footage
Substantivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈfʊtɪd͡ʒ//
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
Substantiv
- 1
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
The footage of this scene has been re-used in several later films where a good, convincing train smash was required, notably in "Seven Sinners" (1937).
The weaponry at their disposal was said and shown in numerous video footages to be mainly small arms and anti-tank rocket launchers, etc.—the 'classical' arms of the guerrilla.
“The footages were sick and sickening – portraying adults engaging in sexual acts with each other and performing sexual acts on infants and children, in addition to physically abusing them,” the lawsuit said, adding that Zoom admitted the hacker was a “known serial offender” who had been reported “multiple times to the authorities.”
- 2
A measurement in feet.
[…]more and more contractors are buying Southern pine in greater footages per order.
Starting footages should go above the line at the start of the sound and finishing footages beneath the line at the end of it.
Herkunft
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips. Compare typologically French métrage.
Formen
- Plural
- footages
footage · An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
football · A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball…footing · A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm…footprint · The impression of the foot in a soft substance such as sand…