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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. AIFF stands for...
In the browser
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
30 frames.
Audio Interchange File Format

2. where are master footage files located?
Nope
In the browser
50mm
The arrangement of visual elements

3. usb transfers by
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Omni
Packets
Long shot

4. XLR cables have a...
A cutaway
80%
Locking mechanism
Snapping

5. What do you press to play clip backwards?
Shotgun
J
It renders the footage.
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

6. Default transition is how many frames?
30 frames.
Lucinda Grande.
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
More informative - less artistic

7. f10 is a shortcut for...
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Overwrite clip
J
Passing over the imaginary axis

8. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Lucinda Grande.
Omni

9. Where will you find source/ destination?
That the cam is off
Patch panel
Packets
Animatics

10. control tab is used for...
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Passing over the imaginary axis
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Modifying text

11. Title safe percentage is...
Projectors
More informative - less artistic
80%
Objective

12. Make sure of what before plugging in your fire wire
Patch panel
Animatics
Insert clip
That the cam is off

13. tttt means...
Lucinda Grande.
All tracks forward
Audio Interchange File Format
P

14. HDTV standard ratio is...
All tracks forward
Overwrite clip
View entire sequence
16/9

15. animated story boards are called...
Objective
Patch panel
16/9
Animatics

16. Letterboxing is...
A cutaway
Locking mechanism
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Nope

17. What shot is used on newscasters?
Mp3
When and where the movie is set.
Medium close up
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.

18. What shot is used on newscasters?
80%
Medium close up
80%
Packets

19. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

20. Side glances give...
Animatics
Visual weight
Group shot.
Tracking pan

21. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
Brings the speed changer up.
Tracking pan
-6
You right click above the patch panel.

22. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Decibells
Objective
Removes in-point.
Projectors

23. shift z lets you...
16/9
View entire sequence
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Shotgun

24. Option i does what?
Removes in-point.
Local
J
Start & stop on an end shot

25. Where will you find source/ destination?
Patch panel
Tracking pan
More informative - less artistic
Wide shot

26. Overscan is...

27. To start capturing footage you depress what button
Full screen
NOW
Long shot
Wide shot

28. What does fcp not support?
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
That the cam is off
Black
Mp3

29. f10 is a shortcut for...
Overwrite clip
It renders the footage.
SMPTE
Mounted camera move

30. slug means ______ in fcp.
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Nope
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Black

31. XLR cables are used by
Packets
Decibells
Apple l
Professionals

32. f9 is a shortcut for...
It renders the footage.
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Animatics
Insert clip

33. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
A cutaway
Objective
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
NOW

34. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
Full screen
Lucinda Grande.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
A cutaway

35. when can you cross the axis
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Cross dissolve
Apple l
-6

36. After capturing footage press
ESC
90%
Lavaliers
In the browser

37. f9 is a shortcut for...
Removes in-point.
Objective
Insert clip
ESC

38. Headroom is a principle of...
30 frames.
Decibells
Insert clip
Composition.

39. What mics do newscasters typically use?
When and where the movie is set.
Command and apple are the same.
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Lavaliers

40. What is the function of Control you
Visual weight
SMPTE
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Professionals

41. What do you press to play clip backwards?
Modifying text
J
No
Composition.

42. mounted cam 'following' is...
Removes in-point.
Start & stop on an end shot
Tracking pan
10 sec.

43. mounted cam 'following' is...
Projectors
Tracking pan
Long shot
10 sec.

44. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
ESC
9 times
Objective
Composition.

45. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Tracking pan
Removes in-point.
Full screen

46. Pan and scan is...
Full screen
ESC
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
-6

47. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Lavaliers
Overwrite clip
Turning on wireframe
30 frames.

48. What type of mics to reality shows use?
Lavaliers
Long shot
Snapping
Passing over the imaginary axis

49. Command and what key are the same?
Command and apple are the same.
Snapping
SMPTE
Local

50. After capturing footage press
ESC
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Brings the speed changer up.
90%