- Mark In
The process of indicating with a mark in the Timeline the first frame of a clip to be used.
- Mark Out
The process of indicating with a mark in the Timeline the last frame of a clip to be used.
- Markers
Location indicators that can be placed on a clip or in a sequence to help you find a specific place while you edit. Can be used to sync action between two clips, identify beats of music, mark a reference word from a narrator, and so on.
- Marquee
When dragging the pointer over items in the Browser or Timeline, the dashed lines that create a rectangular area used to select items in that area.
- Mark in Sync
Placing a marker that labels the audio from another source as being in sync with a selected video clip. This disables the normal out-of-sync warnings.
- Mask
An image or clip used to define areas of transparency in another clip. Similar to an alpha channel.
- Master clip
The status given to a clip when it is the first time that clip is used in a project. It is the clip from which other affiliate clips, such as sequence clips and subclips, are created.
- Master shot
A single, long shot of some dramatic action from which shorter cuts such as close-ups and medium shots are taken in order to fill out the story.
- Mastering mode
A mode in the Edit to Tape window that lets you output additional elements such as color bars and tone, a slate, and a countdown when you output your program to tape.
- Match Frame
A command that looks at the clip in the Timeline at the playhead, and puts that clip's master into the Viewer. The position of the playhead in the Viewer matches that of the playhead in the Canvas, so both the Canvas and the Viewer will display the same frame, and the In and Out points of the clip in your sequence will be matched to those of the copy in the Viewer. In addition, all the original source material for this clip will also be displayed.
- Matte
An effect, such as a widescreen matte or a garbage matte, that hides or reveals a part of a clip.
- Media file
A generic term for captured or acquired elements such as QuickTime movies, sounds, and pictures.
- Media Manager
A tool that helps you manage your projects, media files, and available disk space quickly and easily in Final Cut Pro without using the Finder.
- Midtones
The middle brightness range of an image. Not the very brightest part, nor the very darkest part.
- Mono audio
A single track of audio.
- Motion Blur
An effect that blurs any clip with keyframed motion applied to it, similar to blurred motion recorded by a camera.
- Motion path
A path that appears in the Canvas when Image+Wireframe mode is selected and a clip has Center keyframes applied to it.
- MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)
A group of compression standards for video and audio, which includes MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-3 (referred to as MP3), and MPEG-4.
- Multicam editing
This feature lets you simultaneously play back and view shots from multiple sources and cut between them in real time.
- Multiclip
A clip that allows you to group together multiple sources as separate angles and cut between them, up to 128 angles, of which 16 can be played back at a time.
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