TubeTalk Pronunciation

How to pronounce “pan and scan”

Hear “pan and scan” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.

Pronunciation guide for pan and scan

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of pan and scan with real speech in context.
Available examples: 0 YouTube examples
Definition summary: (film) Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35:1 aspect ratio) cropped off.

No TubeTalk examples are available for "pan and scan" yet. Try a related pronunciation target or check back as the index grows.

[Adjective]
(film) Formatted to fit within proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, with sides of the original widescreen image (especially 2.35:1 aspect ratio) cropped off.
[Noun]
(uncountable, film) The method or practice of adjusting widescreen film images, especially 2.35:1 or 2.39:1 aspect ratio, so that they can be shown within the proportions of a 1.33:1 or 1.78:1 aspect ratio television screen, by cropping off sides of the original widescreen image, as opposed to letterboxing.
(film) A movie recording employing this technology.
[Verb]
(film, transitive) To adjust widescreen film images so that they can be shown with standard television aspect ratios by cropping the original image, i.e. using pan and scan methods.
(film, transitive) To crop out (a character or object) when performing the pan and scan process, resulting in the deletion of a character or object.

pan-and-scan, letterbox, pillarboxed, scanned, scanned-in, open matte, sepopt, developed, sepmag, closed matte, filmset, flatscreen, sprocketed, multipart, screensavery, midroll, shrink-wrapped, fanfold, black-and-white, n-up, printer-friendly, full-page, tabloid, sheetfed, paginal, pen-and-paper, videographed, prematted, photomechanical, stereotyped, 2-up, billboarded, macrostock, copygraphed, broadsheet, pop-up, documentary, paper, handscreened, ashcan, stencilled, transparent, printbound, wallpapered, lithographed, hors-texte, paper-based, superroyal, tabloidy, serial, ruled, laydown, magnetographic, tabulated, paparazzied, litho, pay-and-display, die-cut, legal-size, softcover, paint-by-numbers, paperbacked, laminar, legal, papern, underprint, graphic, paperback, college-ruled, laminated, antiphotocopying, type-setting, laid, pictured, flat pack, self-covered, pasteboardy, review, balance, balancing, critic, echo, knock, plate, scour, scoured, scouring, skimmer, turned, glass, radar, raster, scanner, scanning, surf, swipe, thumb, thumbing, account

banana skin, soundscan, sandstone, samedan, simonton, sonnenschein, sonnets, sominex, psalmody