footage
An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of…An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
» Tom shot this footage.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable, usually)An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something, or the content of the recording.
The footage we shot at the riot yesterday got ruined.
Filmmaterial, Filmmeter, Bandmaterial
отсня́тый материа́лotsnjátyj materiál, фута́жfutáž, метра́жmetráž
відзнятий матеріал, відзняті кадриvidznjati kadry
film that has been shot
(countable, uncountable)A measurement in feet.
Examples
73 sentencesTom shot this footage.
I shot this footage.
I can't post the raw footage.
This camera still contains some footage.
He reviewed the footage frame by frame.
Translations
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Origin
From foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and televFrom foot (unit of length) + -age. Video footage is so called because movie film and television tape was measured in feet. The same term is still applied by analogy to digital videos which are stored on hard drives or microchips.
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Forms
plural: footagesWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable