English

Alternative forms

• full-motion video

Noun

full motion video ‎(uncountable)

1. Video of sufficient quality to make motion appear continuous to humans, considered to require at least 16 frames per second.
   • 1985, Steven Golen, C Glenn Pearce, Ross Figgins, Report writing for business and industry

     When most companies become involved in teleconferencing, usually their first interest is in full-motion video conferencing.

   • 1989, Coming for Personal Computers: Full-motion Video (in Popular Science volume 235, number 5, November 1989)

     Originally, 72 minutes of partial-screen (one-eighth) full-motion video could be stored. These pictures are fairly coarse — worse than low-quality VCR...

   • 1992, Association for Computing Machinery, Computer Graphics

     To digitize and store a 10 seconds clip of full motion video in a computer requires transfer of an enormous amount of data […]

   • 1992, PC Mag (volume 11, number 22, 22 December 1992, page 346)

     But while the small screen and grainy full-motion video on a CD-ROM […] may wow computerphiles […] , it won't impress the MTV generation.

   • 2008, Mark J P Wolf, The Video Game Explosion

     In reality, multimedia was associated first and foremost with the development of full-motion video. This fascination for a cinema-like illusion of motion...

Usage notes

• Often used in marketing claims about video quality.

Synonyms

• (video games): FMV

Antonyms

• (video games): in-engine

See also

• Persistence of vision on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Full motion video based game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia