Final Cut Pro X (24)

Question 1

Setting Volume Level by Role (p.364)
In Lifted Vignette, you have four audio group clips: dialogue, music, effects, and natural sound. Earlier, you categorized these clips into roles. You may use these roles to solo a group clip using the Timeline Index. Soloing by role allows you to identify any errant clip within the role and to set __________ for a role’s clips.

Answer 1

consistency

Question 2

Inside the Timeline Index, you will find these three main categories:

Answer 2

Clips, Tags, and Roles

Question 3

Open the Timeline Index and click the Roles (Index) button. The Roles Index lists the roles set for the Timeline clips. To hear only the dialogue, _______ all the audio roles except Dialogue by deselecting each role’s checkbox.

Answer 3

disable

Question 4

To hear only the dialogue, disable all the audio roles except Dialogue by deselecting each role’s checkbox. You may find a few clips, probably natural sound clips, that have not had their roles assigned. Select them in the Timeline, and in ____ Inspector, reassign their audio and video to correct roles.

Answer 4

Info

Question 5

With the Roles Index set the play only dialogue clips, you may focus on setting the dialogue using the Audio meters. Those clips should already be close to the desired audio level for this project. The dialogue clips have an average _______ of -12 dB with a top peak of -6 dB. You will need to have that 6 dB of headroom available when you later add music and sound effects to the mix.

Answer 5

peaking

Question 6

Play the project, attenuating any sound bite that exceeds -6 dB or boosting any clip that is not reaching -12 dB in the Audio meters. Once all the clips have been attacked in this way, return all roles in the index to _______ status.

Answer 6

enabled

Question 7

In this exercise, you will use keyframes and the Range Selection tool to define when an audio element such as the music should ____ under the sound bites or when the music should _____ to drive the edit

Answer 7

duck

swell

Question 8

In this exercise, you will use _________ and the _____ _________ tool to define when an audio element such as the music should duck under the sound bites or when the music should swell to drive the edit

Answer 8

keyframes

Range Selection

Question 9

Because you are focusing on audio editing, let’s go to an _____ ________-only view of the Timeline

Answer 9

audio waveform

Question 10

The keyboard shortcut _______-______-_ selects the audio waveform-ony appearance option. You can also select this in the Clip Appearance button section

Answer 10

Control-Option-1

Question 11

_______-______-Down Arrow moves to the right through the Clip Appearance options, decreasing the waveform size

Answer 11

Control-Option-Down Arrow

Question 12

_______-_______-Up Arrow moves to the left through the Clip Appearance options, increasing the waveform size

Answer 12

Control-Option-Up Arrow

Question 13

To duck music using keyframes, create two keyframes, and set the second one _____ than the first

Answer 13

lower

Question 14

To smooth out the clip’s exit, drag the ____-___ handle left to align with the start of the sound bite

Answer 14

fade-out

Question 15

To use keyframes to swell or bump up the volume, create two keyframes and set the second one ______ than the first. And maybe smooth out the end of the clip by dragging the fade-out handle

Answer 15

higher

Question 16

Keyframes can be adjusted left and right, up and down

Answer 16

you got it!

Question 17

Go back through the title of contents of the book at some point!

Answer 17

OKAY? :)

Question 18

Rather than setting two keyframes at the start of the chorus and later setting two more keyframes to duck the music, you may use the _____ _________ tool to set all four keyframes at once

Answer 18

Range Selection

Question 19

From the Toots pop-up menu, choose the Range Selection tool, or press _

Answer 19

R

Question 20

Using the Range Selection tool, drag a range within the music. You’ve now defined a range where the volume _______ should swell and where the music should duck under

Answer 20

control

Question 21

To set the keyframes in a range, press the Select tool and drag the volume control within the range. The marked range will set the ____ keyframes you will need to swell and duck the music as you raise the level within the range. You will now need to adjust the four keyframes for volume level (vertical) and timing (horizontal).

Answer 21

four

Question 22

Always remember that you should spend as much, if not more, time on the audio edit as on the video edit. And be aware that your audio edit begins when you first select _____ _____.

Answer 22

sound bites

Question 23

Although beautiful visuals are important, audio __________ makes the difference between competence and excellence.

Answer 23

refinement

Question 24

FCPX includes _____ ___________ features in the Inspector that you can use to repair errors in recorded audio

Answer 24

Audio Enhancement

Question 25

The three Audio Enhancements available are:

Answer 25

Loudness
Background Noise Removal
Hum Removal

Question 26

Audio Enhancement - Loudness
This analysis evaluates if a clip’s volume is too low. The correction it offers is to boost the volume without over-modulating or peaking. The Amount parameter controls how much ____ to boost the signal. The Uniformity parameter __________ the range of loudness between the softest audio and the loudest audio.

Answer 26

gain

compresses

Question 27

Audio Enhancement - Background Noise Removal

Identifies and removes a constant _____ within a clip (such as an air conditioner or rumble of traffic)

Answer 27

noise

Question 28

Audio Enhancement - Hum Removal
Identifies __________ _____ present in the audio signal. Select the appropriate AC Ground Loop frequency and FCP will remove the hum. In the U.S., the AC frequency of a standard 100v outlet is 60Hz.

Answer 28

electrical noise

Question 29

If a slight to moderate problem is detected, the analysis feature is _______ in the Audio Enhancements pane. The repair parameters are not enabled allowing you to decide the severity of the issue.

Answer 29

flagged

Question 30

When the Audio Enhancements pane is open, every selected clip or cued clip under the playhead is automatically analyzed. If a serious problem is detected, the respective repair is flagged. You may enable and ______ the repairs’ parameters.

Answer 30

adjust