D to F

Terms from "dBFS" to "full-size check".

• dBFS (decibels below digital full scale). A level measured against the loudest a digital file can hold, which is 0 dBFS. Sound design and mix → Planned silence and playback compression

• dBTP (decibels true peak). The unit of true peak, the highest level a waveform reaches, including between samples. Sound design and mix → Loudness: −23 TV, −16 online, −14 short social

• (decided). A house rule, settled for how these films are made; no evidence label. Start here → Who it is for, and how to read it

• Delivery check. Every export measured by tools and checked by eye; one failed line fails the file. Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → Exports and the delivery check

• Delivery map. Option: use it when a hero line plays flat [single strong source]. A prompt block of direction, never spoken. Speaking shots and lip sync → Harder speaking shots

• Designed effect. A sound reality can't give, made in ElevenLabs Sound Effects from a physical description. Sound design and mix → Designed effects with ElevenLabs

• Detailed Brief. The first client document: their problem shown more clearly, ending on the meeting's questions. The brief and research → The Detailed Brief and the meeting

• Diagonal field of view. How every lens is written: the frame's diagonal in degrees, from one ladder. Camera and lens → Lenses in degrees

• Digital zero. Silence under −90 dBFS for 0.1 s or more; a planned silence drops to room tone instead. Sound design and mix → Planned silence and playback compression

• Director acceptance. Your own ear's pass on your own dialect or MSA, never recorded as "native-checked". The brief and research → Dialect rules

• Director's cut. Your internal cut, made once per music option on a private page and judged by you before the client sees any edit; never sent. Editing → The director's cut and the client's rough cut

• DOP (director of photography). The head of camera and light; a word kept off client pages. The stages and gates → Writing for the client

• Draft. A 480p take, judged for motion, staging, camera and acting; never for faces, labels or lips. Video with Seedance → Draft and finish

• Draft Mode. Seedance's setting for the 480p draft. Where it refuses a job, draft at 720p. Whether it takes an audio reference is not yet confirmed. Video with Seedance → Platform facts and settings

• Dry take. The studio-dry recording, kept switched off beneath its placed copy. Sound design and mix → The placed voice

• earshot. A free, open-source listening aid that reports where each effect lands against the cut and which cues have no audible sound; your ear decides [best available, not yet validated]. Sound design and mix → The earshot listening check

• EBU R 128. The European broadcast loudness standard; any meter built to it reads integrated loudness, short-term loudness and true peak. Sound design and mix → Loudness: −23 TV, −16 online, −14 short social

• Edit pass. A model edit of a near-miss still, up to two, then a fresh image. No pixel fixes. Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → Edit passes, then a fresh image

• Editable timeline. Every asset, the approved take on top, every earlier take stacked beneath. Editing → The editable timeline

• Engine text. What the voice engine reads: vowel marks, numbers as words, English in Arabic script. Voice and Arabic dialects → Three texts per line

• Every-frame check. Every frame of a label's used window checked at full size, letter by letter. Video with Seedance → Product and labels in motion

• Expected figure. The first of an estimate line's two figures: what the line should cost at its risk band's expected rate. The ceiling is the second. Planning, budgets and takes → Costs and the estimate

• Extension. A generation carrying an action past the end of the last (Template D); never a fix. Video with Seedance → Joins, endings, extension and the video edit

• Eyeline. Where a character looks, written for each character whose eyes read: the side of the lens, the target, the height and how tight. Performance → The eyeline

• Face motion test. One internal motion check of a candidate face before the treatment goes out. A draft and its 1080p finish; the face is judged on the finish. It is the same kind of step as the place motion check: an internal check of one candidate asset, a face or a place, not of a method, made before the client sees it. Writing the treatment → Face motion tests

• Failure levels. 1 references, 2 structure, 3 camera, 4 style and audio; fix the lowest first. Video with Seedance → The failure table

• Feasibility pass. Every moment the models may not deliver, solved before the client sees the treatment. Writing the treatment → The feasibility pass

• Feed edit. An online version rebuilt for the feed: the treatment writes its first 5 s and the client approves them; a vertical version's opening shots are generated natively in 9:16. Graphics, captions, versions and delivery → Versions

• Finish (the 1080p finish). The 1080p version of an approved draft, nothing changed; faces, hands, labels and lips are judged here (Video with Seedance → Draft and finish). Finishing is something else: Stage 07, the grade, graphics, captions, versions and delivery (The grade and texture → The colourists' order).

• Fixed set. The plate owns the set for the whole shot; the talent and the place stay alive. Video with Seedance → The fixed set and the live place

• Fixed voice description. One plain description per character, never a name, pasted unchanged wherever Seedance voices them. Speaking shots and lip sync → English lines and Seedance's own voice

• Foley. The small sounds of handled objects, steps and cloth. Sound design and mix → Three layers and the order of the sound work

• Franco quote (Franco line). A Route 1 variant for an Egyptian line, using the take spelled in Latin letters. Speaking shots and lip sync → Route 1, for close-up hero lines

• Free measurement. What takes made anyway can tell you, at no cost. No take is made to check a method. Planning, budgets and takes → Free measurements from takes made anyway

• Full-size check. Every image checked at 100% before it is filed or used. Photoreal anchors (Nano Banana Pro) → The full-size check