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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Apple j does what?
Long shot
No
Snapping
Brings the speed changer up.

2. What mic captures sounds all around it?
Lavaliers
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Omni
A cutaway

3. tttt means...
View entire sequence
More informative - less artistic
Lucinda Grande.
All tracks forward

4. Composition is...
P
The arrangement of visual elements
J
10 sec.

5. Overscan does not apply to...
Wide shot
Visual weight
Projectors
Composition.

6. Shortcut to link is...
10 sec.
More informative - less artistic
Apple l
Patch panel

7. Do mics record sound in stereo?
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Fcp
No
The arrangement of visual elements

8. when can you cross the axis
Apple 8
Passing over the imaginary axis
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Black

9. Shortcut for log and capture
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Black
Mp3
Apple 8

10. Pan and scan is...
No
More informative - less artistic
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Full screen

11. Crossing the line means...
All tracks forward
Nope
Passing over the imaginary axis
No

12. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Nope
Composition.
Medium close up

13. What does the establishing shot tell you?
All tracks forward
Long shot
Wide shot
When and where the movie is set.

14. usb transfers by
The arrangement of visual elements
Mounted camera move
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Packets

15. Where will you find source/ destination?
More informative - less artistic
Patch panel
In the browser
SMPTE

16. slug means ______ in fcp.
Black
Modifying text
Nope
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

17. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Lavaliers
Local
Animatics
Mp3

18. Overscan is...

19. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Objective
Composition.
Audio Interchange File Format
Brings the speed changer up.

20. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Professionals
Lavaliers
P

21. Headroom is a principle of...
Nope
Command and apple are the same.
Modifying text
Composition.

22. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Command and apple are the same.
Cross dissolve
Omni
Shotgun

23. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Insert clip
J
Lavaliers
Fcp

24. What is the function of Control you
Group shot.
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Locking mechanism

25. Crossing the line means...
Passing over the imaginary axis
When and where the movie is set.
It renders the footage.
Apple 8

26. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
ESC
Brings the speed changer up.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv

27. Action safe percentage is...
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
A cutaway
Cross dissolve
90%

28. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
9 times
Composition.
16/9
It restores all windows to standard layout view.

29. What comes after 4-shot?
Apple 8
Snapping
Group shot.
SMPTE

30. Title safe percentage is...
16/9
80%
Local
Removes in-point.

31. Default transition is...
Cross dissolve
90%
Visual weight
Mp3

32. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Patch panel
A cutaway
Lavaliers
Omni

33. location pics must be
Lucinda Grande.
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Patch panel
More informative - less artistic

34. Overscan does not apply to...
Projectors
The arrangement of visual elements
Mp3
Shortcut for saving

35. Option i does what?
Lucinda Grande.
Long shot
Removes in-point.
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

36. usb transfers by
Apple 8
Packets
10 sec.
Mounted camera move

37. After capturing footage press
That the cam is off
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Insert clip
ESC

38. slug means ______ in fcp.
Group shot.
Long shot
Composition.
Black

39. Default transition is how many frames?
30 frames.
Wide shot
The arrangement of visual elements
Projectors

40. XLR cables are used by
Professionals
It renders the footage.
16/9
View entire sequence

41. shift z lets you...
View entire sequence
Composition.
Modifying text
P

42. HDTV standard ratio is...
Brings the speed changer up.
16/9
Lucinda Grande.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

43. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
A cutaway
You right click above the patch panel.
Apple l
Lucinda Grande.

44. What shot is used on newscasters?
Medium close up
It renders the footage.
Tracking pan
Animatics

45. w is a shortcut for...
Modifying text
Turning on wireframe
All tracks forward
Projectors

46. How do you add a track?
Apple 8
J
You right click above the patch panel.
Composition.

47. Apple j does what?
Brings the speed changer up.
Medium close up
90%
Tracking pan

48. shift z lets you...
Visual weight
View entire sequence
Insert clip
ESC

49. mounted cam 'following' is...
SMPTE
A cutaway
Tracking pan
That the cam is off

50. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Nope
All tracks forward
That the cam is off
80%