RTVB Final Review

What is the keyboard shortcut for an Extract edit?

' (apostrophe)

What is the keyboard shortcut for an Insert Edit?

, (comma)

Generally, where should you aim to peak your output levels?

-12 db

Which is not a common video aspect ratio?

1:6

What is the keyboard shortcut for Make Subclip?

Command + U (Mac) or Ctrl + U (PC)

What CAN'T you do from the Button Editor?

Convert menu items to buttons

If you want to see the image of your interview video (V1) below your b-roll video (V2), what can you do?

Disable the b-roll clip(s) on V2 Click the toggle track output eyeball icon on V2

How do you climb into a nest to access the clips inside?

Double-click the nest.

What is the difference between duplicating a clip and copying/pasting a clip?

Duplicating will append .Copy01 and copy/pasting will not (the clips are named the same).

Performing a standard import via the media browser creates brand new media files.

False

What do the Up and Down arrow keys do?

Go to Previous Edit / Go to Next Edit

If you need to significantly modify the keyframes of an existing title animation, where do you do it?

In the Effect Controls Panel

If you change any values within the Effects/Video/Audio/Caption/Publish tabs, what happens to your originally chosen Preset selection?

It changes to Custom.

What does snapping do?

It magnetizes your editing movements, therby creating an attraction between Timeline elements.

What does the Morph Cut transition do?

It visually blends two clips together that are separated by a jump cut.

If you want to add a marker and immediately add a note, what should you press?

MM

To soften the edge of a mask shape, what parameter value should you increase?

Mask Feather

When tracking a mask that needs to appear and disappear over the duration of the clip, what parameter is the most useful to adjust?

Mask Opacity

If a stereo clip has static on one channel, what is the best option?

Modify the audio channel configuration on the source clip to eliminate the static channel

What edit type is best used for editing video b-roll?

Overwrite

What command corresponds with Option + K (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift +Spacebar (PC)?

Play IN to OUT

The main difference between Export and Queue is that Export exports from _____ and Queue exports from _____?

Premiere Pro; Media Encoder

To keyframe speed in the timeline, what must you first do?

Right-click on the FX icon on the clip, then change the animation type to Time Remapping > Speed

How do you access additional metadata columns in List View

Right-click the bin header and select Metadata Display.

Which is NOT a bin view type?

Script View

Which is NOT a way to adjust audio volume?

Select the clip and press V to open the Volume meter and make an adjustment

Which is NOT a typical question you should ask yourself during color correction analysis?

Should I add a vignette to this image?

If you want to cleanly swap shots (without fear of flash frames), what command do you need to be sure is enabled?

Snapping

What are benefits of creating a Search bin?

The search criteria can be multi-dimensional The search is dynamic, so as future assets match criteria, the will be added. The search can be saved.

What is one visual way that you know if a clip in the Timeline has had a master clip effect applied to it?

There is a small red badge unlining the FX label on the clip.

How do you disable an effect in the Effect Controls Panel?

Toggle the FX button to the left of the effect name

What does the Luma Waveform measure?

Tonality (light and dark values)

A slip edit changes a shot's content but not its position or duration.

True

A workspace is an interface configuration of windows and tools.

True

After Auto Reframing the sequence, an Auto Reframe effect is placed on every clip in your sequence.

True

Copy/Paste Attributes allows you to cherry-pick only the effects that you want to copy to other clips.

True

In the Effect Controls Panel, the effects are applied in order from top-to-bottom.

True

Within the Effect Controls Panel, you can animate individual graphics layers separately, and you can also keyframe the entire title as a whole.

True

You can expand your marker beyond a single frame—so that it covers a longer duration in your sequence or clip.

True

If your interview video is edited on V1, then what track is your video b-roll most likely on?

V2

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Slip tool?

Y

When you create an effect preset, where do you later access your saved preset from?

You access it from the Presets category at the very top of the effects list in the Effect Palette.

What is NOT a major benefit of using Adobe Media Encoder?

You can perform basic clip, audio and effect editing straight from within Media Encoder.

What is a benefit of using adjustment layers during effect design?

You only need to apply the effect to one element, rather than all of the separate clips in your sequence. You can use multiple adjustment layers in tandem with one another, each containing a different set of effects. If you need to modify an effect, you can do so just once.

Where do you store your assets withn the Project Panel?

bins

Gradient tool

creates straight-line and radial blends between colors

Paint Bucket Tool

fills similarly colored areas with the foreground color

Quick Selection tool

lets you quickly "paint" a selection using an adjustable round brush tip

Hand tool

moves an image within its window

Clone Stamp Tool

paints with a sample of an image

Eyedropper

samples colors in an image

When you perform a color match, the software attempts to match tonality and color balance between shots. However, which traditional color correction value isn't adjusted (and therefore must you adjust manually)?

saturation

Magic Wand

selects similarly colored areas

When you trim in (making the clip shorter) you are _____ your clip speed; when you trim out (making the clip longer) you are _____ your clip speed.

speeding up | slowing down

When performing a top or tail edit, you must be mindful of

track selection

Crop tool

trims and straightens images

The basic workflow for correcting a shot is to 1. correct saturation value, then 2. remove color cast, then 3. correct tonality (light and dark values).

False

To brighten up your fleshtones, you should place a control point in the lower part of the luma curve and drag down and to the right.

False

To design a title, first select the Source Monitor, then go to Graphics > New Layer.

False

To make an animation happen more quickly, you would increase the distance between keyframes.

False

To repair sync for a clip that is abutting two adjacent clips, you should usually choose the Move into Sync option.

False

When adjusting audio, the best workflow to take is to first adjust audio VOLUME to set a baseline; then set audio GAIN to tweak individual clips.

False

When performing a roll trim, the sequence will get shorter.

False

When working with still images, you don't have access to the full image resolution because the image is automatically down-converted to video resolution

False

When you keyframe an effect, you must manually add a keyframe every time you adjust a parameter value.

False

You an only open one project at a time in Premiere Pro

False

You cannot re-map a command to a key that has an existing keyboard command.

False

What does the Set to Frame Size command do?

It visually resizes the image to fit within the video frame at the correct aspect ratio - but you still have access to the full image resolution

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Rolling Edit tool?

N

The keyboard shortcut for a Top edit is _____ and the keyboard shortcut for a Tail edit is ______ .

Q; W

How do you sort clips in your bin?

Single-click the bin heading.

If you try to delete a clip that is also contained in a sequence, Premiere will warn you.

True

In addition to marking shots with IN and OUT points in the Source Monitor, you can also mark shots with IN and OUT points straight from your bin.

True

The label color for assets in your bin is the same label color when you edit the clips into a sequence.

True

To lower the black point (darkest shadows), you should drag the bottom control point of the Luma Curve to the right.

True

When you click the toggle animation stopwatch next to an effect parameter, you're signaling that you're going to begin keyframing that parameter for animation.

True

You can hover scrub clips in the Media Browser.

True

What is NOT an added benefit of using the Speed/Duration window?

Variable motion control (dynamically changing between different clip speeds)

Marquee tool

make rectangular, elliptical selections

What is it called when you decide where you want your music to start and stop?

setting your music cues

In JKL navigation, what does J do?

shuttle left

When working in the Effect Controls Panel, each graphics layer has two main categories of effects you can adjust: _____ and _____.

Source Text; Transform controls

How many levels of Undo can you perform in the History Panel?

32

When you drag a clip into the Timeline window, what happens?

A sequence is created with settings that automatically match the clip's properties.

What Synchronize Point should you choose if you want to take advantage of the automatic internal syncing feature?

Audio

What is the best way to add an audio cross dissolve to ONLY the audio on a married video/audio clip?

Click the edit point and press Command + Shift + D (Mac) or Ctrl + Shift + D (PC).

When moving a clip around in the sequence, how do you extract a shot from one location of a sequence and insert it into another location?

Command + drag (Mac) or Ctrl + drag (PC) the clip from one location to another in the sequence.

How do you add audio keyframes?

Command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (PC) on the volume line

How do you temporarily enable a ripple trim while your Selection tool is enabled?

Command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (PC) one side of an edit point.

What does transcoding your media do?

Create new media files in a different format, usually to make media that is more optimal for editing.

What does creating proxies do?

Create ultra low-res to optimize for performance and system storage.

How do you see exactly how many frames you're dropping during playback?

Display the Dropped Frames Indicator, the play the sequence. If the DFI light turns yellow, then hover your mouse over it and a popup will tell you how many frames you dropped.

What is the central hub called where you open and create projects?

Home Screen

How do you change your IN or OUT point?

Hover over the IN or OUT point until a red trim bracket appears and then drag to a new location. Play the clip and mark an IN or OUT point on the fly. Your IN or OUT point(s) will be updated. Simply park at another location within your clip and mark another IN or OUT point and your point(s) will be updated.

What does the vectorscope measure?

Hue and saturation values

If you know you want your music cue to end with the end of a particular song, what combination of IN and OUT points should you set?

OUT point in the Source and IN and OUT points in the Timeline

What happens if you perform an Insert Edit with only the video source track selector enabled (and the audio track selectors are disabled)?

Only video will be edited into the sequence. Audio will be omitted from the edit.

What do you need to first do in order for the Fit to Fill dialog box to appear?

Place an IN and OUT in the Source, and an IN and OUT in the Timeline, then overwrite the clip. The Fit Clip dialog box will appear.

What parameters would you change to create a picture-in-picture effect where multiple video elements are on the screen at the same time?

Position and Scale

What is the responsive design feature in the Essential Graphics window?

Responsive design lets you pin your graphic layers to each other, as well to the video frame itself.

Which is NOT a freeze frame creation option?

Stutter Freeze (insert stutter frames in moving video to create a stuttering or strobing effect)

What is the keyboard shortcut for the Slide tool?

U

What is the difference between performing a lift vs. an extract?

When performing a lift it is very important to check your source track selectors to determine what material will be removed. When performing an extract, it's only important to check your source track selectors if sync locks are turned off. A lift will result in the same sequence duration while an extract will result in a shorter sequence duration.' A lift will remove the marked selection and leave a gap while an extract will remove the marked selection and ripple the gap closed.

If you accidentally close an important panel within the interface, how do you retrieve it?

Window Menu

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