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Video field
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Field (video).
In video editing, the term "dominant field" refers to the process of interlaced video, which is common in older video formats. Interlaced video splits each frame into two fields: the odd fields and the even fields. Selecting edit points on the wrong field can result in a "flash" at each edit point, and playing the video fields in reverse order creates a flickering image.