Avid Test #1

To ensure color and brightness import properly, make sure the scale trom _ to is selected in the Color levels section.

- full range to legal range

What is four-frame display and how do you activate it?

Activate in timeline settings to see a real-time preview in the composer window as you drag a clip with a segment tool

How do you remove a shot from the sequence and leave a gap or filler?

Activate lift/overwrite, click the shot and press backspace/delete

How do you add only an interview clips audio, without its video to a sequence?

Activate the source side audiotrack (greenand deactivate the source side video track. then drag and dror

What is this button called, and what does it do?

Add edit button, divides a segment in the timeline

in order to listen to a couple of tracks without the rest interTering, la hit solo on them because.

All unsolo'd tracks are muted

If you want to link media rather than import using the drag and- drop method from the OS level to media composer, which modifier key do vou press?

Alt (windows) or option (Mac)

What tool lets you adjust the clips audio level?

Audio mixer

What would adding a clip to an empty Timeline do?

Automatically create a new sequence

Refer to the illustration. Which Button overwrites material in the timeline?

B

Which is the correct tool button that you must have activated in order to drag a transition in the timeline or change its duration and position?

B

Which smart tool button can you use to shorten a segment in the timeliine without leaving a gap?

B (yellow line with short roll of film)

Which window serves as the central hub of your project?

Bin container

In order to add a dissolve centered on the cut, how much handle will you need on the outgoing (A) and incoming (B) sides of the edit

Both the A and B sides need handle lengths half the duration of the transition

The ripple tool can cause what?

Broken sync

Reter to the illustration. The source Browser allows you to view folders as Media Volumes, thereby reducing the need to search through folders to rnd media mles from camera original sources. which button allows you to view folders as media volumes?

Button E

You're trying to remap buttons by dragging them from the Command Palette to the interface or the Keyboard palette. Which of the mapping options at the bottom of the Command Palette will enable you to do this?

Button to button reassignment

What are the two wavs to create vour own user profile?

- Go to file-->settings, click the user tab, and select Create User Profile from the user protle popup menu - In the select project window, select create User Profile from the user profile bonun menu

How do vou enable the solo option on an audio track?

Click the S button in the Timeline Track Control panel

It the music in a sequence is too loud, how can you lower its levell

Click the musIc clips tader button and drag the mini tader down

How do you add audio crossfades to your sequence?

Click the quick transition button and set your desired options

Markers can be incredibly helpful tools when editing with collaborators. How do you add a Marker to your sequence?

Click the red Add Marker button in the Record Monitor

How can you view the audio waveforms for a clip loaded in the source monitor:

Click the toggle source record in the timeline button (bottom of the timeline and if necessary. click the waveform button in the track control panel

Which modifier key snaps the position of your segment to the tail frame to an edit point in the timeline?

Ctrl+Alt (Windows)/Cmd+option(macc)

When dragging clips from the source monitor to the Timeline, I hold down this/these modifier keys) to snap the position of the headframe to an edit point?

Ctrol (windows) / Cmd (mac)

If you no loger want an effecct, get rid of it by clicking this button

D

The quick transition menu limits your dip to color choice to black, so if you want to channge it to a dip to white, which tool allows you to change the color of a dip to color transition?

D

which track arrangement would allow vou to add only sound tracks from a video clip onto tracks A and A4, without affecting the interview video and audio on tracks V1. A1 or Az:

D

How can you ensure you add a quick transition to a video cut point and not an audio cut point?

Deactivate the audio track selector

What happens when you use extract/splice-in to remove a segment?

Deletes the segment and moves downstream content backward to close the gap

How do you lock down a shot with the stabilize effect?

Disable steadyglide in the tracking window

How can you scale and maintain a clip's aspect ratio while resizing it in the Effect Preview monitor?

Drag the control handle ini the upper-right corner of the image

you can save the effects you create for future projects: how can you save an effect template?

Drag the effect icon from the effect editor to a bin

Whiich button disables SteadyGlide?

E

What does this button do?

Link selection toggle: when active automticaclly slects associated audio When INACTIVE: lets you select audio segments individually

what's the difference between linking to and importing media?

Linking connects and original media file to the proiect in media composer; Importing ingests a copy of the origina media hie that's been converted to avid- nanve mediz

What impact does Ripple Trim have on an active track?

Moves all material to the right of the clip you're trimming forward or backward

When linking media you cannot remove the original source drive or camera card containing the media because your media will be labeled offline. True or false

True

When moving a segment to another track, the lift/overwrite tool works best. true or false?

True

to edit source content in the timeline between an in and out region, hold the ctri windows) or command Mac) key while dragging and dropping. True or false

True

Which button activatees and deactivates trim mode?

U

FIlmIn the blank: to save changes to a workspace, go to _-›Worksnaces-->Save Current

Windows

Why might you disable the Segment Mode button when scrubbing throush the Timeline with the Position Indicator on the TC1 Track?

With the Segment Mode Button enabled you could accidentally drag a segment out of order.

Can you save a transition as a template? if so, how?

Yes, drag the effect icon from the effect editor to a bin

In the Timeline window. Track Selectors act a digital routers routing vour signal. What do they allow vou to do?

a, b, and c

What are these trim types?

a-side overwrite, b-side ripple trim dual-roller trim

vvhat does right-clicking on the record monitor and selecting "Clear Monitor" do?

at closes the current sequence and clears the ameline

vvhere does Media composer store the mies for private proiects that other users cannot access?

in the logged-in user's documents folder

What are two key color conventions in Avid Media Composer and what are you supposed to think about with each?

• Yellow: Caution Red: Stop

Which user setting includes an option for changing the default segment tool?

Timeline

What is the name and functions of the tool labeled C?

Transition manipulation tool. change the length and position of transitions

These keys (m,./) do what by default?

Trim functions

Auto patching lets you automatically patch tracks based on track acuvarons. True or false

True

Auto-save settings control how often media composer automatically saves a conv of vour bins) . True or False

True

Handle is the unused portion of a source clip. True or False

True

One way to ensure you maintain sync when editing segments into a sequence is to enable all record tracks containing elements that need to stay in sync. True or false

True

The principal goal of a rough cut is to assemble a full scene or video that focuses on story structure while understanding that many details need to be polished later. True or False

True

To move a tabbed bin into its own floating Bin Container wIndow, drag the bin tad away trom the ellgible eages but keep it within the right panel or the Bin container. True or false?

True

True or false: The transition corner shows the first, middle, and last frames of the transitiions A and B-side handle

True

True or false: the transition corner display consists of 6 total frames: first, middle, and last frames of A and B sides of the transition

True

How can vou save vour work? (select all that applv)

-Activate the bin container sidebar and press CTRL+S or command+S -Activate the bin you want to save and go to file -> save bin - Activate the bin you want to save and pres CTRL+S or command +S -Activate the binn containerr sidebar and go to file -> save all

If you add a Dip to Color transition effect, how do you change its color?

-Adjust the background color inn the effect editor -Drag and drop the color effect on top of the dip to color transition

Besides dragging the mini fader, which of the following methods or shortcuts adjust the clip gain in the timeline? (select all that apply)

-Click a clips fader icon and use the up and down arrows to adiust the gain in 0.1 DB increments -Click it clips fader icon and then use number keys to enter a specific value -Shift plus alt plus us / down (windows) or shift blue option plus, up down (mac) arrow keys

If you want to add dissolves to multiple cuts, how do you identify which cuts will receive dissolve?

-Enable the destination video track selector -Set IN and OUT marks to select the group of cuts -Apply to all transitions

Refer to the image. With segment mode configured as a smart tool, which of the following is true

-Media composer automatically switches the active tool as vou move the cursor up or down within a timeline segment -Positioning the cursor over the top half the segment activate it's the lift / overwrite tool -Positioning the cursor over the bottom half of the segment activates the extract splice in tool

How do you enable digital audio scrub? (select all that apply)

-Shift-drag through the timeline to enable temporarily -map the toggle digital audio scrub button (play tab or the command pallette) and enable it

What does J- K- L playback let you do?

-To play backward at 1 slash 4 speed. by pressing and holding the K plus J keys -Plav forward at one. 2. 3. 5. and 8X normal speed -Move forward or backward frame- by- frame by holding the K key as you tap L or J

Why do you use the source browser? (select all that apply)

-To preview video on a camera card before adding it to a project -To add video and audio to a proiect

By default, without modifers, and in this forder, which functions are mapped to these keys?

-a&s Toggling the segment mode -Z Lift -X extract -V Splice-in -B overwrite

Which editing functions are more likely to break sync?

-splice in -extract

What are the three princibal windows of the Avid interface chose three

-timeline -composer window -bin container

What are two ways to load a clip in the source monitor?

-• Double-click the clips thumbnail or icon -Click and drag the clips icon or thumbnail to the source monitor

With the bin in Frame view, you can choose the image that's displayed on a clip from within the clip itself. This is referred to as the representative frame Which keys would change a selected clin's representative frame?

1, 2, 3, 4

Refer to the illustration. Which tool allows vou to quick v rearrange segments in the Timeline without removing any frames:

A

What is filler?

A tangible empty space in the timeline that you can manibulate in the same wav as video and audio segments

Which tool lets you rearrangge video segments in the timeline

Extract/splice in

When importing, if you receive this message: the [file director cannot be imported. vou cannot use that video media in media composer. True or False

False

What does the bottom row of images represent?

First, middle, and last frames of the b-side of the transition?

Which effect can hiide jump cuts?

Fluidmorph

How would you mark a source clip, so it back times from its out point when edited between marks in a sequence?

If necessary. clear the source clips endpoint and then mark and out point at the desired endpoint for the content

How do you create a new project:

In the Select Project window. click the New Proiect button. hill in the dialog box that appears, and clicK OK

Which setting lets you change Media Composer's brightness?

Interface

what do they go to the previous event and go to next event functions do?

Jumps the timeline position indicator forward or backward from edit to edit

What's the difference between the lift and extract functions?

Lift removes material from the timeline and leaves filler in its niare• extrac removes material rrom tre uire and closes the can left bv its removal

If you add audio crossfades to multiple cut points and an Insufficient Source dialog box appears, what's caused this?

One or more clips in the marked region doesnt have enough handle

If you didn't want to do it with the mouse, what keys would you press to change the side of a transition point that is selected for trim?

P[]

How can you increase waveform height without affecting track height?

Press CTRL+ALT+ L (windows) or option+command+L (mac)

How can vou increase the size of waveforms in the Timeine without changing the height of the track?

Press Ctrl+Alt L (Windows) or Cmd+Option+L (Mac)

How can clip images be made smaller in the bin's Frame View?

Press Ctrl/Cmd + K

Private. Shared. and External locations operate differentlv. How do the Private and Shared locations for saved broiects compare to the External location. which can be manned to anvwhere?

Private and Shared locations are hard-coded and cannot be changed

You realize that you have to tighten up a shot to hide a garbage can that's just at the edge, which effect allows you to achieve this?

Resize

You can restore an active workspace to the last saved version or reset it by clicking the little arrow menu icon next to the workspace and selecting

Restore to Saved or Restore Current to Default

You can save time editing by applying multiple transitions to a specified area of the timeline. How should you select a region of multiple transition areas for this purpose

Set IN and OUT marks around the edits

Which botton on vour kevboard allows vou to select a segment while also setting In/Out marks directly in the timeline

T

On a local, non-Avid Nexis system, What is the result of dragging a master clip Trom one bin to another within your own project?

The clip is moved

Which option in the Select Project dialog box lets you switch the proiect directory displaved in the Proiect list?

The location pop up menu

What happens if you drrag a transition effect from the effect palette onto an existing transition in the timeline?

The new transition effect replaces the existing one

To remove an audio segment, you click it with the Lift/Overwrite tool and press the Delete key. The segment stays in place. You press Delete a second time and the segment is removed as expected. Why?

The segment contains a clip gain adjustments, and the first deletion removes it

What do you enable before you directly adjust a transition effect's duration or Timeline position?

The transition manipulation tool

What does the term handle refer to on a clip that we are trimming?

The unused portion of a master clip