Short for Audio Interchange File Format, an 8-bit sound file format developed by Apple.
alpha channel
In color images, the fourth channel after the red, green, and blue channels. In black-and-white images, the second channel after the luminance channel.
animation
The process of creating imagery on a frame-by-frame basis either by hand or digitally.
Audio Panel
A tool used to read in AIFF or WAV files, mix them together, extract animation curves based on the audio frequency, and manipulate the timing of the sound.
