I want to know what some basic common terms are including: aperture, shutter speed, neutral density, exposure, clearscan, AE shift, zebras, etc, etc....

Anyone know some good websites that have some useful information on these terms and such?

Here? heheh Just kidding. We in the news biz like b-roll.net.

David, you really need to learn to use the search function. All of the topics you're interested in already have threads running with a great deal of information available. Even this topics (What are some good sites/places to learn more about photo/video?) has been covered recently.

Check out some of these links:

www.dvfreak.com/links.htm