Pan and scan

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Class

Invention

Domain

Science and technology

Knowledge cost

3

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What Wikipedia says

Pan and scan is a film editing technique used to modify widescreen images for display on a fullscreen screen. It involves cropping the sides of the original widescreen image and panning across it when the shot's focus changes.

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Image: Andreas -horn- Hornig, Bikram Sikhar Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.