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Excerpt vs Footage - What's the difference?

excerpt | footage |

As nouns the difference between excerpt and footage

is that excerpt is a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media while footage is (uncountable) an amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.

As a verb excerpt

is to select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

excerpt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, a literary composition or other media

    • Verb

  • To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
  • * Fuller
    • out of which we have excerpted the following particulars

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    footage

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) An amount of film or tape that has been used to record something.
  • :* The footage we shot of the riot yesterday got ruined.
  • A measurement in feet.

    • Derived terms

    * found footage