Post production edit terminology quiz

Question 1

What are scratch disks?

Answer 1

Disk space to store scratch files for your project. These include captured video
and audio, conformed audio, and preview files

Question 2

What is Media Cache?

Answer 2

The Media Cache is where Premiere Pro stores accelerator files, including peak
files (. pek) and conformed audio (. cfa) files.

Question 3

What is a workspace?

Answer 3

The Premiere Pro interface is made up of panels that are organized into a layout,
and saved as a workspace.

Question 4

Source window

Answer 4

The Source panel is used to preview video clips selected from the project
window. It is where you trim clips, manipulate effects and other things.

Question 5

Program window

Answer 5

The program window shows you the active timeline

Question 6

In point

Answer 6

the place you want the clip to begin

Question 7

Out point

Answer 7

The place you want the clip to end

Question 8

Handles

Answer 8

the extra footage before the in-point and after the out-point is called a “handle”

Question 9

Mute

Answer 9

Temporarily mutes a track

Question 10

Solo

Answer 10

Soloing a track mutes all tracks being mutes but the solo’d one

Question 11

Ripple Edit

Answer 11

Adjusts an edit point and moves other clips in the timeline to compensate.

Question 12

Rolling edit

Answer 12

Adjust an edit point between two clips without affecting the rest of the timeline.

Question 13

Keyframing

Answer 13

A value for an attribute that is set in time.

Question 14

Export

Answer 14

To create a copy of the current selected timeline in a format you choose.

Question 15

Primary colour Correction

Answer 15

The purpose of primary CC is to get all the footage looking correct,
realistic and balanced.

Question 16

Secondary colour correction

Answer 16

focuses on a particular part of the screen to correct or add
emphasis.

Question 17

Colour grading

Answer 17

the purpose of color grading is to give the film a certain “look, which can vary
depending on the genre or the mood the director wants to create.

Question 18

RGB Color Space

Answer 18

The colour space used for film editing, made up of values of Red, Green and
Blue channels ranging from 0 – 255 for each color.

Question 19

Waveform Monitor

Answer 19

displays the luminance information on a scale of 0 to 100 IRE’s

Question 20

RGB Parade

Answer 20

displays the chrominance information for each individual RGB channel.

Question 21

Decibels (dBs)

Answer 21

Units used to measure the intensity of sound: 0dB is near silence; 10dB is 10
times as loud; 20dB is 100 times as loud; 30dB is 1000 times as loud; and so on.

Question 22

Audio normalizing

Answer 22

Is the process of changing the overall volume of an audio clip so that you
reach (and don’t pass) a target level. I usually normalize spoken audio to -6dB and background
music to -18dB.

Question 23

Peak amplitude

Answer 23

Is the maximum absolute value of the signal. This is the loudest that it will be.

Question 24

Dynamic range (DR)

Answer 24

Is the difference between the loudest and the quietest part of your
audio, and is measured in decibels. Depending on which genre of audio you’re working with,
you’ll need to have a wider or narrower DR, so keep this in mind. Classical music, for example,
will have a much wider DR than Pop or Rock.