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Audio Video Production Basics

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1. shift z lets you...
Local
Insert clip
SMPTE
View entire sequence

2. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Lavaliers
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
9 times
Shotgun

3. Headroom is a principle of...
Composition.
30 frames.
Passing over the imaginary axis
Visual weight

4. What is the function of Control you
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Locking mechanism
Apple 8
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

5. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

6. f9 is a shortcut for...
Medium close up
Shotgun
9 times
Insert clip

7. What does option are do?
Insert clip
Shotgun
It renders the footage.
Fcp

8. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Shortcut for saving
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
The arrangement of visual elements
Lavaliers

9. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
When and where the movie is set.
That the cam is off
Audio Interchange File Format
Shotgun

10. Where will you find source/ destination?
No
NOW
Lucinda Grande.
Patch panel

11. Rule of pan...
Command and apple are the same.
Apple 8
Professionals
Start & stop on an end shot

12. Command and what key are the same?
Command and apple are the same.
The arrangement of visual elements
Brings the speed changer up.
Wide shot

13. w is a shortcut for...
Turning on wireframe
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Mounted camera move
Apple l

14. when can you cross the axis
Professionals
Objective
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
View entire sequence

15. Pan and scan is...
9 times
16/9
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Tracking pan

16. tttt means...
All tracks forward
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
9 times
9 times

17. db stands for...
Shotgun
Decibells
90%
SMPTE

18. Title safe percentage is...
80%
Tracking pan
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
More informative - less artistic

19. Overscan is...

20. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
Brings the speed changer up.
50mm
Tracking pan
Nope

21. A freeze frame without handles is how long?
Medium close up
Apple 8
10 sec.
ESC

22. Shortcut for log and capture
Audio Interchange File Format
80%
Apple 8
Cross dissolve

23. Option i does what?
Decibells
30 frames.
Apple l
Removes in-point.

24. Crossing the line means...
Audio Interchange File Format
Mp3
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Passing over the imaginary axis

25. Default transition is...
It renders the footage.
50mm
Cross dissolve
Group shot.

26. Rule of pan...
More informative - less artistic
Start & stop on an end shot
Visual weight
30 frames.

27. What is the shot called if it includes the entire human body?
Long shot
J
Modifying text
10 sec.

28. What shot is used on newscasters?
Animatics
30 frames.
In the browser
Medium close up

29. shift z lets you...
No
Wide shot
Mounted camera move
View entire sequence

30. where are master footage files located?
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
In the browser
Full screen
Turning on wireframe

31. Default transition is...
In the browser
You right click above the patch panel.
Group shot.
Cross dissolve

32. usb transfers by
Tracking pan
Packets
Lavaliers
View entire sequence

33. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Command and apple are the same.
In the browser
That the cam is off
Wide shot

34. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
A cutaway
Local
Group shot.
P

35. Default font?
Lucinda Grande.
Cross dissolve
Local
-6

36. animated story boards are called...
Patch panel
Animatics
Long shot
More informative - less artistic

37. XLR cables are used by
View entire sequence
Group shot.
Professionals
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

38. n is a shortcut for...
Snapping
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Lavaliers
Visual weight

39. where are master footage files located?
Modifying text
In the browser
View entire sequence
NOW

40. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Lavaliers
Shotgun
90%
Insert clip

41. After capturing footage press
Medium close up
More informative - less artistic
No
ESC

42. XLR cables are used by
Group shot.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Lavaliers
Professionals

43. To start capturing footage you depress what button
P
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
NOW
Group shot.

44. Composition is...
Full screen
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
The arrangement of visual elements
Professionals

45. Crossing the line means...
Passing over the imaginary axis
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Fcp
Fcp

46. f10 is a shortcut for...
Overwrite clip
In the browser
Full screen
50mm

47. title safe and action safe were made by...
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Passing over the imaginary axis
Audio Interchange File Format
SMPTE

48. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Turning on wireframe
50mm
Objective
A cutaway

49. What is Apple S?
Group shot.
Shotgun
ESC
Shortcut for saving

50. Do mics record sound in stereo?
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
No
50mm
More informative - less artistic