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Codecs, containers & image formats · Working

Progressive scan

Also called: progressive

ELI5

Video in which each frame contains a complete image instead of alternating fields.

Used in conversation

“Can editorial try the progressive scan before tomorrow’s review?”

Definition

Video in which each frame contains a complete image rather than alternating fields.

Here “Progressive scan” means: Video in which each frame contains a complete image rather than alternating fields.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Progressive scan” in editing, colour, post & delivery conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how recorded material becomes a finished, approved and technically deliverable work.

Connected terms

  • Interlaced videoComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.