Video Editing Quiz # 1

VFX Stand for ?

Video FilmX

Video fight X-Ray

Visual Effects

What is the frame rate for PAL?

30

24

29.97

25

The special effects technique of making a specific hue or color within a clip transparent, revealing another video layer below, is known as:

Rotoscope

Rear Projection

Multiple Exposure

Chroma Key

What is the standard frame rate for NTSC television?

24 frames per second

59.94 frames per second

25 frames per second

29.97 frames per second

What is the name of the property to increase or decrease the footage size ?

Positon

Scale

Anchor Point

Opacity

What are the shortcut keys for Undo ?

Ctrl + U

Ctrl + Z

If 3 pieces of footage are stacked on top of each other in the timeline, which one will be seen on the monitor?

The Middle One

The Bottom One

The Top One

Which of these editing tips is both real and important?

Make sure music levels are brought down properly so your audience can hear voice-overs and interview audio.

When you're done editing, don't render any effects because they'll look best that way.

When adding audio tracks, don't worry about checking your levels because the software will do it all for you.

Adding several blank audio tracks at the end of the editing process to be sure you have space for your timeline to breathe.

Add one frame of black with no audio in the middle of your project to help your hard disk drives run faster.

If a clip in your sequence has "gone offline," how might you correct it?

There is no way to reconnecting them without deleting the clip and reimporting

Point the program at the source media using Relink or Reconnect

Rename the clip to match the source media and the software will automatically connect them

What is an L-cut?

A loose transition.

An edit where the audio of the next shot begins before we can actually see the next shot.

What is an In Point?

None of these

A marker indicating where an edit will begin

The first frame of a sequence

A marker indicating where an edit will end

The dimensions in pixels of a 16:9 1080p High Definition frame are...

1440 x 1080 pixels

1080 x 720 pixels

640 x 480 pixels

1920 x 1080 pixels

Which of the following digital container formats is an exclusive audio container?

AVI

WMV

3GP

MP4

WAV

What is a video mixdown?

Make all video tracks visible

Merge all video tracks into one track

Move the top video track down one track

Remove unused video tracks

Disable all video tracks apart from the top track

When the sequence playhead moves across multiple tracks of overlaping audio, what is played?

All tracks of audio are played simultaneously

Sequences cannot accomodate multiple video tracks

The top-most audio track only

None of these

What might have happened if a clip in your sequence has "gone offline?"

There is a connection error with the media server

The source media may have been moved

Any of these

The source media may have been deleted

This best describes what happens when you drag a new media item from the finder or explorer into the program

A clip is created in a bin that references the raw media file, which is moved into a special folder elsewhere on the server

The entire raw media file is deleted from its original location and moved into the program

A clip is created in a bin that references the raw media file, which remains in its original location

What is the shortest transition in editing?

None of the above

Fade in

Cut

Cross-dissolve

Fade out

What is an alpha channel?

The audio track containing principle dialogue

A mask layer for graphics indicating which portions are transparent

A channel containing sync information for linked video and audio tracks

A visual effect dividing the frame into two or more images is known as

Flash Frame

Split Screen

Picture in Picture

The vertical green, yellow, and red meters with -dB markings measure

Timecode

Frame rates

Audio levels

Video levels

What happens when you delete a clip from a bin?

The clip remains in the project but the source media is deleted from the server

The clip is removed from the project and the source media is deleted from the server

The clip is removed from the project but the source media remains on the server

The visual representation of an audio file is called

Wave Rate

Wavelength

None of these

Waveform

What is an Out Point?

None of these

The last frame of a sequence

A marker indicating where an edit will begin

A maker indicating where an edit will end

In HD resolution, ________ is to 720 as 1920 is to 1080.

1440

540

1280

960

Which of these codecs are optimized for playback across the internet?

Apple ProRes

H.264

Avid DNXHD

MPEG-2

What is Title Safe?

None of these

An option preventing supers and graphics from moving within the timeline

A guideline boundary within which all text-based graphics should be placed

An alternate version of the master with no on-screen text

Why is Timecode important?

All of these

Timecode is the only clip metadata that cannot be altered by the user

Timecode is how the software links clips in a project to its source media

Timecode is how in and out points are plotted

Which of these is motion graphics software?

Sony Vegas

After Effects

None of the above

Premier Pro

All of the above

Which of the following makes use of the 3:2 Pulldown process?

Converting film footage to an NTSC television frame rate

Condensing multiple audio tracks for export

Live switching between multiple sources

Legalizing video chroma levels to broadcast norms