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Audio Video Production Basics

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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What program should you close before connecting cam with firewire?
9 times
NOW
Fcp
Part of the footage you can't see on screen.

2. Action safe percentage is...
90%
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
Composition.
Packets

3. What comes after 4-shot?
All tracks forward
Composition.
Group shot.
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

4. What is the function of Control you
Wide shot
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
ESC
4 pin to 6 pin firewire

5. Where will you find source/ destination?
Patch panel
Brings the speed changer up.
The arrangement of visual elements
NOW

6. Action safe percentage is...
9 times
90%
Removes in-point.
In the browser

7. Rule of pan...
Start & stop on an end shot
Long shot
Medium close up
Decibells

8. What mic is used to get dialogue on movie sets?
Lavaliers
Its displayed width/it's displayed height
Shotgun
More informative - less artistic

9. title safe and action safe were made by...
Packets
SMPTE
Modifying text
Omni

10. Default transition is how many frames?
30 frames.
Full screen
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Passing over the imaginary axis

11. when can you cross the axis
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Brings the speed changer up.
Passing over the imaginary axis
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis

12. animated story boards are called...
Omni
When and where the movie is set.
Animatics
Apple 8

13. slug means ______ in fcp.
Black
Tracking pan
90%
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

14. Default font?
Command and apple are the same.
Lucinda Grande.
Shotgun
Patch panel

15. XLR cables are used by
No
Local
Professionals
All tracks forward

16. Shortcut to link is...
Medium close up
Apple l
Overwrite clip
All tracks forward

17. Letterboxing is...
Shotgun
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
Overwrite clip
Black

18. What is the shot called if it includes the entire human body?
Long shot
ESC
Mp3
When and where the movie is set.

19. slug means ______ in fcp.
30 frames.
Animatics
Omni
Black

20. What is 'pan and scan' on a 4/3 ration tv?
Animatics
Full screen
Turning on wireframe
Visual weight

21. Default font?
Modifying text
Lucinda Grande.
Apple 8
Lavaliers

22. AIFF stands for...
Overwrite clip
Audio Interchange File Format
P
Apple 8

23. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
9 times
Decibells
30 frames.
Apple 8

24. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Shortcut for saving
Long shot
Objective
Shotgun

25. The cable you use to ingest footage is...
No
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Group shot.
Command and apple are the same.

26. Default transition is how many frames?
When movies are showed in widescreen on a 4/3 tv
30 frames.
The arrangement of visual elements
Local

27. w is a shortcut for...
The arrangement of visual elements
Lucinda Grande.
Turning on wireframe
A cutaway

28. HAPS stands for...
A cutaway
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
No
Shotgun

29. how many times can you record on a tape before degration
All tracks forward
The arrangement of visual elements
Mounted camera move
9 times

30. n is a shortcut for...
Modifying text
Snapping
Start & stop on an end shot
Insert clip

31. What does fcp not support?
Mp3
Omni
80%
Fcp

32. where are master footage files located?
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
In the browser
80%
Full screen

33. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Mp3
Lavaliers
Locking mechanism
The arrangement of visual elements

34. Apple j does what?
4 pin to 6 pin firewire
Brings the speed changer up.
Start & stop on an end shot
Composition.

35. When the cam is further from the axis the viewer becomes more emotionally
Objective
Omni
Group shot.
Insert clip

36. What mics do newscasters typically use?
Apple l
Local
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Lavaliers

37. a shortcut for the pen tool is...
P
View entire sequence
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Command and apple are the same.

38. What is the aspect ratio of an image?

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39. f10 is a shortcut for...
Shotgun
Overwrite clip
Projectors
Brings the speed changer up.

40. db stands for...
-6
Decibells
Group shot.
Cross dissolve

41. When you film something other than the main characters - What is it?
Mp3
J
A cutaway
Snapping

42. location pics must be
Decibells
Cross dissolve
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
More informative - less artistic

43. where are master footage files located?
Packets
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
In the browser
Composition.

44. establishing shot is what kind of shot?
Snapping
It restores all windows to standard layout view.
Wide shot
Projectors

45. XLR cables are used by
Professionals
Visual weight
Humans - accessibility - power - sound
Removes in-point.

46. Composition is...
Overwrite clip
The arrangement of visual elements
When you show the footage of you crossing the axis
All tracks forward

47. Option i does what?
Decibells
Locking mechanism
90%
Removes in-point.

48. Do all mics change electric energy into sound energy?
16/9
Nope
90%
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv

49. Pan and scan is...
When movies are shown full screen on a 4/3 tv
The arrangement of visual elements
View entire sequence
Start & stop on an end shot

50. Side glances give...
90%
Local
The arrangement of visual elements
Visual weight