refers to an image aspect ratio that completely fills a screen of a conventional analog TVs (the type that we're all used to), without any horizontal black bars at the top and bottom of the screen. Another way to refer to this is an image aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (a picture that is 1.33 times wider than it is high). This is equivalent to a display that is 4 units wide by 3 units high. This term is used interchangeably with " full screen". This is in contrast to a widescreen TV with 16:9 aspect ratio. See 4:3 full frame/aspect ratio. back to the previous page
Show all of the image; mask to image on sides if necessary. Also, "NC": no crop on photo required.
In cabinet construction, amortised-and-tenoned frame, in which every joint is mortised and tenoned.
A photograph that has not been cropped to be printed and shows the entire image.
A full frame print is one in which the whole image is printed, with no significant cropping, on the chosen paper size. Because of differences in the height to width ratio of film formats and paper sizes, this usually results in borders on two sides of the print. See the addendum at the end of this glossary for approximate sizes of some popular film formats on common paper sizes.
The entire image area of a photograph.
A type of print border style — see our Border Definitions page for descriptions and samples of various print border styles available.
This term refers to the way the video image was captured. Different tools for capturing video store the captured video fields differently. A full frame occurs when one image equals two fields alternated inside the image file to produce one full frame.
A film presented with all visual information available but not requiring letterboxing is "full frame." This can either refer to films made prior to the '50s which were filmed in a regular square shape and therefore adapt perfectly to the TV format, or to films which are shot with an extra "safety area" at the top and bottom of the image. The latter kind of "full frame" presentation, also referred to as "open matte," will contain extra but unimportant picture information compared to a letterboxed version of the same title, which is usually a more accurate portrayal of the filmmakers' intentions.