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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Side glances give...
ESC
Visual weight
16/9
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

2. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
10 sec.
Objective
Black
View entire sequence

3. Apple j does what?
NOW
Brings the speed changer up.
No
Tracking pan

4. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Mounted camera move
Start & stop on an end shot
When and where the movie is set.
P

5. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
Wide shot
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Composition.
All tracks forward

6. HDTV standard ratio is...
Brings the speed changer up.
Long shot
16/9
Mounted camera move

7. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Mp3
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
When and where the movie is set.
A cutaway

8. What shot is used on newscasters?
Start & stop on an end shot
90%
You right click above the patch panel.
Medium close up

9. ideal lens for location scout?
50mm
All tracks forward
P
Lavaliers

10. HDTV standard ratio is...
16/9
Patch panel
Locking mechanism
9 times

11. To start capturing footage you depress what button
Lucinda Grande.
NOW
Apple 8
When and where the movie is set.

12. Pan and scan is...
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Apple 8
Composition.
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

13. db stands for...
Snapping
Cross dissolve
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Decibells

14. How do you add a track?
Nope
Tracking pan
You right click above the patch panel.
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv

15. tttt means...
All tracks forward
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Apple 8

16. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
That the cam is off
80%
16/9
Black

17. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
That the cam is off
In the browser
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

18. a location scout must be a...
P
In the browser
P
Local

19. Option i does what?
Removes in-point.
Snapping
Start & stop on an end shot
Lucinda Grande.

20. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Full screen
Nope
A cutaway
Audio Interchange File Format

21. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
It renders the footage.
Full screen
Audio Interchange File Format
A cutaway

22. Default transition is...
Cross dissolve
Overwrite clip
-6
Mounted camera move

23. What is Apple S?
Shortcut for saving
A cutaway
Professionals
Apple 8

24. Command and what key are the same?
It renders the footage.
All tracks forward
Modifying text
Command and apple are the same.

25. mounted cam 'following' is...
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Visual weight
Cross dissolve
Tracking pan

26. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Wide shot
A cutaway
P

27. What mics do newscasters typically use?
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Patch panel
Lavaliers
Fcp

28. tilt is a...
Nope
Mounted camera move
10 sec.
ESC

29. shift z lets you...
Insert clip
View entire sequence
Lucinda Grande.
Locking mechanism

30. What is the function of Control you
Shotgun
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
It renders the footage.
Modifying text

31. What mic captures sounds all around it?
Group shot.
Composition.
Packets
Omni

32. Default transition is how many frames?
16/9
Projectors
30 frames.
80%

33. Letterboxing is...
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
30 frames.
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Lavaliers

34. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Lavaliers
Insert clip
50mm
Black

35. f10 is a shortcut for...
Overwrite clip
More informative - less artistic
SMPTE
Wide shot

36. Shortcut for log and capture
Fcp
Modifying text
Shortcut for saving
Apple 8

37. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
10 sec.
Professionals
Nope
Animatics

38. What does fcp not support?
9 times
SMPTE
Mp3
Packets

39. HAPS stands for...
30 frames.
Cross dissolve
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Lucinda Grande.

40. Overscan does not apply to...
Patch panel
It renders the footage.
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Projectors

41. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Audio Interchange File Format
Wide shot
Objective

42. What mic captures sounds all around it?
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
J
Omni

43. Headroom is a principle of...
Long shot
10 sec.
Composition.
Objective

44. Side glances give...
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Visual weight
P
Lavaliers

45. Rule of pan...
30 frames.
Omni
Start & stop on an end shot
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.

46. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

47. What does option are do?
-6
It renders the footage.
Mounted camera move
Lucinda Grande.

48. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Shotgun
All tracks forward
Composition.

49. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Lavaliers
Turning on wireframe
Fcp
That the cam is off

50. XLR cables are used by
Start & stop on an end shot
All tracks forward
Insert clip
Professionals