Exam 11: Sound and Video Recording

Now that we live in a digital age, old audio and videotape formats can no longer be used or viewed.

The term ___________ refers to the transmission speed of a compressed audio stream during playback expressed in kilobits per second (Kbps).

A(n) ___________ is an internal or external camera lens component used to reduce the intensity of light striking the image sensor without altering its color temperature.

Digital recording made it possible for a copy of a copy of a copy to be identical to the master recording every time.

The techniques of sampling was pioneered by British engineer Alec Reeves in 1937, who conceived of the process of ___________ for the transmission of speech over long-distance telephone lines.

The technologies of file-based recording increased the industry's dependency on videotape as a storage medium.

A(n) ___________ is a unique kind of digital file format used for bundling and storing the raw digital bitstreams that codecs encode.

___________ is a term used to describe the method a device or software application uses to numerically represent a multimedia asset in binary form.

A ___________ is a computer program or algorithm designed for encoding and decoding audio and/or video into raw digital bitstreams.

The process of recording a digital audio and video signal directly to disk is broadly referred to as ___________.

____________ is the process of converting a digital file from one format (or codec) to another.

A digital recording stores information as a continual uninterrupted electronic signal.

The ___________ initiative concerned itself primarily with developing a method for encoding and distributing full-bandwidth HD video to the home video consumer.

An audio sample rate of 48 kHz has long been the industry-standard for recorded music.

Which of the following is a multimedia container format released by Apple Computer in 1991?

Which of the following device settings is not represented by the acronym FWIGSS?

_________ was the first compression codec designed specifically for storing music on a portable audio player.

Which of the following statements is true of WAV and AIFF file formats?

The main purpose of a compression codec is to do which of the following?

A(n) ____________ is a publically released specification or set of specifications used in the design of a product, process, or protocol.