Final Cut Pro X (10) Flashcards
What do the Automatic Settings do when creating a new project?
They conform the project’s resolution and frame rate to the first video clip added to the project.
resolution
A measurement of the output quality of an image. The most common units to measure resolution include: PPI (pixels per inch), DPI (dots per inch), LPI (lines per inch), and SPI (samples per inch). For our purposes, we will focus on DPI and PPI because that is what you will be dealing with most often when printing photographs.
megapixels
simply means “one million pixels” and is used when describing digital camera capability
PPI
PPI or “pixels per inch” is the term you will see most often when selecting a resolution for your images in photo editing software. Millions of pixels make up the image of paper and text that you are viewing on your screen right now.
pixel
an abbreviation for “picture element.”
frame rate
Think of a motion picture camera as a relentless still camera, taking many still photographs every second. Movies create the illusion of motion by showing still images in rapid succession. The number of images photographed per second is referred to as the frame rate of the movie and is measured in frames per second (fps). Frame rate describes both the speed of recording and the speed of playback. The more frames recorded per second, the more accurately motion is documented onto the recording medium.
Recording and playback speed are usually the same, though they do not have to be. For example, if you film a rubber ball bouncing on a sidewalk at 24 frames per second, your movie will have 24 unique photographs of the position of the ball. However, if you film at 100 frames per second, there are nearly four times as many photographs of the ball’s position during the same period of time. The more frames per second, the more precisely the exact position of the ball is documented.
Note: If you play back frames at a speed different from the original recording speed, you can create temporal effects such as time lapse and slow motion.
Early television systems selected frame rates based on local electrical standards to avoid electrical interference with the picture. NTSC in North America uses 30 fps (now adjusted to 29.97 fps for color NTSC) based on 60 Hz electrical power. PAL, used primarily in Europe, uses 25 fps based on 50 Hz electrical mains.
Because film cameras are relatively simple compared to video cameras, they allow shooting and playing back with a wide range of frame rates (although the standard projection speed is 24 fps). Video formats are much less flexible, partly because of their electronic complexity and partly because a television is designed to play video at only one frame rate. However, as video technology evolves, many digital camcorders now offer several frame rate choices while maintaining compatibility with existing NTSC and PAL video systems.
Where are the projects stored?
Projects are stored within a designated event
Which toolbar button performs an append edit?
The Append Edit button (third to the right in the trio of buttons)
What does a green colored stripe overlaying a clip identify?
Favorite
What does a blue colored stripe overlaying a clip identify?
user-applied keyword
What does a purple colored stripe overlaying a clip identify?
analysis keyword
When in filmstrip view, which modifier key do you hold down to edit clips into the project in the order that you select the clips in the Browser?
Command
When performing an insert edit, what marks the Timeline location for the edit: the playhead or the skimmer?
The skimmer, if active; otherwise, the playhead
What two interface items provide additional skimming precision in the Browser?
The Zoom slider allows you to see more clip content horizontally, and Clip Appearance permits you to increase clip height and hide and view waveforms
With the primary storyline determining the project’s timing, what generic clip can be inserted to “create” time between storyline clips?
a gap clip
