Avid Media Composer 101 certification, Exams of Advanced Education

Avid Media Composer 101 certification

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Avid Media Composer 101 certification
C - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Which button will allow the frames to be
displayed so that you can see a bunch of pictures (representative frames) of your
clips in your bin and not just the list view (with only text information) or the script
view (which has a picture accompanied by minimal text information)?
The New Project button in the Select Project window - correct answer When you
begin a new project, you have to set up the format for that project. Where do you
set up the initial format for a Project?
Command Palette - correct answer What tool allows you to take command of your
keyboard and user interface by allowing you to map buttons onto the the keyboard
and user interface?
Bin Settings - correct answer You want to preserve the work that you've been doing
on your sequences, subsequences, and logging of clips. You also have some custom
effects that you created in an effects bin. Where can you change the Auto-Save
Interval so that you can make sure that your bins are saved regularly?
File menu > Settings > User tab and Select Project window - correct answer All
projects have a user profile associated with them. You can control which user profile
your using by creating and/or importing them in a couple different menus or
windows. Where are the options for creating and importing a User profile located?
Windows - correct answer The Composer window, the Timeline window, and the Bin
Container window are the three primary windows in the Media Composer Interface,
but more windows can be added and arranged. Which menu contains options for
arranging the Media Composer interface?
Double click the clip icon - correct answer You can double click an effect icon to load
an effect onto a selected clip in the timeline, but how do you load a clip in your bin
into the Source window to watch it?
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C - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Which button will allow the frames to be displayed so that you can see a bunch of pictures (representative frames) of your clips in your bin and not just the list view (with only text information) or the script view (which has a picture accompanied by minimal text information)? The New Project button in the Select Project window - correct answer When you begin a new project, you have to set up the format for that project. Where do you set up the initial format for a Project? Command Palette - correct answer What tool allows you to take command of your keyboard and user interface by allowing you to map buttons onto the the keyboard and user interface? Bin Settings - correct answer You want to preserve the work that you've been doing on your sequences, subsequences, and logging of clips. You also have some custom effects that you created in an effects bin. Where can you change the Auto-Save Interval so that you can make sure that your bins are saved regularly? File menu > Settings > User tab and Select Project window - correct answer All projects have a user profile associated with them. You can control which user profile your using by creating and/or importing them in a couple different menus or windows. Where are the options for creating and importing a User profile located? Windows - correct answer The Composer window, the Timeline window, and the Bin Container window are the three primary windows in the Media Composer Interface, but more windows can be added and arranged. Which menu contains options for arranging the Media Composer interface? Double click the clip icon - correct answer You can double click an effect icon to load an effect onto a selected clip in the timeline, but how do you load a clip in your bin into the Source window to watch it?

1 and 2 - correct answer 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 clip's representative frame? Press Ctrl/Cmd + K - correct answer How can clip images be made smaller in the bin's Frame view? Folder Browse Button - correct answer I have projects on two external hard drives (Hard Drive 1 and Hard Drive 2). I've been working on my projects on hard drive 1, but now have to work on a project that's located on hard drive 2. Which button in the Select Project dialog box is used to navigate to the location of an external project? Bins - correct answer You've adjusted your autosave intervals under the bin settings and are regularly saving these in the Attic during an Autosave. Interface - correct answer You can change from light mode to dark mode, adjust the fonts, and highlight colors. Which user setting do you select to change the look of the Media Composer interface? The clip is moved - correct answer On a local, non-editshare system, What is the result of dragging a master clip from one bin to another within your own project? Private and Shared locations are hard-coded and cannot be changed - correct answer Private, Shared, and External locations operate differently. How do the Private and Shared locations for saved projects compare to the External location, which can be mapped to anywhere? Button E - correct answer Refer to the illustration. The Source Browser allows you to view folders as Media Volumes, thereby reducing the need to search through folders to find media files from camera original sources. Which button allows you to view folders as Media Volumes? All of the above - correct answer The J-K-L keys are pretty universal across platforms for controlling playback in time-based media editors, how can you play back clips and sequences with the J-K-L keys in Media Composer?

A - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Which tool allows you to quickly rearrange segments in the Timeline without removing any frames? The unused portion of a master clip - correct answer What does the term handle refer to on a clip that we're trimming? Space Bar - correct answer If I want to preview a playback loop on the timeline surrounding the cut point that I'm trimming, what button should I press. Trim functions - correct answer These four keys (m ,. /) perform which functions by default? P [ ] - correct answer 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? B - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Which Smart Tool button can you use to shorten a segment in the Timeline without leaving a gap? Ctrl+Alt (Windows)/Cmd+Option (Mac) - correct answer Which modifier key(s) snaps the position of your segment to the tail frame to an edit point in the Timeline? C - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Identify the Link Selection Toggle, which allows you to select a segment and simultaneously select all other segments that have a sync relationship with it? Drag the effect icon from the Effect Editor to a bin - correct answer You can save the effects that you create for use on future projects, how can you save an effect template? Set IN and OUT marks around the edits - correct answer 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? True - correct answer True or false. The Transition Corner display consists of six total frames: the first, middle, and last frames of the A and B sides of the transition.

Both the A and B sides need handle lengths half the duration of the transition. - correct answer 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? Change the length and position of transitions - correct answer Refer to the illustration. What is the function of the transition manipulation tool labeled C? The second effect replaces the first effect - correct answer You were going to nest an effect, but you forgot to hold down option, so this happens when you drag one transition effect onto another in the Timeline? B - correct answer Refer to the illustration. Identify the Transition Manipulation Tool button that you must click before you can drag a transition in the Timeline to change its duration or position? First, middle and last frames of the B-side of the transition - correct answer Refer to the illustration. What does the bottom row of images represent? D - correct answer Refer to the illustration. The quick transition menu limits your dip to color choice to black, so if you want to change it to a dip to white, which tool allows you to change the color of a Dip to Color transition? D - correct answer Refer to the illustration. If you no longer want an effect, get rid of it by clicking this button. It is a real-time effect. - correct answer It's important to know if an effect has to be rendered of or not in order to play back properly. If I see a green dot on an effect, what does that indicate about the effect? True - correct answer True or false. FluidMorph is NOT a real-time effect, and so I have to render the effect in order for it to playback in realtime. Eliminate a jump cut in an interview - correct answer Just as we practiced in the book, FluidMorph is frequently used to...

A and B - correct answer Which of these time based effects are created from clips loaded into the Source Monitor? A Motion Effect can only create a constant speed variation while a Timewarp Effect can create a variable speed - correct answer How does a Motion Effect differ from a Timewarp Effect? True - correct answer True or False? The duration of a Freeze Frame is set once it's created as a rendered effect You can trim the clip to make it longer, but it becomes a real time effect. Create a Motion Effect of the same duration as a marked section of the timeline - correct answer What describes the 'Fit to Fill' function? A and B - correct answer I don't know why the producer wants you to change the font, but she does... Where would you modify the font in a title? A movie file that contains no media - correct answer What describes a QuickTime reference movie as opposed to just a QuickTime movie? Scale from Legal to Full Range - correct answer Which Color Levels option should be used when exporting a video for playback on a mobile device as compared to playback on a television? B - correct answer Refer to the illustration. When exporting a QuickTime, which button would you click to set the video codec and audio sample rate? Select a previous version of the bin from the Attic - correct answer Someone (certainly not you) deletes a sequence. How can you save the day and recover the sequence? Use the Media tool to delete all associated media files - correct answer What's the appropriate way to delete all of the media associated with a project so you don't have random media orphans hanging around?

Reveal File - correct answer Master clips point to the media, but aren't media themselves. Which function can be used to find media for a clip? True - correct answer True or false. The actual video and audio media for your master clips is stored on your drives, and not within the Master clips in your bin. Delete the media database files - correct answer What is the recommended troubleshooting step when some of your media is offline? (I had some of you do this)

  • correct answer In the Timeline window, Track Selectors act a digital routers routing your signal. What do they allow you to do?