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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. f10 is a shortcut for...
Insert clip
Overwrite clip
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
16/9

2. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Command and apple are the same.
Nope
Medium close up
90%

3. What shot is used on newscasters?
Black
Apple 8
Medium close up
P

4. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
Audio Interchange File Format
The arrangement of visual elements
9 times
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

5. w is a shortcut for...
Modifying text
Composition.
Turning on wireframe
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

6. HAPS stands for...
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Packets
30 frames.
Decibells

7. when can you cross the axis
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Patch panel
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
It renders the footage.

8. HDTV standard ratio is...
Patch panel
16/9
Brings the speed changer up.
Medium close up

9. tttt means...
All tracks forward
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Apple l
Start & stop on an end shot

10. animated story boards are called...
Animatics
Visual weight
Snapping
Modifying text

11. What do you press to play clip backwards?
Full screen
The arrangement of visual elements
J
Fcp

12. Default font?
Full screen
Lucinda Grande.
The arrangement of visual elements
Animatics

13. Command and what key are the same?
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
10 sec.
Removes in-point.
Command and apple are the same.

14. Apple j does what?
Brings the speed changer up.
Cross dissolve
Snapping
10 sec.

15. where are master footage files located?
ESC
30 frames.
In the browser
Projectors

16. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Wide shot
The arrangement of visual elements
Visual weight
Long shot

17. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

18. Where will you find source/ destination?
Apple 8
Overwrite clip
P
Patch panel

19. To start capturing footage you depress what button
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
NOW
Objective
You right click above the patch panel.

20. f10 is a shortcut for...
80%
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Overwrite clip
All tracks forward

21. db stands for...
Decibells
Wide shot
Wide shot
Local

22. mounted cam 'following' is...
Tracking pan
J
Wide shot
Group shot.

23. HAPS stands for...
More informative - less artistic
Brings the speed changer up.
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Turning on wireframe

24. n is a shortcut for...
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Lavaliers
Snapping
Modifying text

25. What does option are do?
All tracks forward
It renders the footage.
Shortcut for saving
No

26. Default transition is...
Cross dissolve
Mp3
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
The arrangement of visual elements

27. ideal lens for location scout?
Overwrite clip
All tracks forward
Wide shot
50mm

28. How do you add a track?
You right click above the patch panel.
Insert clip
A cutaway
Cross dissolve

29. Option i does what?
90%
Removes in-point.
Tracking pan
SMPTE

30. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Shotgun
Turning on wireframe
The arrangement of visual elements
That the cam is off

31. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
P
Medium close up
Turning on wireframe
More informative - less artistic

32. control tab is used for...
Start & stop on an end shot
Modifying text
Lavaliers
Decibells

33. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

34. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
Patch panel
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Professionals
Local

35. location pics must be
More informative - less artistic
Shotgun
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
It restores all windows to standard layout view.

36. Overscan does not apply to...
Projectors
Omni
Fcp
That the cam is off

37. Rule of pan...
Start & stop on an end shot
Apple l
ESC
Decibells

38. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Black
Professionals
Objective
Mp3

39. tilt is a...
Locking mechanism
Mounted camera move
Passing over the imaginary axis
Removes in-point.

40. Headroom is a principle of...
Composition.
Turning on wireframe
Snapping
Command and apple are the same.

41. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Passing over the imaginary axis
Lavaliers
Apple l
50mm

42. Shortcut to link is...
Mounted camera move
Full screen
Mounted camera move
Apple l

43. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Medium close up
Shotgun
That the cam is off

44. XLR cables have a...
50mm
Locking mechanism
It renders the footage.
Modifying text

45. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Medium close up
Lavaliers
You right click above the patch panel.
ESC

46. usb transfers by
All tracks forward
Packets
Tracking pan
View entire sequence

47. AIFF stands for...
Audio Interchange File Format
80%
Fcp
ESC

48. Do mics record sound in stereo?
16/9
Objective
J
No

49. HDTV standard ratio is...
Patch panel
16/9
Apple l
J

50. Title safe percentage is...
Wide shot
Removes in-point.
80%
Local