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Terms from "AAC" to "button".

• AAC. The compressed audio inside most MP4 files. Encoding raises peaks, so on AAC aim the true peak 0.5 dB lower: −1.5 dBTP. Sound design and mix → Loudness: −23 TV, −16 online, −14 short social

• Alias. A short name for a character, place or object, declared once after its tag. Video with Seedance → Attaching references

• Anchor. (1) A new, consistently designed image of a character, place, product, prop or style, made once and attached to every shot of its subject; voices are anchors too (Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → What an anchor is). (2) In the mix, speech is the anchor: every other sound is balanced to it (Sound design and mix → The mix with speech as the anchor). A plate's anchor object is a visible landmark later shots stage against (Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → Location plates).

• Anchor line. A character's identity line: alias and tag, age, role, current state, features, what each hand holds. Video with Seedance → The two identity blocks

• Anchors presentation. The fourth client document: every approved anchor, before any production video. Client presentations → The anchors presentation, in its twelve sections

• API. The interface a service offers to programs, beside its web app; ElevenLabs quotes its prices for the API. Voice and Arabic dialects → The voice route

• Attempt. One draft, or one direct 1080p take; a 1080p finish belongs to its draft's attempt. Planning, budgets and takes → Costs and the estimate

• AUDIO block. Prompt block 15: the space, room tone, two to six timed sounds, one off-screen layer. Video with Seedance → Sound inside the shot

• Audio-driven plate. Route 1: a speaking plate on which Seedance acts to the approved recording; the exact take still ships, through Sync-3. Speaking shots and lip sync → Route 1, for close-up hero lines

• Back-check. Every voice take transcribed and compared word by word with its canonical line. Voice and Arabic dialects → Measured checks and the back-check

• Bar line. (1) In music, the line between two bars of the beat grid; a music-first film lays its shot windows and cuts on them (Music → The music-first route). (2) For a concept, the one line that sets an idea beside the nearest award film on the idea bar's three points (The idea → The idea bar).

• Beat. In the plan, one thing the viewer must see or hear (Planning, budgets and takes → Marking the beats). In acting, a change in what a character is doing (Performance → Size for the frame).

• Bed. A continuous sound under a scene: an ambience or room tone. Sound design and mix → Three layers and the order of the sound work

• [best available, not yet validated]. The label for a method with no creator proof yet, used because nothing better exists. Start here → Who it is for, and how to read it

• BPM (beats per minute). A track's tempo. Suno's Songs have no tempo control, so you write it in Styles and measure it on every take. Music → Suno controls and starting values

• Breathing frame. A handheld camera swaying with the operator's breath; only as a named exception. Camera and lens → Named locks and breathing frames

• BT.709 (Rec.709). The colour standard of HD video; every master is checked for it. Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → Exports and the delivery check

• Build (built moment). A moment whose label or copy must read, made from real photography or artwork by one of the build routes. Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → Built label moments

• Button. (1) In music, the hard final hit that ends a piece (Editing → Only the hit points land on the music). (2) In the edit, the last beat, look, sound or hit after the final line, timed to the film's rhythm, that lands the end (Editing → The editorial pass).