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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. HDTV standard ratio is...
16/9
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Apple l
Passing over the imaginary axis

2. What shot is used on newscasters?
80%
Shortcut for saving
Lucinda Grande.
Medium close up

3. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
10 sec.
Objective
Local
Nope

4. Pan and scan is...
Tracking pan
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
ESC
Modifying text

5. usb transfers by
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Packets
Insert clip
A cutaway

6. Overscan does not apply to...
View entire sequence
Visual weight
No
Projectors

7. Apple j does what?
Projectors
Mounted camera move
Brings the speed changer up.
Passing over the imaginary axis

8. w is a shortcut for...
10 sec.
Locking mechanism
Turning on wireframe
More informative - less artistic

9. Title safe percentage is...
80%
Apple 8
Animatics
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

10. location pics must be
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
More informative - less artistic
Snapping
Decibells

11. animated story boards are called...
Audio Interchange File Format
Apple l
Animatics
Omni

12. Do mics record sound in stereo?
Tracking pan
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
It renders the footage.
No

13. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
Removes in-point.
The arrangement of visual elements
9 times
Shotgun

14. Rule of pan...
Lucinda Grande.
Start & stop on an end shot
ESC
Locking mechanism

15. Letterboxing is...
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Black
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
10 sec.

16. What does fcp not support?
Modifying text
10 sec.
Start & stop on an end shot
Mp3

17. Default transition is how many frames?
Command and apple are the same.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
30 frames.
Lucinda Grande.

18. shift z lets you...
Black
Decibells
View entire sequence
A cutaway

19. Crossing the line means...
Command and apple are the same.
Command and apple are the same.
Visual weight
Passing over the imaginary axis

20. Overscan does not apply to...
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Long shot
Projectors
Tracking pan

21. What is the function of Control you
Objective
All tracks forward
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Local

22. Default transition is...
J
Objective
Cross dissolve
Medium close up

23. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
Snapping
Passing over the imaginary axis
80%
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

24. Option i does what?
Start & stop on an end shot
It renders the footage.
More informative - less artistic
Removes in-point.

25. w is a shortcut for...
ESC
Turning on wireframe
-6
Removes in-point.

26. Shortcut to link is...
It renders the footage.
Animatics
Group shot.
Apple l

27. where are master footage files located?
Lavaliers
16/9
In the browser
Lavaliers

28. n is a shortcut for...
Wide shot
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Snapping
Nope

29. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

30. Default font?
Medium close up
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
View entire sequence
Lucinda Grande.

31. a location scout must be a...
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Mp3
J
Local

32. db stands for...
Decibells
P
80%
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

33. What is the function of Control you
Overwrite clip
30 frames.
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
The arrangement of visual elements

34. db stands for...
Decibells
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
You right click above the patch panel.
Full screen

35. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
NOW
Nope
Long shot
More informative - less artistic

36. What shot is used on newscasters?
Local
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Medium close up
Black

37. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
P
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Shortcut for saving
ESC

38. Rule of pan...
Cross dissolve
More informative - less artistic
Start & stop on an end shot
Passing over the imaginary axis

39. Pan and scan is...
Black
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
The arrangement of visual elements
Full screen

40. Shortcut for log and capture
Apple l
Cross dissolve
Packets
Apple 8

41. tttt means...
Decibells
Start & stop on an end shot
Long shot
All tracks forward

42. Action safe percentage is...
The arrangement of visual elements
J
90%
Full screen

43. What comes after 4-shot?
90%
Group shot.
Packets
Lavaliers

44. n is a shortcut for...
Modifying text
Snapping
80%
NOW

45. when can you cross the axis
NOW
Shotgun
J
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

46. animated story boards are called...
Audio Interchange File Format
Animatics
All tracks forward
90%

47. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Insert clip
Fcp
P

48. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Professionals
In the browser
Lavaliers
When and where the movie is set.

49. shift z lets you...
Nope
Lavaliers
View entire sequence
80%

50. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
No
Omni
Wide shot
Snapping