Authoring : The process of creating a DVD. Making menus, buttons, links, tracks, stories and slideshows.
Capturing : The process of transferring footage from the camera tapes to the computer.
Codec : A codec is a type of digital device or program which can compress and decompress data, popular containers for Codecs are in imaging - Jpegs, Tiffs - or in video - Mov, AVI or WMV.
Editing : Cutting and pasting sequences into a programmes running order, typically beginning with an offline edit where all footage is sorted and edited at low resolution. Then proceeded by an online edit where only the used footage in the programme is captured to make the final high quality programme.
Encode : The process of turning one digital format into another - typically from raw camera footage to DVD or web movies.
Format : The most common TV formats are PAL, used principally in Europe and NTSC, used in USA and Japan.
PAL has 576 lines of resolution and runs at 25 frames per second whereas NTSC has 480 lines and a frame rate of 30.
MPEG : A number of codecs begin with this prefix - typically, MPEG2, used for DVDs and broadcast TV.
Also, MPEG4 is now widely used, as it is scalable for use encoding web movies right up to High Definition DVDs.
Transcode : The process of turning one digital format into another - typically from lossy codecs to a raw intermediate format, before encoding to a different lossy codec.
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