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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
ESC
Apple l
9 times
Shotgun

2. control tab is used for...
90%
Modifying text
Medium close up
Command and apple are the same.

3. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Patch panel
P
Omni

4. w is a shortcut for...
Turning on wireframe
A cutaway
Wide shot
50mm

5. What type of mics to reality shows use?
90%
It renders the footage.
Cross dissolve
Lavaliers

6. What is Apple S?
Shortcut for saving
Audio Interchange File Format
Cross dissolve
Packets

7. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Turning on wireframe
A cutaway
Medium close up

8. control tab is used for...
Modifying text
Apple 8
Professionals
You right click above the patch panel.

9. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Command and apple are the same.
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Composition.
A cutaway

10. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
Locking mechanism
Full screen
-6
Mounted camera move

11. What comes after 4-shot?
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Group shot.
Shotgun
Overwrite clip

12. ideal lens for location scout?
Lavaliers
50mm
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

13. Apple j does what?
Lucinda Grande.
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
More informative - less artistic
Brings the speed changer up.

14. when can you cross the axis
Group shot.
Shotgun
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Humans - accessibility - power - sound

15. slug means ______ in fcp.
Objective
Black
Wide shot
SMPTE

16. slug means ______ in fcp.
Fcp
Omni
Black
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.

17. What comes after 4-shot?
Full screen
SMPTE
Decibells
Group shot.

18. What do you press to play clip backwards?
Passing over the imaginary axis
P
Local
J

19. How do you add a track?
Shotgun
Shotgun
Visual weight
You right click above the patch panel.

20. the max volume you should start with on a project is...
Mp3
-6
Packets
Packets

21. Command and what key are the same?
Insert clip
Shotgun
Command and apple are the same.
Shortcut for saving

22. Shortcut for log and capture
Local
90%
Apple 8
Fcp

23. Rule of pan...
Cross dissolve
Start & stop on an end shot
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
Mp3

24. What mic captures sounds all around it?
Omni
Professionals
Fcp
Shotgun

25. What is the function of Control you
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Turning on wireframe
Lavaliers
Packets

26. location pics must be
Overwrite clip
Animatics
Start & stop on an end shot
More informative - less artistic

27. n is a shortcut for...
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Wide shot
Visual weight
Snapping

28. What is the shot called if it includes the entire human body?
J
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
You right click above the patch panel.
Long shot

29. Pan and scan is...
9 times
Animatics
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
In the browser

30. tttt means...
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
All tracks forward
Decibells
Command and apple are the same.

31. w is a shortcut for...
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Turning on wireframe
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

32. location pics must be
Modifying text
More informative - less artistic
Wide shot
Black

33. shift z lets you...
Audio Interchange File Format
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
No
View entire sequence

34. AIFF stands for...
Audio Interchange File Format
50mm
9 times
Locking mechanism

35. What does option are do?
Apple l
Local
You right click above the patch panel.
It renders the footage.

36. Apple j does what?
Packets
Brings the speed changer up.
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
Its displayed width/it's displayed height

37. Do mics record sound in stereo?
Overwrite clip
Cross dissolve
Fcp
No

38. tilt is a...
Apple l
10 sec.
Overwrite clip
Mounted camera move

39. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
Projectors
Omni
P
Turning on wireframe

40. Side glances give...
You right click above the patch panel.
Visual weight
30 frames.
Removes in-point.

41. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
Fcp
Snapping
Nope
Apple 8

42. Action safe percentage is...
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Modifying text
Mp3
90%

43. shift z lets you...
Packets
View entire sequence
Apple 8
Projectors

44. n is a shortcut for...
Lavaliers
Snapping
16/9
Objective

45. tilt is a...
The arrangement of visual elements
More informative - less artistic
Lavaliers
Mounted camera move

46. where are master footage files located?
Shotgun
Lucinda Grande.
In the browser
Overwrite clip

47. f9 is a shortcut for...
Insert clip
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.
It renders the footage.

48. HAPS stands for...
ESC
Full screen
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Visual weight

49. What does the establishing shot tell you?
Apple 8
When and where the movie is set.
Insert clip
Command and apple are the same.

50. usb transfers by
Group shot.
Decibells
Packets
A cutaway