Definitions for "Split Screen"
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Horizontally or vertically separated video pictures shown simultaneously.
Capability of a CRT screen to be divided into two or more independent workspaces.
The word processing feature which permits the simultaneous display of (parts of) two or more documents.
Some plasma displays have an in-built split screen function that allows the interconnection of several plasma displays to one large plasma screen. Each plasma display shows one part of the total image.
Matte shot that is divided down the center creating two (or more) images at the same time.
The display and transmission of two separate camera sources at the same time across a horizontal split.
The division of the projected film frame into two or more sections, each containing a separate image.
A software activated division of the computer monitor in which different documents can be displayed. Each document can be manipulated individually. Also called a split window.
A screen with different scenes taking place in two or more sections; the scenes are usually interactive, as in the depiction of two sides of a phone conversation.
A video effect in which two scenes are on the screen at the same time, but are separated by a wipe pattern. This is most common in instructional television when the instructor is placed in a small box in the lower right hand corner when writing on the pad camera.
In film, split screen is the visible division of the screen, traditionally in half, but also in several simultaneous images, rupturing the illusion that the screen's frame is a seamless view of reality, similar to that of the human eye. Until the arrival of digital technology in the early 1990s, this was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto the same negative, called "the composite."
The computer graphics technique called split screen display consists of dividing graphics and/or text into non-movable adjacent parts, typically two or four rectangular areas, in order to allow the simultaneous presentation of (usually) related graphical and textual information on a computer display. Split screen differs from windowing systems in that the latter allows overlapping and freely movable parts of the screen (the "windows") to present related as well as unrelated application data to the user, while the former more strictly conforms to the description given in the above paragraph.