Final Cut Pro X (19) Flashcards

1
Q

In the Timeline, activate the Trim tool by pressing T. Drag left and right in the clip. The two-up appears in the Viewer showing the clip’s _____ and ___ positions. Once you’re found the right points, release the mouse. Press X again to mark the clip

A

start and end

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2
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In the Browser, locate the Aerials clips and set an end point where the helicopter is rounding the cliff. With the Timeline clip marked by pressing X, you’ve now set up the edit. Press Shift-_ to perform the backtimed edit. Now reposition the clips to make a composite.

A

Q

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3
Q

Your two B-roll clips are stacked one above the other in the Timeline, but you can only see the top one in the Viewer. To begin, ______-click the top clip (in the Timeline) to select and cue the Playhead over the clip

A

Option

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4
Q

In the Viewer, select the _________ tool and drag the center handle to the left, watching the guides to keep the image vertically centered

A

Transform

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5
Q

Scale down the image so that it fits in the viewer. Drag the corner control points of the _________ while in Transform mode

A

wireframe

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6
Q

The Crop tool has three modes:

A

Trim
Crop
Ken Burns

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7
Q

Trim allows you to ___ off parts of the image

A

cut

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8
Q

Crop also trims off parts of the image, but then ______ up the result to fill the current frame size of the clip

A

scales

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9
Q

Ken Burns allows you to animate the visual image using _____ and ____

A

zooms and pans

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10
Q

Click Done in the Viewer and review the edit. Don’t forget that you ________-connected the edit. So, at the end of the composite, the helicopter starts to come around the cliff. Just as that is about to happen, Mitch leans forward, looking for aircraft traffic and any other potential hazards.

A

backtime

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11
Q

To choose Show Video Animation, _______-click in a Timeline clip, OR press Control-_

A

Control

V

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12
Q

When a parameter is available in the Video Animation Editor (which sits right above the clip), a ________ button is visible to the right of the Video Animation Editor

A

Maximize

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13
Q

There are three types of controls available in the Video Animation Editor to alter opacity. 1. Dragging the ____ handles left and right (such as those you use when softening an audio clip.) 2. Dragging the opacity _______ line up and down. 3. Keyframes

A

fade

opacity

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14
Q

Displayed as a percentage of total opacity, any value less than 100% is ___________ until the value reaches 0% which produces total transparency

A

translucent

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15
Q

Close the Video Animation Editor by pressing Control-_

A

V

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16
Q

The _____ __________ feature may be used to speed up the sharing of specific parameter settings amongst many clips

A

Paste Attributes

17
Q

Select the clip in which you adjusted the opacity to zero (0% = full transparency… full transparency with nothing underneath will make that layer black), and then press Command-C to copy the clip. Select the next two clips to the right, and then choose Edit > Paste Attributes, or press Command-Shift-_ to determine which of the copied clip’s parameters will be pasted to this clip

A

V

18
Q

The _____ Attributes dialog box lists the video and audio attributes available to paste from the copied clip. Opacity is not listed. If you recall, in the Video Animation Editor, opacity was listed as Compositing:Opacity. So click Compositing to paste the Opacity attribute

A

Paste

19
Q

Everything in FCP is a _________: clips, the project, events, the library - all __________

A

container, containers

20
Q

Another container in FCP, the compound clip, is really the container framework used to create the project and clip media containers. Compound clips, like storylines, are a way to contain media files with similar attributes or purpose within a project.

A

yep

21
Q

Study the following:

A
Video Properties:
Format:
1080p HD
1080i HD
720p HD
NTSC SD
PAL SD
2K
4K
5K
22
Q

Study the following:

A

Video Properties:
Resolution:
1280 X 720
960 X 720

23
Q

Study the following:

A
Video Properties:
Rate:
23.98p
24p
25p
29.97p
30p
50p
59.94p
60p
24
Q

Study the following:

A
Audio and Render Properties:
Audio Channels:
Surround
Stereo
Mono
25
Q

Study the following:

A
Audio and Render Properties:
Audio Sample Rate:
32kHz
44.1kHz
48kHz
88.2kHz
96kHz
176.4kHz
192kHz
26
Q

Study the following:

A
Audio and Render Properties:
Render Format:
Apple ProRes 4444
Apple ProRes 422 (HQ)
Apple ProRes 422
Apple ProRes 422 (LT)
Uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2