Glossary

This video glossary covers the terminology and defines the meaning of common video terms related to cameras, codecs, lighting, film set lingo, post-production workflows, and everything else you ever wanted to know about film and video production.

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There are currently 3 names in this directory beginning with the letter #.
4:2:0
A type of color subsampling where a group of four adjacent pixels is given a single color value. The lowest quality of the most common color subsampling techniques found in cameras today.

4:2:2
A type of color subsampling where a group of two adjacent horizontal pixels are given a single color value. The second-best quality of the most common color subsampling techniques found in cameras today.

4:4:4
A type of color subsampling where a group of four adjacent pixels has its own color value. The best quality of the most common color subsampling techniques found in cameras today.