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Making the First Edit

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Lesson Review

  1. What do Automatic Settings do when creating a new project?

  2. Where are projects stored?

  3. Which edit command is depicted in the following figure?

  4. Which edit command is depicted in the following figure?

  5. Which toolbar button performs an append edit?

  6. What do the green-, blue-, and purple-colored stripes overlaying a Browser clip identify?

  7. When in filmstrip view, which modifier key do you hold down to edit clips into the project in the order that you selected the clips in the Browser?

  8. When performing an insert edit, what marks the Timeline location for the edit: the playhead or the skimmer?

  9. Identify the edit type used in the following figure.

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  10. Which two interface items provide additional skimming precision in the Browser?

  11. In the following figure, what does the Viewer overlay indicate?

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  12. With the primary storyline determining a project’s timing, what generic clip can be inserted to “create” time between storyline clips?

  13. In the scenario shown below, what type of edit was performed in one command?

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    Before

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    After

  14. In the following figures, identify the edit functions indicated by the mouse pointer.

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    B

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    C

  15. To append edit a clip into a connected storyline, what must you select and not select before pressing E?

  16. In the following figure, What does the –15 dB indicate?

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  17. Which interface element displays the Audio meters?

  18. Describe what will occur during playback of the following transition.

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  19. Which interface element lets you export an iOS-compatible file of your project?

Answers

  1. They conform the project’s resolution and frame rate to the first video clip added to the project.

  2. Projects are stored within a designated event.

  3. Append edit

  4. Insert edit

  5. The Append edit button

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  6. Favorite, user-applied keyword, and analysis keyword

  7. Command

  8. The skimmer, if active; otherwise, the playhead

  9. Ripple edit

  10. The Clip Appearance options for clip height and zoom, which allow you to see more clip content vertically and horizontally, respectively.

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  11. The playhead or skimmer is cued to the start frame of a clip.

  12. A gap clip

  13. Replace with gap edit (keyboard shortcut: Shift-Delete)

  14. A: Ripple; B: Roll; and C: Slip

  15. The connected storyline’s gray bar must be selected, but any clip inside the connected storyline must not be selected.

  16. The audio volume control has been lowered to play the audio clip –15 dB quieter than the audio clip’s recorded level.

  17. The Audio Meter button in the Dashboard

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  18. The GOPR0009 clip will fade in from black; but halfway through the transition, Mitch’s interview will suddenly cut in and be visible until the GoPro clip becomes fully opaque.

  19. The Share pop-up menu

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