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  • O/S

    O/S means "over the shoulder".

  • OB

    Outside Broadcast.

  • Offline

    Editing using a low quality and therefore inexpensive system.

  • Online

    Editing on an online system produces pictures with a high enough quality for transmission.

  • OOV

    OOV means "out of vision".

  • Open talkback

    Often talkback is "open", particularly for the director and production assistant in the production gallery.

  • Optical Image Stabiliser (OIS)

    A system of stabilizing a camera image by constantly adjusting the optics.

  • Optical Zoom

    A method of zooming which uses a telephoto lens, i.e. the zoom is provided by the optics rather than digital processing. Optical zoom is better than digital zoom

  • Optics

    Dealing with properties of light. Camera optics: The components which deal with light rays, before they are converted into electrical signals (i.e. the lens, etc).

  • Oscilloscope

    Device which accepts an electrical input, and represents the variations of the input as a display on a CRT screen.

  • Out-point

    The end point of an edit.