X5

Glossary 371
Motherboard
This is the centerpiece of hardware components of a computer. All other hardware
components like CPU, RAM, hard disk, additional drives, graphics cards, as well as
other cards for specialized uses are connected to the motherboard.
Motherboard
This is the centerpiece of hardware components of a computer. All other hardware
components like CPU, RAM, hard disk, additional drives, graphics cards, as well as
other cards for specialized uses are connected to the motherboard.
Motherboard
This is the centerpiece of hardware components of a computer. All other hardware
components like CPU, RAM, hard disk, additional drives, graphics cards, as well as
other cards for specialized uses are connected to the motherboard.
MOV
MOV is a video and audio format developed by Apple, which has since become
widely used with Windows. QuickTime supports lots of compression technology,
which make it possible to optimize audio and video and even graphics for the Internet
and multimedia/video applications. Conventional (hardware) DVD players are not
able to play this format.
Movie
In MAGIX Video Pro X5, an arrangement of various objects (videos, photos, text,
sound, etc.) is called a movie. A movie file has an "mvm" extension.
MP3
MP3 (actually MPEG-1 layer 3) is currently the most important standard for
compressing audio files.
MPEG
MPEG is short for "Moving Picture Experts Group" and refers to a committee
concerned with the standardization of video and audio data compression as well as
container formats.
MS audio
A process developed by Microsoft for compressing audio files with properties similar
to those of MP3.
MTC
MTC stands for MIDI Time Code and it transmits the exact playback position via
MIDI. In this way, programs and devices can be synchronized with each other.