film out

verb

To transfer images or animation from videotape or digital files to a traditional celluloid film print.

“Oil from the spill filmed out over the ocean.”

Meanings

verbfilm out (third-person singular simple present films out, present participle filming out, simple past and past participle filmed out)

present singular third person films out · participle present filming out · participle past filmed out · past filmed out

  1. To transfer images or animation from videotape or digital files to a traditional celluloid film print.
  2. To form a film on the surface of something.

    Oil from the spill filmed out over the ocean.

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