Making The First Edit

Question 0

Where are projects stored?

Answer 0

Projects are stored within the designated event.

Question 1

What do the automatic settings do when creating a new project?

Answer 1

Automatic settings conform the project’s resolution and frame rate to the first video clip added to the project.

Question 2

What edit command adds a clip to the end of the timeline and what is the keyboard shortcut for it?

Answer 2

Append. The keyboard shortcut is the letter E.

Question 3

What keyboard shortcut inserts a clip into the primary storyline or the selected storyline?

Answer 3

W

Question 4

What to the green, blue, and purple stripes overlaying a clip identify?

Answer 4

Green shows that a clip is a favorite.
The blue line denotes user created keywords.
The purple line denotes computer generated keywords created when the computer analyzed the clip during import.

Question 5

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?

Answer 5

If you hold down the command button and choose the clips in the order you want them to appear in the timeline, when you use the E key to append them, they will appear in the order your selected them.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

The skimmer if active. Otherwise, the playhead.

Question 7

What is a through edit?

Answer 7

A through it is an edit point that has continuous video or audio content on either side of the edit.

Question 8

What is a ripple trim?

Answer 8

A ripple trim does not leave a gap in the timeline. The change in the clip’s duration ripples outward, moving all subsequent clips earlier or later in the timeline.

Question 9

What is an edit point?

Answer 9

Edit points define the part of the clip you want to use in an edited project. They can include start points and end points. An edit point is also a point in the timeline where the endpoint of one clip meets the startpoint of the next clip. This edit point can be selected for various operations.

Question 10

What is detailed trimming feedback?

Answer 10

Detailed trimming feedback is a setting in Final Cut Pro preferences that allows you to look at a two up display when trimming using precision editor.

Question 11

Which two interface items provide additional skimming precision in the browser?

Answer 11

The zoom slider allows you to see more clip content horizontally.
Clip appearance allows you to increase clip height and hide and view waveforms.

Question 12

The primary storyline determines the project’s timing. What generic clip can be inserted to “create” time between storyline clips?

Answer 12

A gap clip.

Question 13

What does the gap or lift edit do and what is its keyboard shortcut?

Answer 13

The gap edit takes out the selected clip but leaves a gap instead of moving the two remaining clips next to each other. The keyboard shortcut is shift>delete.

Question 14

What is a connected clip?

Answer 14

Connected clips are attached to clips in the primary storyline in the timeline. They are useful for cutaway shots, superimposed or composited images, and sound effects. Connected clips remain attached and synchronized until you move or remove them. A sequence of connected clips is a storyline.

Question 15

What is a storyline?

Answer 15

Storylines are sequences of clips connected to the primary storyline. You can use storylines for the same purpose as connected clips such as creating cutaways, composting titles and other graphics, and adding sound effects and music.

Question 16

What are some of the vantages of storylines?

Answer 16

The unique advantage of storylines is The ability to edit a sequence of connected clips within the context of the other clips in the timeline. Like connected clips, storyline can contain both video and audio, or they can be video only or audio only.

Question 17

What is the primary storyline?

Answer 17

The primary storyline is the set of clips that must be in the timeline in order to create a movie.

Question 18

What are the media browsers?

Answer 18

The effects browser
The photos browser
Music and sound browser
The transitions browser
The titles browser

Question 19

If you have nothing selected in the timeline and you append a clip, where does it go?

Answer 19

It goes to the end of the primary storyline. If you need to append something to a storyline you must select it first.

Question 20

What does an insert clip edit do?

Answer 20

An insert edit places the source clip so that all clips after the insertion point are moved forward, or rippled, in the timeline to make room for the clip being added. No clips are removed from your project. An insert edit makes the project longer by the duration of the inserted clip.

Question 21

What is three point editing?

Answer 21

Three point editing gets its name from the fact that only three edit points are necessary to determine the portion of the source clip to use and where to put that clip in the timeline.

Question 22

What kind of edits can use three point editing?

Answer 22

Insert
Connect
Overwrite

Question 23

What are backtimed three point edits?

Answer 23

In backted, three-point edits the end point, rather than the start point, is aligned with the skimmer or playhead position in either the event browser or the timeline.

Question 24

What are the steps to three points edit?

Answer 24

1. Set the source selection edit points in the event browser
2. Set the edit points in a storyline in the timeline
3. Add the source for selection to the timeline choosing either insert, connect, or overwrite

Question 25

What keyboard combination is used to insert a backtimed three point edit into your story line?

Answer 25

Shift Q

Question 26

What is the skimmer?

Answer 26

The skimmer let you preview clips and the timeline or the event browser without affecting the plane head position. You can also preview projects in the project library. You can use the skimmer to skim, or freely move over clips or projects to play them back at the speed of the pointer. The skimmer appears as a vertical line.