Glossary

A

Active window: The image or movie window which receives keyboard and menu commands. The active window typically has a darker caption bar. Click on a particular window to make it active, or use the Tab key to make the next window active if you have several windows displayed.

AVI: standard file format for Microsoft Windows movie files. An acronym for Audio Video Interleaved

C

CIS: Creative Information Solutions - the company which created and supports the VIS software.

Check box:

Clipboard: temporary storage area provided by Windows. You can cut, copy, and paste text and images to and from the clipboard.

D

Dialog Box:

F

Frame

I

Image window:

K

Key frames: A frame in a movie clip that shows an important part of a skill. Key frames allow quick access to the most important frames of a movie clip. The are useful for creating movie layouts showing a few select frames and, when playing multiple movies, are used to set timing points to synchronize the movies.

M

Movie clip:

Movie window:

Movie layout:

P

Palette: set of colors that can be displayed at a single time when the Windows display adapter has a limitation on the number of colors that can be used.

Print area: image or set of images grouped together for printing

Print layout:

R

Radio button: Windows term for a set of round buttons designating a mutually exclusive group of choices. Only one button in the group can be selected -- selecting a new button clears the previous selection.

T

V

VFW: Microsoft Video For Windows

Video capture: process of taking an analog video source such as a VCR or camcorder and converting it to a digital format which can be manipulated by the computer.

VIS: Visual Instruction System