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| What can you do in the digibase browser? |
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| View, Rename, Move, Audition, Import |
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| What is the name for the DigiBase browser only found in TDM systems? |
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| Which Browser is only found in a TDM system? |
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| What are the browsers within DigiBase? |
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| Workspace, Volume, Project, and Catalog |
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| What does a "T" Performance Volume Designator mean? |
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| Transfer only, will not playback or record |
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| What does a "P" Performance Volume Designator mean? |
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| Playback and Transfer, Will not record |
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| What does a "R" Performance Volume Designator mean? |
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| Record, Playback, or Transfer, you can do what you like with that drive |
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| While Pro Tools is open, what is the proper procedure to unmount a drive? |
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| Unmount from the Workspace Browser menu |
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| What are the three ways to create a new catalogue? |
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| Drag and Drop, Create Catalog from selection, and Drag folder to catalog icon in the workspace browser |
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| Advanced Authoring Format |
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| What is containd in the MetaData? |
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| Info about the media and session, including bit depth, sample rate, time stamp, region names, and media used |
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| What is the limit in size you can have of embedded media in a OMF or AAF file? |
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| What is the name of the upgrade that enables OMF/AAF files in Pro Tools? |
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| Who created the OMF standard? |
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| If Digidesign's parent company invented OMF files, why are Pro Tools users the only ones that have to pay to use them? |
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| Because Digidesign Hates You |
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| How do you export OMF audio? |
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| What are the two schools of thought regarding surround mixing? |
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| Envelopment and Localization |
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| Sound comes from all around with no point source |
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| Sounds are distinguishable as coming from a specific position |
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| Which speakers are placed in different places when comparing the SMPTE/ITU spec with the P&E wing spec? |
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| What is the difference between a sub and an LFE? |
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| An LFE is a Production Channel, and a Sub is a Playback Device |
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| What is the film channel assignment? |
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| What is the SMPTE/ITU channel assignment, and what control surface utilizes it? |
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| L,C,R,LFE,Ls,Rs; Control 24 |
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| What is the DTS channel assignment, and what control surface utilizes it? |
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| L,R,Ls,Rs,C,LFE; Pro Control |
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| Controls the amount of bleed into other speakers |
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| What is Center Percentage? |
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| Controls how much of a signal goes into the center speaker |
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| An algorhythm used for data compression |
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| What are the two general types of CODECS? |
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| What is another name for lossless compression? |
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| What is the reduction in quality of a lossless compressed file? |
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| None, Bit for bit Identical to the original |
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| What is MLP? What is its reduction rate? |
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| Meridian Lossles Packaging, 2:1 |
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| What are some other lossless file formats? |
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| Apple Lossless, Perfect Clarity Audio, and Monkey's Audio |
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| What are the two main types of Lossy Compression? |
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| Perceptual Coding and Predictive Analysis |
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| What is Perceptual Coding? |
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| Tries to fool your ear based on the laws of Psychoacoustics |
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| What are the three things Perceptual coding uses to reduce file sizes? |
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| Frequency Coding, Masking, and Stereo Localization (Summing High Frequencies to mono signal) |
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| What is Predictive Analysis? |
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| Code predicts where the wave is going and only encodes the errors |
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| What are the two types of Bite Rates? |
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| Constant Bit Rate and Variable Bit Rate |
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| Which is optimal for streaming? |
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| Which is optimal for downloading? |
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| What type of media does Serial Copy Management work on? |
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| What does the Scrub Trim Tool do? |
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| Plays back as you're trimming |
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| Changes tempo to fit the area you are trying to trim to |
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| What does the object grabber allow you to do? |
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| Select multiple objects without selecting the time |
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| What does the seperation grabber allow you to do? |
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| Drag selection from region while automatically seperating it |
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| Which tool cannot be used as part of the smart tool combo? |
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| How do you suspend the grid to make Pro Tools act like its in slip mode temporarily? |
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| Position within a region used for alignment |
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| What is the hotkey to link Timeline and Edit Selection? |
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| What are the 4 ways of freeing voices? |
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| Mute Frees Assigned Voice (Preference), Voice=Off, No Output or send selected, and making tracks inactive |
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| What does Continuous Scroll Mode do? |
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| `Keeps playline centered in your screen |
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| What does the center playhead scroll mode do? |
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| Makes Pro Tools operate like a tape machine |
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| What is the universe window? |
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| Session Overview, shows all tracks not hidden for the length of the session |
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| What tracks are not shown in the universe window? |
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