AVID Media Composer 101 Exam

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  • Created by: DWatson
  • Created on: 03-03-20 11:36
Where does Media Composer store the project files for private projects?
In the logged on user Documents folder
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Name the four principal windows of the Avid interface
Composer, Timeline, Project, Bins
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How do you create your own User Profile?
Select User in the Project Menu
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How can you save changes to a Workspace?
Workspaces -> Windows -> Save Current Workspace
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Where can you get additional AMA plug-ins?
Marketplace -> AMA Plugins
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Name two ways to load a clip into the Source Monitor
Double-click icon or drag and drop icon into source monitor
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Name the default keys for marking IN and OUT marks
I + O
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How can you view the audio waveforms of your source material?
Toggle Source button
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How do you maintain sync when editing segments into the sequence?
Select the Sync Logs
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What does Extract do?
Removes clip from Timeline without leaving gap
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What does Lift do?
Removes clip from Timeline and leaves gap
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How do you backtime an edit?
Mark in and out point in the source and out point on the timeline and then overwrite it
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What type of edit is performed by default when you drag a clip from Source monitor to the Timeline?
Overwrite
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If the music is too loud, how can you lower the volume of just the music?
Use the mini-fader or drag down on the line in the audio clip
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Why is Segment Mode Lift/Overwrite well-suited for editing audio?
Helps keep the audio in sync
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What is the danger of performing a Ripple Trim?
Could put it out of sync
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What impact does Ripple Trim have on a track and/or the sequence?
Makes it shorter or longer
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What is a handle, and why is it important in the context of effects?
The clip must be the length of the handle, if it is too short can't successfully transition
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What must you do to ensure a Quick Transition is added only to a video cut point, and not an audio cut point?
In the effects editor you can change it or disable the audio channels
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What function must be enabled before dragging a transition effect in the Timeline to change its duration or position?
Transition Manipulator
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How do you apply an effect to multiple segments?
Highlight the segments in the timeline and then double-click the effect in the effects editor
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Once a clip is stabilised, how can you compare the stabilised result with the original video?
Enable/disable parameter in the Effects Editor
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Under what category is the Fluid Morph located in the Effect Palette?
Illusion FX
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Using a Resize effect, how can you scale a clip in the Effect Preview monitor but maintain the aspect ratio?
The handle in the upper-right
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How do you add an effect to a clip in the Timeline on top of an existing effect?
Tools -> Effect Palette -> Category -> Option Key -> Apply Segment Effect
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What methods can you use to view the effects inside of a nest?
Park on a clip with nested effects and use step in/out (or with option key)
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What is an advantage of expanded nesting?
You can edit the contents of a nest and still see the composite effects in the composer
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What are the three types of motion effects?
Freeze frames, motion effects and timewarp effects
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How are freeze frames created?
They are generated from a source clip
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How are motion effects created?
They are generated from a source clip
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When should you use Interpolated field render for motion effects?
i video
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How do you open the Avid Title Tool?
Tools -> Title Tool Application
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How do you revise a title?
Right-click the segment in the timeline, select Add/Edit title
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In which menu can you find the Export command?
Export Menu
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Your sequence contains audio, but the QuickTime movie you exported does not. What may have caused this?
Video and Audio radio buttons
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How do you create a new export template?
Export Settings Dialogue -> Save As
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What function can be used to find the media for a clip?
Reveal File
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Some of your media is offline. What is a good troubleshooting step?
Delete the database files
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How do you relink files?
Right-click on the selected item in the bin and go to 'Relink'
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Name the first three letters of the media database files
MSM
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In which folder are the media database files found?
Avid Media Files/MXF/1
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What is AMA?
Avid Media Access
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How do you create a sub clip?
Press Alt + S or drag the clip icon from the Source Monitor to the bin
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What type of trim moves an entier segment between its neighboring segments but doesn't change the footage or duration of the moving segment?
Slide
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If a clip is loaded in the Source monitor, how can you quickly open the bin that contains the master clip?
Click the Find Bin button
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What type of trim creates split edits on the video track without changing the transition points on the audio tracks?
Dual-roller Overwrite
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What order does Media Composer use when you select a group of clips in Frame view and drag them to the Timeline?
Left to right, highest to lowest
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What is on the left column of track panel?
Tracks that are loaded in the source monitor
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How do you open a Timeline?
Tools -> Timeline
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The fast menu button looks like what?
Hamburger
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What does Choose Bin -> Align and Fill -> Fill Window do?
Arranges clips in a grid pattern as wide as the window allows
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What does Choose Bin -> Align and Fill -> Align to Grid do?
Clean up like MAC
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What is the duration of the AutoSave Interval?
15 Minutes
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Avid will only Autosave once you have been inactive for how long?
15 Seconds
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How do you enable audio waveforms?
Track Control Panel -> Waveform Button
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What does Splice-in do?
Pushes subsequent clips further after it
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What does the Splice-in button look like?
Horizontal yellow arrow
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What does the Lift button look like?
Upwards red arrow
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What does the Go to Next Event button look like?
Right arrow, I , green icon
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How would you set the Go to Next Event to go to the next edit point?
Right-click Composer window and choose Composer Settings and then Ignore Track Selections
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How do you snap the position indicator to the first frame?
Hold the alt key
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If your mouse is over the upper half of a clip on the Timeline, what does it show?
Red - Segment mode or trim roller
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What is in the four frame display (from left to right)?
Last frame before edit point, first frame of shot you are adding, the last frame of shot you are adding, the first frame of shot afterwards
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What does the Link Selection Toggle do?
When you select a video segment, it will automatically select its audio segments too
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How do you enter Trim Mode?
Select the Trim Mode icon on the Timeline or Command + U
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What does the Go to Next Trim icon look like?
Right arrow, 2 purple lines
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How do you duplicate a sequence in the Composer Window?
Right-click in the Record Monitor and select Duplicate
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What does the Quick Transition button do?
Opens up Quick Transition dialog where you can add a transition
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How do you rename a bin?
Click on the bin name
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How do you open a single bin?
Double-click on the bin
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What does an icon in the bin look like if a clip is in shared storage?
It is underlined
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What does an icon in the bin look like if a clip is a motion effect?
It looks like a master clip but in italic
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How do you open the Source Browser?
File -> Input -> Source Browser or right-click in an open bin and select Input -> Source Browser
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What are the three tabs in the Source Browser?
Explore, Favourites, Recent
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What does the frame view icon look like?
4 square boxes
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What is an advantage of importing media?
Overall system performance is better with Avid native media
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How do you prevent graphic files and still images from being distorted on import?
Select resize image to fit format raster in the image size adjustment section
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How do you drag and drop a media file that you want to link from an OS file browser?
Hold alt key and drag clips from OS window to an open bin
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How do you open the audio mixer?
Tools -> Audio Mixer
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What does the shortcut T do?
Mark Clip
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How do you add comments and keywords to clips?
Select the Script View button in the bin
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What is the keyboard shortcut for activating the project window?
Ctrl + 9
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What does patching do?
Enables you to edit a source track onto any track in the sequence
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What is the shortcut for Lift?
Z
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What is the shortcut for Extract?
X
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How do you snap the position indicator to the first frame?
Press and hold the CTRL key
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How do you snap the position indicator to the first frame?
Press and hold the CTRL + ALT keys
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What is the shortcut for Splice-In?
V
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What is the shortcut for Overwrite?
B
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What does cap locks do in terms of the timeline?
Toggles digital audio scrub
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