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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A freeze frame without handles is how long?
10 sec.
Apple l
Projectors
It restores all windows to standard layout view.

2. Overscan does not apply to...
Packets
No
30 frames.
Projectors

3. tilt is a...
That the cam is off
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Mounted camera move
Apple l

4. What is the shot called if it includes the entire human body?
That the cam is off
Long shot
Decibells
Omni

5. title safe and action safe were made by...
Apple l
Decibells
SMPTE
Command and apple are the same.

6. What does fcp not support?
Medium close up
You right click above the patch panel.
Mp3
50mm

7. To start capturing footage you depress what button
When and where the movie is set.
NOW
Lucinda Grande.
Group shot.

8. What shot is used on newscasters?
Medium close up
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Shotgun

9. Option i does what?
Removes in-point.
Group shot.
It renders the footage.
Shortcut for saving

10. Side glances give...
P
Mp3
Start & stop on an end shot
Visual weight

11. Where will you find source/ destination?
Apple 8
Patch panel
No
J

12. when can you cross the axis
No
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Group shot.

13. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
P
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Full screen
Long shot

14. Shortcut for log and capture
Apple 8
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
P
30 frames.

15. Letterboxing is...
80%
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Decibells
16/9

16. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
Long shot
Mp3
Omni
9 times

17. What does fcp not support?
Decibells
Insert clip
Mp3
50mm

18. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Omni
The arrangement of visual elements
Nope
10 sec.

19. Apple j does what?
Overwrite clip
Brings the speed changer up.
Apple 8
Removes in-point.

20. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Fcp
Wide shot
Professionals
J

21. What mics do newscasters typically use?
SMPTE
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Full screen
Lavaliers

22. Pan and scan is...
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
-6
Shortcut for saving
Lavaliers

23. location pics must be
30 frames.
10 sec.
More informative - less artistic
Snapping

24. animated story boards are called...
Cross dissolve
Animatics
Lavaliers
Overwrite clip

25. What is Apple S?
It renders the footage.
Black
Shortcut for saving
Wide shot

26. n is a shortcut for...
That the cam is off
View entire sequence
Animatics
Snapping

27. Default font?
Brings the speed changer up.
Cross dissolve
30 frames.
Lucinda Grande.

28. where are master footage files located?
SMPTE
Insert clip
SMPTE
In the browser

29. After capturing footage press
Omni
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
ESC
Composition.

30. Overscan is...

31. Rule of pan...
Long shot
The arrangement of visual elements
Start & stop on an end shot
It renders the footage.

32. Letterboxing is...
30 frames.
9 times
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Cross dissolve

33. What does option are do?
Command and apple are the same.
It renders the footage.
Nope
Tracking pan

34. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

35. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Removes in-point.
Wide shot
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
16/9

36. mounted cam 'following' is...
More informative - less artistic
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Tracking pan
9 times

37. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Removes in-point.
Command and apple are the same.
-6
That the cam is off

38. tttt means...
All tracks forward
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
View entire sequence
SMPTE

39. control tab is used for...
Modifying text
Tracking pan
ESC
Professionals

40. where are master footage files located?
Local
Shotgun
In the browser
Animatics

41. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Nope
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Objective

42. To start capturing footage you depress what button
Cross dissolve
NOW
Start & stop on an end shot
Shortcut for saving

43. What is Apple S?
Nope
When and where the movie is set.
Shortcut for saving
No

44. ideal lens for location scout?
30 frames.
Local
Removes in-point.
50mm

45. Composition is...
Locking mechanism
Apple l
50mm
The arrangement of visual elements

46. What do you press to play clip backwards?
J
Cross dissolve
View entire sequence
Objective

47. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Full screen
Lavaliers
All tracks forward
Projectors

48. Default transition is how many frames?
30 frames.
9 times
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Long shot

49. Default transition is...
Insert clip
Lucinda Grande.
Cross dissolve
Mounted camera move

50. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Lavaliers
10 sec.
Objective
Wide shot