Glossary of Terms

Key Terms
Video Formats	Video formats is technology of electrically capturing, recording, processing, string, transmitting and constructing a sequence of still images representing scenes of motion, for example, AVI – which is used for Microsoft audio and video.
Streaming	Streaming is videos which are constantly available for people to receive and view.
File Compression	File compression is a way of shrinking files and documents so that less storage is being used. A positive of file compression that the file is small enough to be sent around in emails and a negative of file compression is that the file will not be of a high resolution, resulting bad quality and the quality of sound wouldn’t be the same.
Aspect Ratio	Aspect ratio is the viewing height and width in which is shown on screen. For example the most popular ratio used on screens is 16:9 and 4:3.
Frame Rates	Frame rates are the amount of images and frames which are being displayed per second on the screen.