. |
For technical quality of video and audio presentation,
the order from worst to best is:
WP < CAM < TS < SCR < TC < VHS < VCD < DVD (in general)
|
| DivX |
A DivX media file features MPEG-4 compression video with MPEG-3
compression audio. Typical MPEG media files feature MPEG-2 video and
MPEG-1 audio. DivX allows for smaller file sizes with much better
quality than any other mainstream codec. |
| Codec |
COmpression/DECompression.
Codecs are drivers which allow your computer to play various media
types. |
| Subbed |
This indicates movie subtitles, sometimes only 1, but others
have 2 or 3 subtitles on them, taking up large portions of the
screen. |
| Watermarks |
The little BD, A, or Z (among others) symbols on the movie.
They are generally added by people in Asia who rip the movie. |
| LIMITED |
Shown in fewer than 500 theaters. |
| STV |
Straight to video. |
| DUPE |
Duplicate; already ripped before. |
| BAD FPS |
Does not follow the scene standard ~24 frames per second. |
| SE |
Special edition DVD. |
| RERIP |
The movie was ripped again, usually because of problems
with a previous release. |
| INTERLACED |
Analog or digital video can be classified as interlaced or
non-interlaced (progressive scan). Video programs using the NTSC,
PAL, and SECAM standards are interlaced: Each frame consists of
two fields displayed in two passes. Most personal computers display
using progressive scan, in which all lines in a frame are displayed
in one pass from top to bottom before the next frame appears.
Interlaced video will appear wavy to the trained eye.
|
| BAD IVTC |
IVTC (inverse telecine) is the process of converting a 30fps
movie into 24fps to save space. picture will appear jerky to the
trained eye. |
| PROPER |
A previous release of this movie was poor and this one is
supposedly better. |
| NUKE |
There are two different types of nuking. the first is site
specific. a site will nuke a release if it does not comply with
their rules. the other is a global nuke (meaning most every site
nukes it) when a release is a DUPE or has something wrong with it.
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| DC |
Director's cut. |
