Glossary
Some of these audio terms are relevant to surround sound directly, and other terms are related to the audio and video industry in general. Some of the terms are “new” language adapted from the analog world.
AAF Advanced Authoring Format, a format that allows applications to share raw or rough cuts.
A/D converter Analog-to-digital converter. Many A/Ds are also D/As, which convert digital back to analog for monitoring.
AC-3 Dolby’s audio compression scheme, third generation. Both stereo and 5.1 surround format files may be encoded to AC-3. Many software tools support the encoding of stereo audio and import of 5.1 AC-3 files.
ACM Audio Compression Manager, developed by Microsoft as the standard interface for signal processing of audio data ...
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