A tiny piece of text information a web site can place on your machine to hold info about you, your web viewing preferences, or whatever the web site might want to put there. Cracker Someone who, with malicious intent, unlawfully breaches the secuirty of computer systems. The simplest transition from one scene to the next. When one scene ends, the next one begins, with no special effects attached to the transition. This process is particularly important to non-linear editing.
Digitization occurs as the video and audio signals are fed into the computer.
List of the most often asked questions and answers about a particular subject or area of knowledge. A newsgroup phenomenon in which two or more persons get involved in postings that are intentionally inflammatory, derogatory, or argumentative. The communication language computers speak to access information on the World Wide Web. A process of editing film or video in which scenes are assembled one following another in linear time. That is, the series of scenes must be edited in the same order in which they will be viewed.