General MCQ for Adobe After Effects

1. What is the keyboard shorcut for the Zoom tool?

2. What is the shortcut to Precompose?

3. What tool on the icon bar is used to zoom in and out?

4. What is the correct term for additional effects, generally bought from a 3rd party, that are added in to AE?

5. What is the shortcut for copying?

6. What term describes transparency?

7. What happens to a layer when you turn on its 3d layer switch?

8. What is the keyboard shorcut for select all?

9. What do the diamonds on the timeline denote?

10. In AE's default color space , which three colors make up all the color information?

11. To animate any effects or properties I need to use ...

12. What is the shortcut to Duplicate?

13. Which key would you hold to select multiple objects at once?

14. What is the opposite of Blur?

15. Keyframes are used for what?

16. If I wanted to make size changes to the composition I'm already on I would ...

17. Selecting _________ will bring up a dialog to set up the basic working parameters of your blank canvas.

18. What does the Orbit Camera tool do?

19. The quickest way to create a closed mask is to use:

20. What does the 'Bezier Keyframe' do?

21. When rendering out my projects, what 'view' will After Effects render out?

22. What two keys set the first and last frame of your render region?

23. On what programming language is the After Effects expression language based?

24. What is the maximum composition size?

25. What is the keyboard Shortcut for 'Add to Render Queue'?

26. The positions of effect points are based on the coordinate system of the layer and not on the coordinate system of the composition.

27. Which Transform option should be chosen to rotate a layer along a motion path?

28. Which among the following is not a mask mode?

29. At least _________ layers should be selected in order to distribute layers.

30. Which among the following is not a render effect?

31. What would happen, if the feather width is set to 25, using the mask feather property?

32. Which audio effects repeats the sound in audio footage after a specified amount of time?

33. Why is the film strip format used?

34. Which layer property has the preserve frame aspect ratio feature?

35. Open path cannot create transparent area for a layer.

36. What is the maximum composition resolution supported by After Effects?

37. How can the result in Figure B be achieved from the given in Figure A in the diagram?

38. Still Image layer cannot be time stretched.

39. When a color value is keyed out, all pixels that have similar color become transparent. What is this technique called?

40. Trimming a still image layer simply changes the length of time the image displays in the composition, without affecting the displayed portion of the image.

41. What would be the outcome if drop shadow effect is applied in photoshop layer and then files are imported into After Effects?

42. Which effect is used to adjust an image's position in an imaginary 3D space, add depth or create an adjustable z-axis?

43. ____________ are used primarily to create and control animation in After Effects.

44. Which of the following layers will be used for applying an effect to many layers at once?

45. What is the standard sampling rate for compact disc audio?

46. What settings should be made in the path text to shift the text as in Figure A to that as in Figure B, in the given diagram?

47. What render settings should be used if only the part of the composition should be rendered?

48. What is speeding up or slowing down a layer in After Effects called?

49. Which options renders one ninth of the pixels contained in the full resolution image in the composition setting dialog box?

50. What tracks the specified range of bumpy movement and then adjusts the layer anchor point or rotation?

51. Which of the following is not a shape type for Path text?

52. Which of the following command is not true?

53. Which among the following is not the method to create a mask in After Effects?

54. Which channel contains the transparency information?

55. Which among the following is a visual effect and not an audio effect and must be applied to a video layer?

56. A mask cannot be locked.

57. What would be used to add color to a background or create simple graphic images using mask and layer properties?

58. What should be done to refresh a window or to remove red border around the composition window as shown in the given diagram?

59. What quality option should be used if rendering should be done at reduced resolution?

60. Which of the following text types will be used in order to animate the text along the perimeter of the circle?

61. What does the term 'nesting' mean in After Effects?

62. For which file format does After Effects automatically convert empty area in to an alpha channel?

63. Which mask is previewed and rendered faster than any other kind of drawn mask?

64. The lock layer can be moved by alignment or distribution option.

65. What is the maximum number of masks that can be applied to a single layer in an After Effects 7.0 composition?

66. What does select label group mean?

67. Which among the following is not a type of mask and cannot be drawn?

68. Which masking mode is used in the given diagram?

69. Which effect has been applied on Figure B from the given as in Figure A in the diagram?

70. What would happen if the capture speed is set to 50% of motion sketch as in the given diagram?

71. In the given diagram, which part is being denoted by A?

72. Which type of mask is shown in the given image?(Based on Adobe After Effects 7.0)