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| What are the three delivery formats the film editor has available? |
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| 1/4" tape, DAT's, and Hard Drives |
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| When cutting on film which takes are transferred to mono mag stock? |
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| Film backing with magnetic oxide |
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| What are the three types of mag stock available? |
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| Mag Stripe, Mag 3 Stripe, Mag Full Coat |
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| When cutting on film what is used to edit the workprint and mag stripe. |
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| What are the two main flatbed film editors? |
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| What is edge code and what is it used for? |
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| Numbers used to keep synch between The work print and the mag stripe |
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| The process of converting film to video |
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| When cutting digitally, what does the film editor recieve from the labs? |
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| What is the purpose of cutting digitally with film to conform? |
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| So it can be shown periodically to test audiences |
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| With regards to OMF why is it important to make sure everything is properly named? |
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| Poor data entry could make it impossible to use the features of the format |
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| What is the standard reference tone? |
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| In digital audio, what is the reference tone set to? |
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| What is the purpose of Time Code? |
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| To give a unique ID to each frame of video |
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| Which time code is both a positional and a clock reference? |
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| How many fields are in each frame of video? |
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| What are three common terms for the speed the media is moving? |
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| Frame Rate, Clock Speed, Clock Reference |
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| What is the purpose of 2/3 or 3/2 pulldown? |
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| To slow down video to broadcast speed |
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| What is the Fram rate for audio? |
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| What is the first rule for sound in motion pictures? |
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| See a Sound, Hear a Sound |
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| What is the responsibility of music in a motion picture? |
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| What element of a sound track drives to story? |
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| What element of a soundtrack adds realism? |
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| Who is responsible for loading up session and phasing audio? |
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| Who is responsible for splitting dialogue into different tracks? |
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| What level is dialogue most intelligible? |
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| What are the most prominant freuencies in the human voice? |
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| Which sounds are below 600Hz? |
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| What are the fundamental frequencies of the human voice? |
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| Males = 80-240Hz, Females= 140-500Hz |
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| How many times do we record each take of dialogue in animation? |
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| What do we call the take we are going to keep in Animation VO Sessions? |
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| How much space is left between each line of dialogue for animation when laid back to DAT tapes? |
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| What does phasing accomplish? |
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| Perfect synch of dialogue |
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| What is the purpose of backfill? |
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| To match ambience of ADR to Production Dialogue |
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| What are the two mutables? |
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| What are the three dialogue splits? |
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| What are three types of EDL? |
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| CMX 3600, Devalink, Titan |
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| Who is responsible for levels going to tape in a foley session? |
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| What does foley replace that would be missing from an M & E Mix? |
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| What are the benefits of using a large cap mic to record foley? |
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| What type of mic is almost never used in a foley session? |
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| What are the four things recorded in foley, in order? |
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| Cloth, Footsteps, Incidentals, Custom FX |
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| Who hires the foley artist? |
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| Who writes the foley cue sheets? |
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| Who picks the microphone for a foley session? |
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| What material is often used for formal wear? |
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| What cloth is used in martial arts movies? |
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| When looking at a character onscreen what shoukd you watch when recording footsteps? |
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| What are the three types of SFX editor? |
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| Designed, Hard, Backgrounds |
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| What are the two main reasons to layer SFX? |
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| What bg establishes the area directly around a character? |
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| What bg layer establishes subtleties of the environment? |
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| What term is used to describe vague ambience? |
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| What are the two types of sound used in bg design? |
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| Room Tone and Designed Amnbience |
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| What is the purpose of random accent sounds? |
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| To break up the repetitiveness of looped ambience |
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| What does the term Washing Machine Effect describe? |
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| Obviously looped ambience |
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| What are the three ways to conceptualize a sound effect? |
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| Original Sounds, Analogous Visualization, and Sounds with no visual congruence |
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| When using sounds with no visual congruence, what are the two main considerations when picking a sound? |
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| Frequency Content and Sound Components |
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| What is the importance of layering for perspective? |
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| What is the combination of the pre amp and A/D converters on a field recording rig called? |
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| What hard disk recorder is being used more and more for feature films? |
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| What are the two main benefits of using an outbourd mic pre? |
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| Better Quality and More options |
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| What is the most common field recording mic? |
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| What is used in field recording to avoid pops and wind interference? |
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| What are mono ambiences best used for? |
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| Radio, Internet broadcast |
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| What method of stereo recording is often used to leave space in the center for dialogue? |
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| What type of mic is used to get good recordings from a distance? |
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| What are the four main categories of vehicle recording? |
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| Mechanicals, Engine, By's, and Manuevers |
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| What are some things to do before recording vehicles? |
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| Assemble a Team, Hire a Driver, Rent the car, Contact Authorities, Find a road with a slight incline |
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| What are the three angles that need to be covered in engine recording? |
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| Front, side, and tailpipe |
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| What could you use to approximate levels when recording explosions? |
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| What are the four things to do to sounds to prepare them for archival? |
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| Remove Artifacts, Trim down, Remove Clicks and Ticks, Fade appropriate sounds |
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| Do we fade transients or ambiences? |
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| What is the archive organizational system for analogue tape? |
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| What is the archive organizational system for DAT tapes? |
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| What is the archive organizational system for CD-ROM's? |
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