Final Cut Pro X (25)

Question 1

Images different sources of light have a different _____ (or __________) to them.

Answer 1

color or temperature

Question 2

Fluorescent lighting adds a ______ cast to photos whereas tungsten (incandescent/bulbs) lights add a _________ tinge to photos.

Answer 2

bluish

yellowish

Question 3

The range in different temperatures ranges from the very ____ light of blue sky through to the very ____ light of a candle.

Answer 3

cool

warm

Question 4

So for cooler (____ or _____) light you’ll tell the camera to warm things up and in warm light you’ll tell it to cool down.

Answer 4

blue or green

Question 5

manual white balance adjustments
The way this is used varies a little between models but in essence what you do is to tell your camera what _____ looks like in a shot so that it has something as a reference point for deciding how other colors should look. You can do this by buying yourself a white (or grey) card which is specifically designed for this task – or you can find some other appropriately colored object around you to do the job.

Answer 5

white

Question 6

Contrast is the scale of difference between black and white in your images. Without contrast you wouldn’t have an image because there wouldn’t be any _______________ between light and dark; everything would be black, white, or a single shade of grey somewhere in between.

Answer 6

differentiation

Question 7

An image with high contrast will exhibit a full range of _____ from black to white, with dark shadows and bright highlights. If you shoot in bright sunlight, you’ll produce images that are ‘contrasty’. Typically, high contrast images will enjoy strong, bold colours and textures will be emphasised. You might think of them as being deep and interesting.

Answer 7

tones

Question 8

A low contrast image, on the other hand, won’t exhibit a great deal of difference between its lights and darks, and as a consequence, it might appear flat or dull. Photos that you take in the fog or mist are perfect examples of low contrast images. That lack of difference between light and dark will also give you _____ colours.

Answer 8

muted

Question 9

Aperture means ‘hole’ or ‘opening’. In a photography sense, the aperture is the gap that allows _____ to pass through the lens. The bigger the opening, or the aperture, the more light passes through. That’s pretty intuitive. When you’re taking pictures in low-light settings, a bigger aperture will help you to take a photo where you can see something.

Answer 9

light

Question 10

The second effect that aperture has on photographs concerns depth of field, or how much of an image is in _____. If you use a small aperture, you will notice that the depth of field in your photos will increase: more things in the background and foreground will be in focus.

Answer 10

focus

Question 11

When you hear people throwing around numbers such as ƒ/1.8, or ƒ/22, they are referring to aperture. Aperture is measured in ƒ-stops, with ƒ/1.4 being a very ___ aperture and ƒ/22 a very _____ aperture.

Answer 11

big

small

Question 12

That the large number represents a small aperture and the small number indicates a large aperture can be more than a bit confusing. It will probably help to think of the ƒ-stop scale like this: those numbers correspond to fractions; the fraction being how big the aperture—or the opening—is. Thus ƒ/4 corresponds to a quarter and ƒ/8 to an eighth. An eighth is obviously smaller than a quarter; this means that it is a smaller aperture, it lets in less light and it gives a greater _____ __ _____.

Answer 12

depth of field

Question 13

Finally, perhaps you’re wondering what those fractions are fractions of? They’re fractions of the length of the lens you’re using. The aperture of a 28mm lens at ƒ/1 will be 28mm. Similarly, the aperture of a 50mm lens at ƒ/4 will be 12.5mm. The ______ the ƒ-stop, the _______ the aperture.

Answer 13

bigger

smaller

Question 14

An editor’s dream is to always have clips that are perfectly white balanced and ready for editing, but that’s not always the case. That’s where FCP _____ ___________ tools earn their keep

Answer 14

Color Correction

Question 15

And the most common color correction scenario? The camera has been white balanced at the start of the recording day, but due to shifts in lighting temperature or setups during the day, clips created later in the day have a color ____ or unwanted color ____.

Answer 15

cast

tint

Question 16

The correction tools include an ____ _______ feature that instructs FCP to neutralize the color and brightness of an image.

Answer 16

auto balance

Question 17

The balance feature ___________ any detected color cast within an image to create a color balanced image.

Answer 17

neutralizes

Question 18

A color cast is an unwanted ____ in the image due to the lighting, the white balance of the video camera, or the type of film stock used given the lighting conditions during the shoot. Color casts exist because one or more color channels is inappropriately strong or weak. Furthermore, color casts aren’t usually uniform across an entire image. Often, color casts are stronger in one portion of the image (such as the highlights) and weaker or nonexistent in others (the shadows, for example).

If you examine an image with a color cast in the Waveform Monitor set to Parade, you can often see the disproportionate levels of each channel that cause the color cast when you examine the tops of the waveforms (representing the highlights) and the bottoms of the waveforms (representing the shadows).

Answer 18

tint

Question 19

FCP attempts to create a clean image in which highlights are clean whites and shadows are clean blacks with no color _____.

Answer 19

casts

Question 20

The Balance feature also works to maximize the ________ of an image

Answer 20

contrast

Question 21

There are two sub-states in the Balance feature:

Answer 21

Not Analyzed and Analyzed

Question 22

Not Analyzed: An auto color balance is performed based on the _____ under the playhead

Answer 22

frame

Question 23

Analyzed: An auto color balance is performed based on an average color balance correction for the entire ____

Answer 23

clip

Question 24

A clip or clips may be analyzed for color balance during ______ or later in the editing or finishing stages. It may be done manually or automatically.

Answer 24

import

Question 25

When a Browser clip is selected, the Video inspector displays four categories:

Answer 25

Video, Audio, Info, Share

Question 26

When a Browser clip is selected, the Video inspector displays four categories, one of them being Audio. Under Audio, you will find:

Answer 26

Color > Balance

Spacial Conform

Question 27

You may analyze a selected Browser clip by choosing ______ > Analyze and Fix

Answer 27

Modify

Question 28

An unanalyzed clip may still be color balanced. With the playhead cued over the clip, in the Color Section of the Video inspector, select the _______ checkbox. FCP analyzes the frame and then applies a color correction to adjust the contrast and remove any detected color cast. The balance results will be based on the cued frame for the clip because the entire clip was not analyzed.

Answer 28

Balance

Question 29

To access ALL the color correction parameters, the clip must be edited into a _______ and have the playhead cued over it

Answer 29

project

Question 30

Now that the clip is in the project, you can apply a manual correction to adjust the image’s _______ and _____ _______

Answer 30

contrast and color balance

Question 31

Each Video clip has a __________ 1 enabled in the Color section of the Video inspector by default

Answer 31

Correction 1