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Acronyms

 

 

 

 

AGC
AIF/AIFF
AIV
API
ATA
ATSC

AV

AVI
BMP
BNC
CAV
CD
CG
CMS
CMYK
DAS
DAT
DCDM
DCP
DDR
DFTC
DI
DPX
DTV
DVD
DVI
EDL
ENG
FAT
FC-AL
FCC
FIFO
FMV
FPS
FTP
GPI
GUI
HD

HDBaseT

HDMI
HD-SDI
HDEP
HDTV
HSDL
IP
I/O
JBOD
JPEG
LCD

LED
LTC
LVD

MACRO
MPEG

MOV
MXF
NAB
NAS
NTFS
NTSC
OEM
OMF
PAL
PCI
RAID
RAM
RF
ROM
SAN
SAS
SATA
SCSI
SD
SDI
S/N
SMART
SMTP
SMPTE
S-Video
TBD
TCP
TIFF
USB
VANC
VITC
VTR
WMV

 

Generally Accepted Broadcast Term Acronyms

 

Automatic Gain Control
Audio Interchange (File) Format
Audio in Video
Application Program Interface
Advanced Technology Attachment
Advanced Television Systems Committee

Audio Visual

Microsoft Audio Video Interleaved
Bitmap (abbreviation)
British Naval Connector
Component Analog Video
Compact Disk
Computer Graphics
Content Management System
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black
Direct Attached Storage
Digital Audio Tape
Digital Cinema Distribution Master
Digital Cinema Package (abbreviation)
Digital Disk Recorder
Drop-Frame Time Code
Digital Intermediate
Digital Picture Exchange
Digital Television
Digital Versatile Disk
Digital Visual Interface
Edit Decision List
Electronic News Gathering 
File Allocation Table
Channel Arbitrated Loop
Frame Count Cuing
API First In First Out Application Program Interface
Full Motion Video
Frames Per Second
File Transfer Protocol
General Purpose Interface
Graphical User Interface
High Definition

High Definition Twisted Pair Ethernet

High Definition Multimedia Interface
High Definition Serial Digital Interface
High Definition Electronic Production
High Definition Television
High Speed Data Link
Internet Protocol
Input/Output
Just A Bunch of Disks
Joint Photographic Expert Group
Liquid Crystal Display

Light Emitting Diode
Linear Time Code
Low Voltage Differential

Macine Assembled Code for Routine Opertations
Moving Picture Experts Group

Apple QuickTime Movie
Material Exchange Format
National Association of Broadcasters
Network Attached Storage
New Technology File System
National Television System Committee
Original Equipment Manufacturer
Open Media Framework
Phase Alternating Line
Peripheral Component Interface
Redundant Array of Independent Disks
Random Access Memory
Radio Frequency
Read Only Memory
Storage Area Network
Serial Attached SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)
Serial ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment)
Small Computer System Interface
Standard Definition
Serial Digital Interface
Signal to Noise Ratio
Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Separated Video
Time Base Corrector
Transport Control Protocol
Tag Image File Format
Universal Serial Bus
Vertical Ancillary Data
Vertical Interval Time Code
Video Tape Recorder

Windows Media Video

 

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