AUDIO VIDEO VOCABULARY

Question 1

What is a term in sound production referring to the music or ambiance sounds continuously playing in the background under speech or scenes?

Answer 1

bed

Question 2

What is a troll that allows combining multiple audio sources into one signal for recording?

Answer 2

Borad (mixing borad)

Question 3

This can occurs when an audio recording distorts the sound level (volume/pressure) exceeds what the equipment can accuretly capture.

Answer 3

Clipping

Question 4

What is a way of making an audio or video file smaller while trying to maintain sound quality?

Answer 4

Compression

Question 5

This is to an image as a sine wave is to sound

Answer 5

Pixel

Question 6

What is a means of evening out the sound levels in an audio file? This can be done real-time while recording in hardware or post production via software.

Answer 6

Compressor

Question 7

What is a piece of hardware (that is often incorporated into a hardware compressor) that sets a minimum sound level before any sound is recorded?

Answer 7

Gate

Question 8

What is a short audio or video clip placed at the beginning of a podcast/video cast that may have music and/or an announcement with the name of the show and episode and any other relevant information, such as sponsors?

Answer 8

intro

Question 9

What is a part of an MP3 file that allows data about the file to be stored, such as the title, author or artist, category and cover art?

Answer 9

ID3 tag

Question 10

What is a popular audio file format, commonly used for podcast (episodes)?

Answer 10

MP3

Question 11

What is a sort audio or video clip placed at the end of a podcast/video cast

Answer 11

Outro

Question 12

What is a microphone that picks up sounds from the front and back but not the sides?

Answer 12

Omnidirectional mic

Question 13

How much data a computer program can handle at a time. lower buffer sizes have lower latency, but. are more susceptible to crashing.

Answer 13

Buffer size

Question 14

What is a microphone that picks up sound from all direction

Answer 14

Bi-Directional mic

Question 15

What is recording several copies of one musical part to be preformed on top of each other?

Answer 15

Layering

Question 16

What is gradual appearance of an image, light, or sound, especially as a transition in a cinematic work, audio recording, or performance?

Answer 16

Fade

Question 17

this is a fade from one audio clip or track to another

Answer 17

Crossfade

Question 18

what is a sample rate work together to determine the resolution of digital audio?

Answer 18

Bit Depth

Question 19

what is Unwanted transfer of signals between communication channels

Answer 19

Crosstalk

Question 20

what is describing the rate at which a sound wave vibrates, measured in cycles per second, or hertz (Hz)

Answer 20

Frequency

Question 21

The process of finalizing audio for a specific medium, such as the web or an audio CD

Answer 21

Mastering

Question 22

what is a format is actually a multimedia container that holds audio, video, images, animations and menus

Answer 22

MP4

Question 23

what is a single stream of recorded sound with no location in a sound field

Answer 23

Track