Glossary

Compositing

Compositing is the process or technique of combining visual elements from separate sources into single images.

Conforming

Conforming describes the process of matching up the footage from a shoot with the required edit decisions to create a meaningful timeline.

Hiero

A Digital Content Creation tool focused on multi-shot management, conform, editorial and review.

Nuke

A Digital Content Creation tool focused on compositing.

Nuke Studio

A Digital Content Creation tool regrouping features from Nuke and Hiero

PySide

PySide is the Python Qt bindings project providing access to the complete Qt 4.8 framework.

PySide2

PySide2 is the Python Qt bindings project providing access to the complete Qt 5.12+ framework.

Qt

A Cross-platform application framework that is used for developing application software and graphical user interfaces.

Qt Signal

Signals are emitted by an object in Qt when its internal state has changed in some way that might be interesting to the object’s client or owner. Signals are public access functions and can be emitted from anywhere.

Virtualenv

A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Toml

File format for minimal configuration files.