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| Black/Color Busts run at how many cycles per second? |
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| What are four types of effects? |
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1. Hard FX - Syncs to movement and picture
2. Natural FX - Foley
3. Background/Ambient FX - FXs that don't sync to anything in the picture except start and stop. Specific BG FXs are horn honks or bird caws.
4. Movement FX - FXs that are played although the source isn't on screen, then appear on screen, then leave the screen still being played. |
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Level out dialog, narration, and overdubs. Vocals are always in front.
Do music.
Do SFX.
Pan, then get level. |
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| Speakers should be angled at __°. |
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| Speakers should be angled at 30°. |
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| The low end rolls off at 100Hz. Starting at 2kHz, each octave above is lowered by one dB. |
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| Use RTAS then TDM plugins, right? |
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| What does AFL and PFL mean? |
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| After Fader Listen and Pre Fader Listen. |
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Define each:
1) Lt/Rt
2) L/R
3) L, C, R
4) L, C, R, S
5) L, C, R, Ls, Rs
6) L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE
7) L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs
8) L, R, Ls, Rs, C, LFE |
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Left Total/Right Total (Stereo mix down of a 5.1 mix)
L, C, R, S - 4.0
L, C, R, Ls, Rs - (5.0)
L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE - Film Format
L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs - SMPTE (TV)
L, R, Ls, Rs, C, LFE - DTS (DVD) |
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| How does a 5.0 mix split into Lt and Rt? |
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L to L
Ls to L with -90°, -6dB
C to L with -3dB
LFE to L
R to R
Rs to R with -90°, -6dB
C to R with -3dB
LFE to R |
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| What does SDDS stand for? |
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| Sony Dynamic Digital Sound (7.1) (Not compatible with anything else) |
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| Thomlenson Holman Experiment |
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| What does SMPTE stand for? |
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| Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers |
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| What does NTSC stand for? |
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| National Television Standards Committee. |
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| Phase Alternating Line (European) |
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| What does AES/EBU stand for? |
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| Audio Engineering Society/European Broadcast Union |
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| Federal Communications Commission |
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| What are SMPTE and PAL Time Code Standards and Time Base References? |
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SMPTE:
30 - 60 Hz
29.97 ND - 59.94 Hz
29.97 DF - 59.94 Hz
24 - 60 Hz
23.976 - 59.94 Hz
PAL:
25 - 50 Hz |
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| What does the Digi Design Sync I/O do? |
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| It locks Pro Tools to SMPTE TC, MTC, Word Clock, Black/Color Burst, and the output all the same. |
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| How does the board communicate with the computer? |
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| With the Human User Interface (HUI). |
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| What are aux tracks used for? |
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| Automations, signal processing, and combining tracks. |
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What does VCA stand for?
In what ways is it better than an aux track? |
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Voltage Controlled Amplifier.
It's better than in aux tack because it doesn't need voice, and can act like a group master fader without activating grouping (volume control). |
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| What is the word clock used for? |
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| Keeping everything in sync. |
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| If a region sample rate is different that Pro Tools', it'll play slightly off. |
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| What is the difference from SMPTE to PAL? |
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| How much is video pull down? |
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| List the Film Format speaker order. |
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| L, C, R, Ls, Rs, LFE - Film Format |
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| List SMPTE speaker order. |
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| L, R, C, LFE, Ls, Rs - SMPTE (TV) |
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| List DTS (DVD) speaker order. |
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| L, R, Ls, Rs, C, LFE - DTS (DVD) |
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