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| 1) | Which of the following does not belong? |
| | crop
freeze
strobe
reverse
fit to fill
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| 2) | Which of the following does not belong? |
| | pan
cube
mute
scrub
distort
equalise
normalise
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| 3) | Which of the following does not have any relevance to the post-production process? |
| | kerning
rolling
toddling
crawling
true type
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| 4) | Which of the following does not belong?
(this one may require some lateral thinking) |
| | jog
cue
pause
shuttle
preroll
unthread
fast forward
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| 5) | Which of the following does not belong? |
| | cropping
letterbox
pillarbox
anamorphic
pan & scan
high definition
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| 6) | Which of the following does not belong? |
| | SCSI
iLink
Firewire
IEEE 1394
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| 7) | Even though editing is performed on a computer, video sequences should be checked on a television screen or monitor because: |
| | the computer screen represents colours with a different hue and larger colour space than a television screen
television screens use interlaced scanning which means that high contrast fine lines may flicker
you should check what your image will look like with the outer edges (the non-title-safe region) missing
all of the above
a & c
b & c
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| 8) | If the audio levels for your editing sequence are too high, then: |
| | the sound will interfere with the video
any loud sounds will clip, and this will distort the audio
the background noise will be louder than the voices
all of the above
a & c
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| 9) | If a videotape contains more than one video frame with the same timecode value, then: |
| | it's a really, really big videotape that records more than 24 hours of footage
batch capturing may result in the wrong footage being acquired
there is at least one timecode break on the tape
any of the above could be true
none of the above are true
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| 10) | Why might you want to export a reference movie rather than a standalone movie: |
| | the reference movie will save handles for later editing
the reference movie will save a backup of the render files
the reference movie will create a complete version of your video sequence as a self-contained file
the reference movie will allow you to save disk space, as you can then delete media and render files
all of the above
none of the above
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| 11) | If you are making a video that is going to be put on a standard DVD, you should set the editing project's audio sampling rate to: |
| | 16kHz
32kHz
44.1kHz
48kHz
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| 12) | If you are making a video that is going to be streamed on the internet, you should avoid using: |
| | chroma keys
cuts between scenes
picture in picture effects
horizontal or diagonal wipes
crossfade or dissolve transitions
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| 13) | Video content that occurs outside the action safe region of the image: |
| | can be ignored, because it won't show on a television screen
should not contain any material that is vital to the story
will cause interlace flicker
all of the above
none of the above
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| 14) | Standard DV video that is going to be transmitted in a wide screen format, should be edited in: |
| | an analogue format
an anamorphic format
a letter boxed format
a pillar boxed format
any of the above
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| 15) | Audio that is going to be presented fully utilising 5.1 Surround Sound requires: |
| | 2 audio tracks
5 audio tracks
6 audio tracks
11 audio tracks
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| 16) | Which of the following is not a colour space used for colour television systems? |
| | RGB
YIQ
YUV
CMYK
Y, Cr & Cb
Y, R-Y & B-Y
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| 17) | Which format will give you the highest quality pictures (ie. uses the least destructive compression): |
| | DVCAM
DVCPRO 50
Betacam SX
Digital Betacam
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| 18) | Which format will give you the highest quality pictures (ie. uses the least destructive compression): |
| | HDV
HDCAM
HDCAM SR
DVCPRO HD
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| 19) | Which of the following is wrong? |
| | Tape format D7 is the SMPTE ratified standard for Panasonic's DVCPRO
Tape format D8 is the SMPTE ratified standard for Sony's Digital-8
Tape format D10 is the SMPTE ratified standard for Sony's IMX
Tape format D11 is the SMPTE ratified standard for Sony's HDCAM
Tape format D12 is the SMPTE ratified standard for Panasonic's DVCPRO HD
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| 20) | Tick each statement that is correct: |
| | MPEG-2 is a video compression standard used for DVD and DVB
MPEG-7 is a media content description and metadata standard
ITU-R BT.601 is a common standard for digital video signals
DVCPRO 50 includes specifications for a compression technique and videotape structure
AES/EBU is the commonly used name for a digital audio format ratified by the AES and EBU
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| 21) | A computer network used for the central storage of video files, may be called: |
| | a SAN
a RAID
a JBOD
a SCSI
a NODE
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| 22) | Which of the following isn't a shared video storage system? |
| | Avid's Unity
Apple's Xserve
Discreet's Flame
Grass Valley's Profile
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| 23) | Which of the following doesn't perform as an NLE? |
| | Matrox Axio
Avid's Symphony
Adobe's Premiere
Discreet's Smoke
Apple's Final Cut Pro
Grass Valley's Kalypso
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| 24) | Which of the following isn't a video capture device? |
| | AJA's Kona
Avid's Meridian
Matrox's RT.X100
Autodesk's Cleaner
Canopus's ADVC500
Digital Voodoo's Fury
Bluefish444's Catalyst
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| 25) | When you tell your editing system to Render a video effect, what does it do? |
| | Creates a new video file
Plays the effect on the screen
Downloads the required effect from the internet
Adjusts the captured media file, so that it includes the effect
Plays back two or more video files with an effect adjusting what is shown on the screen
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| 26) | When it comes to picture quality, the best way to turn an MS into a CU is to: |
| | crop the footage
zoom the footage
re-shoot the footage
interpolate the footage
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| 27) | When putting text onto a video, it's best to use: |
| | san-serif fonts
anti-aliasing
both of the above
neither of the above
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| 28) | If a particular PAL picture is identified with a timecode reading of 00:01:08:19, then the picture that occurs two seconds and eight frames later (assuming it's an unbroken recording) will be: |
| | 00:01:10:02
00:01:10:19
00:01:11:02
00:01:11:27
00:03:11:27
00:03:16:19
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| 29) | If your computer went missing, you could recreate your video edit with little effort, so long as you had which two of the following? |
| | your render files on a FireWire drive
your captured video files on a FireWire drive
a disc or flash drive with an EDL of your project on it
an exported reference movie of your project on a FireWire drive
the original videotapes of the raw footage (with no timecode breaks)
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| 30) | Which of the following processes will not change the timecode values on a videotape? |
| | performing an insert edit
performing an assemble edit
striping/blacking a video tape
all of the above will change the timecode values
none of the above will change the timecode values
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| 31) | What type of timecode would you not want recorded on the master copy of your videotape? |
| | BITC
VITC
LTC
2 or 3
None of them
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| 32) | If you are going to edit footage from a DigiBeta cassette that will be released solely on DVD, then your preferred editing codec would be: |
| | DV
HDCAM
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
Uncompressed SD
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