Term: Duration
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Term: Duration
- Definition:
The length of time (in hours, minutes, seconds and frames) a video lasts when played back from start to finish.
Also referred to as length, run time or total running time. Unless otherwise noted, duration is the full run time of the video file but can also be at a component level such as track or other smaller segments of the file. Two common types of duration which may exist in same file: 1) file duration which include headers with color bars, slates which run before program content etc.; and 2) program content only from the first frame to final frame of the fade out/ring out.
May be expressed in a variety of configurations including the ISO 8601 format of hh:mm:ss, which represents hours, minutes, and seconds.
Also may use the following formats to accommodate frames: hh:mm:ss;ff (drop frame timecode) or hh:mm:ss:ff (non-drop frame timecode).
Sometimes expressed as whole numbers (for example, 30,500 milliseconds) or as a decimal number (for example, 30.5 minutes).
- Category:
- Audio and Moving Image
- Resource:
- Wikipedia ISO 8601
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 - ISO 8601 Standard
https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-format.html - See also: