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Avid Editing Final
final Review
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Film, Theatre & Television
Undergraduate 3
04/04/2008

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Term
What are the three important files located in the Avid Projects folder?
Definition
bins, settings, and project files
Term
What is the Attic?
Definition
Where your bin file backups are stored. With the date and time stamp. Is the ultimate undo
Term
What is the first window you see once the Avid starts up?
Definition
select project window
Term
What are the names of the six tabs at the top of the project window?
Definition
bins, settings, effect palette, format, usages, and info
Term
Which setting menu would you go to to adjust the sample rate of your project?
Definition
audio projects setting- main tab
Term
What are the three types of autosave?
Definition
auto save internal minutes, inactivity period seconds, and force autosave at minutes
Term
Which setting would you adjust to change the default timecode of a sequence?
Definition
Default starting timecode.
Term
What are the names of the two edit monitors?
Definition
bin monitor and edit monitor
Term
What three things can you store in a bin?
Definition
clips, sequences, and effects
Term
How do you create a bin?
Definition
click new bin tab in project window, right click inside the project window and select new bin, press control+n, and open file menu select new bin
Term
How do you create a new sequence?
Definition
Right click inside the bin and select new sequence, Right click inside the timeline and select new sequence, R click inside source or record, and open clip menu and select new sequence, CTRL+Shift+N
Term
What are the four view modes of a bin?
Definition
frame, script, text and brief
Term
Where is splice in and what does it do?
Definition
V
Term
What key is overwrite and what does it do?
Definition
B. Add new clips to the sequence and keeps the same duration. Must be same length as previous clip.
Term
What does the lift function do and where is it located on the keyboard?
Definition
Lift is the Z key it removes the marked area and creates a black hole.
Term
What does the extract function do and where is it located on the keyboard?
Definition
Extract key is located on the X key when you extract material, the clips after move up closing the gaps.
Term
Which tool displays audio levels?
Definition
audio tool
Term
Which tool would you use to create tone media?
Definition
go to audio tone -> peak hold button -> create tone media
Term
What tool would you use to adjust the audio levels of a clip?
Definition
Audio Mixer
Term
What is automation gain?
Definition
way to adjust audio levels and pan adjustment in real time.
Term
What needs to be adjusted in order to add audio keyframes?
Definition
Bottom left corner of timeline, click fast menu button and select audio auto gain
Term
How do you delete an audio effect?
Definition
park cursor on keyframe, turns to hand and press delete
Term
What is the audio punch-in tool?
Definition
used to record directly to your time line, for voice overs/narrative work
Term
Where is the effect palette located?
Definition
In the project window. Between format and settings
Term
What are the three types of effects in Avid?
Definition
Transitional, segment, and motion
Term
Segment effects are applied ______ on the clip
Definition
directly
Term
These clips include time warp
Definition
motion
Term
Between two clips on the head or tail
Definition
transitional
Term
Used to adjust effects
Definition
effect editor
Term
What is nesting an effect?
Definition
adding multiple effects on top of each other
Term
Where can you go to render an effect?
Definition
render button, right click on clip go to render at position, go to clip menu and select render and use the render button on hte tool palette.
Term
What does match frame do?
Definition
allows you to locate the source
Term
Where do you go to open the title tool?
Definition
tools menu
Term
What are the safe action and safe title areas?
Definition
areas of the video image considered safe for cropping either action on screen titles. Safe action is 90 percent of the screen.
Term
How do you open a previously created title from a bin into the title tool?
Definition
park on title and select the effect editor
Term
Can titles created in photoshop be used in avid?
Definition
yes
Term
Can you capture footage from a source without machine control and timecode?
Definition
yes
Term
What are the waveform and vectorscope used for and where are they located?
Definition
located in video input tools

waveform monitor- gain

vectorscope - color
Term
Three things you need to see on the slate?
Definition
sticks, scene #, and take #
Term
What function do you use to sync an audio clip to a video clip?
Definition
In syncing bin add clips to be synced - video and audio
select auto sync inputs
Term
How do you activate audio scrubbing?
Definition
capslock
Term
the material outside the in and out points of a clip
Definition
handles
Term
timecode with :
Definition
non-drop
Term
timecode with ;
Definition
drop
Term
Buttons to create new audio track
Definition
Ctrl+Y
Term
Lift button
Definition
Z
Term
Extract button
Definition
X
Term
component or composite supplies best video signal?
Definition
component
Term
S-Video or component?
Definition
S-Video
Term
Dual or single trim for L cut?
Definition
dual
Term
Green dot means?
Definition
real time effect
Term
Blue dot means
Definition
unrendered
Term
What are some Avid Systems?
Definition
Avid Express DV, Avid Express Pro, Avid Xpress, Avid Media Composer, Avid Media Composer Adrenaline, Avid Film composer, Avid Symphony, Avid DS Nitris, and Avid newscutter
Term
Monitors are
Definition
source on left and record on the right
Term
Tells where you marked your clip in case someone moves it around.
Definition
position indicator
Term
pink and purple tracks are
Definition
active
Term
If sync lock is on in Avid during trimming, what does the system do as you trim?
Definition
add black
Term
One of two things must be on in order to move clips, they are
Definition
lift overwrite and extract splice in
Term
extract splice in is used for
Definition
reordering clips
Term
lift overwrite
Definition
lifts the clip and writes it over another
Term
Clips are made of two files.
Definition
master and media
Term
The master clip is the
Definition
tape name, start and end, and timecode
Term
Is the actual video and audio recorded.
Definition
media file
Term
What are the various ways you can capture material?
Four ways
Definition
1. Capture on the fly
2. Mark in and mark out while playing if you don't want to digitize.
3. Log and Batch capture
4. Capture from nontimecode source
Term
IRE stands for
Definition
Institute Radio Engineers
Term
Has RY and BY gain
Definition
vectorscope
Term
You can fix the waveform with Black and
Definition
Y gain
Term
Common color bars standard
Definition
SMPTE
Term
CD player =
Definition
audio input gain
Term
What is the external hardware piece avid needs
Definition
limiter
Term
Super bin, a bin inside another is available only on Avids on
Definition
laptops
Term
Difference between drop and non drop
Definition
drop drops two frames every minute, except the tenth minute
Term
If media is offline, or you do not see it you should go to this option in file
Definition
mount all
Term
Makes clips larger
Definition
Ctrl+L
Term
Makes clips smaller
Definition
Ctrl+K
Term
L plays the clip backwards or forward?
Definition
forward
Term
Press to undo
Definition
Ctrl Z
Term
Used to move title around on the page
Definition
3D warp
Term
Where input and output settings are located, play calibration tone, and set calibration
Definition
Peak Hold
Term
Where can you reassign keys
Definition
tool menu- command palette
Term
What does lasso allow you to do?
Definition
choose parts of the film to move
Term
What kind of system is Avid?
Definition
Digital non-linear
Term
Can avid import cds?
Definition
yes
Term
What does the T Key do?
Definition
Mark clip
Term
What is an ALE File?
Definition
Avid Log exchange
Term
Where do you create a new project?
Definition
select project window
Term
In avid you can create and import
Definition
titles
Term
Unit Isis workspaces are..
Definition
Apr footage, nagra, *project title*, SfxGfx, and space
Term
User settings are specific to user.
Project settings are specific to projects
While Site settings are
Definition
default settings for avid
Term
When you create a new, shorter master clip based on only the material you have edited and included in your sequence. So you only bring in what you need. THis is called
Definition
decomposer
Term
How many video and audio tracks can you have?
Definition
24
Term
Tiny white numbers on the time line mean
Definition
out of sync
Term
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Definition
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