- chase mode
- A mode of operation in video tape recorders and other transports, in which one or more devices are synchronized to a master device.
- chroma burst
- Provides color information about the active line of video to the color decoder.
- codec
- Compressor/decompressor.
- color key
- A value indicating the color to be used for transparent or translucent effects. When using a hardware blitter, for example, all of the pixels of a rectangular area are blitted except for the value that was set as the color key, thereby creating nonrectangular sprites on a surface.
- composition
- A collection of tracks and (optionally) other compositions. At rendering time, the sources in a composition are composited into a single image.
- compression filter
- A specialized type of transform filter that accepts data, uses a compression scheme to transform the data, and passes the compressed data downstream.