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Avid Media Composer 6

1) What is the minimum amount of RAM necessary to run Avid Media Composer 6? 2) What is the minimum processor speed necessary to run Avid Media Composer 6? 3) What is the recommended amount of internal hard drive space to effectively use Avid Media Composer 6? 4) What is the minimum internal disk drive speed to effectively run Avid Media Composer 6? 5) Will Avid Media Composer 6 run efciently on an ATI Radeon graphics card 6) What is the minimum amount of Graphics memory necessary to run full screen images from Avid Media Composer? 7) Avid Media Composer 6 News Cutter is an efcient editing platform for Apple based news and interview editing. 8) Color Grading with Media Composer 6 is an essential requirement for achieving Avid Media Composer Professional Certication? 9) When powering on your Avid editing system you should have Avid Media Composer 6 open and running so it will recognize all external hardware as you power them on. 10) When opening Avid Media Composer, ther very rst window you will see is the.. a) Project Select dialogue b) Select Project dialogue c) Select User prole d) User Select prole 11) The three types of projects available in Avid Media Composer 6 are (chose three) a) Private

b) Personal c) Public d) External e) Shared f) Internal g) External 12) When using a project available to you only, you will have to enter your password to open the le.? 13) Once youve launched Avid Media Composer 6, which of the following windows are open by default (choose all that apply). a) Project window b) Composer window c) Timeline window d) Record monitor e) Capture window 14) Which of the following is NOT an option in the Project window a) Bins b) Settings c) Effects d) User e) Info f) Format 14 Which of the following are the types of settings that can be made in Avid Media Composer? (choose all that apply) a) Local settings b) General settings c) Global settings

d) Project settings e) Site settings f) Personal settings g) User settings 15) An item is deleted from an Avid Media Composer project window. True or false? 16) Which of the following are Bin views available in Media Composer 6 a) Written b) Contextual c) Outline d) Text e) Image f) Frame g) Script 17) Which of the following two types of clips can be modied independently of the original? a) A copy of the original? b) A duplicate of the original? 18) Keyboard button number 4 performs what action in Media Composer 6? 19) Auto save options are found in which Media Composer menu? 20) What does it mean when an asterisk appears next to the name of a bin? 21) In which folder does Avid Media Composer store all your imported media 22) What functions do the following keyboard shortcuts perform? a) 1

b) 2 c) 3 d) 4 e) 5 f) 6 g) 7 h) 8 i) 9

23) What format does importing a clip convert the clip to..? 24) Raster dimensions of your project are found in which tab of the Project window? 25) When importing a still image what button will you click in the Select Files to Import window to adjust your import settings? 26) To ensure that imported images are broadcast legal (even if not created specically for broadcast) which button must you enable in the Import Settings dialogue. 27) By default which will be transparent in MC-6, Black alpha channels or White alpha channels? 28) Bins opened from a closed project are opened in a folder called... 29) Give the correct command to list available AMA codecs in your console window 30) When you Enable AMA Volume Management what must you do for this change to take effect? 31) To Consolidate media is to a) Copy b) Transcode c) Transcode and Copy d) Move, Transcode and Copy

32) Is it possible to create a sub clip from a clipped which has been AMA linked? 33) True or False, when the originating media of a sub-clip is oine. The subclip remains online? 34) True or False, neither an In point nor an Out point are essential to create a sub-clip? 35) When you drag a clip from any bin to an empty sequence where will the newly created sequence be created? 36) When does the Find feature index the media in your project? 37) What is the command to open the Find feature? 38) Name one way to load a clip from the Find feature results into the source monitor. 39) How many results from the Find feature can be loaded into the source monitor? 40) The default editing command for a drag-and-drop edit function is... 41) In which settings tab can you change the default editing command for a drag and drop edit. 42) When performing a drag and drop edit, what color is the bounding box that surrounds your clip? 43) To snap a clip into position during a drag-and-drop edit, which modier key will you press? 44) What is the command to add an edit point at the current position? 45) The ve buttons in the Smart Tool Pallette determine what mode..? 46) True or False. When performing a drag-and-drop edit, you can chose the edit type by carefully positioning the pointer. Over the top half of the destination trackc for an overwrite, over the bottom half for a slice-in. 47) To change the representative frame of a clip in a bin you must be in which bin view?

48) when using extend what is the determining factor when trying to extend multiple tracks at once? 49) What is the edit function called which simultaneously changes the the duration of both; the incoming and the outgoing clips? 50) When performing a trim in which both edit points are altered, what color is the edit point? 51) Will the overall duration of your total timeline be altered when performing a single roller trim? 52) What color is the bounding box that surrounds the values for pre-roll and post-roll? 53) What color is the bounding box that surrounds the values for the numeric trim amounts? 54) With the B side of an edit point selected, which key will adjust its position later in the timeline by one frame? 55) When using Trim mode and looping playback, with the A side selected, which key will you press to move the edit point to the location of the current position indicator? 56) In Trim mode with loop playback selected which key will you press to play only the B side of the transition? 57) When using Slip mode, which side of the incoming clip will be selected? 58) What will you do to swich from Slip mode to Slide mode? 59) To enter Slide mode which modier key(s) will you press while lassoing the intended clip. 60) Which modier key will you hold while draggin the devider line between two track in the timeline in order to expand only one track? 61) Where will you nd the ability to enable the Track Control Panel? 62) In which menu will you nd the Markers

63) With V1, V2 and V3 enabled which track will receive a marker when you click the Add Marker button? 64) In which menu will you nd a list of sequence markers? 65) In which menu will you nd the command to add a new Audio Track Mono? 66) What color are all other tracks when any track is soloed? 67) What color is any track when muted? 68) True or False, when recording an audio punch-in Media Composer gives you the option of recording in either Stereo or Mono? 69) True or False, the In and Out points determine the recording area during audio punch-in? 70) When using Audio Punch-in, what is the command to play from in-to-out? 71) When using Audio Punch-in, what is the keyboard shortcut to begin recording? 72) When using audio punch-in, Avid Media Composer creates a new bin labeled, Recorded Audio Takes in which you will nd all master copies of your voice over recordings? True or False? 73) During a Punch-in, what must you do to ensure that youre monitoring the Incoming audio, rather than the Outgoing audio? 74) What is the maximum number of tracks that can be displayed in the audio mixer. 75) To connect any two audio tracks to enable simultaneous adjustment of each. Which button must you click? 76) In the audio mixer what option allows you to apply a pan setting to all clips on enabled tracks with one click? 77) Other than None, what are the three settings for which you can view an audio keyframe line on the selected track(s)?

78) What does the pink triangle (lol) represent on a segment in your timeline? 79) If two keyframes exist at the same point on an adjacent and enabled track. What must you do to modify both values at once? 80) Which modier key must you hold to ensure that you move a keyframe in time rather than adjust its value? 81) To move several keyframes at once on any enabled track in the timeline what must you do? 82) What is the keyboard shortcut to add a quick transition? 83) The option to adjust the Media Composer display brightness is found in which settings dialogue? 84) What are the two panes available in the Timeline settings window? 85) Other than None, what are the two options for viewing a Movement During Play in the timeline? 86) What is the keyboard shortcut to select the timeline settings? 87) In the timeline settings dialogue, what are the options available for the default edit type? 88) Other than Head-Tail frames, what are your other two options for viewing video in the timeline? 89) In which menu will you nd the option to alter the font in any individually selected window? 90) In the Command Pallette, in which setting will you nd the ability to remap keyboard shortcuts to menu options? 91) If you were to reassign the Source Record Editing window layout to a button in the timeline window. What two letter acronym would appear on the button? 92) The rst step in creating a Multicam clip is to select the clips youd like to use. What is the very next step?

93) The next step in creating a multicam clip is to align them. Identify three options for clip alignment? 94) The maximum number of angles you can include in your multicam clip is? 95) What keystrokes will you use to cycle between angles in a multicam while viewing only one angle in the source monitor? 96) What color is the line under the active angle while viewing more than one angle in the source monitor. 97) What modier key will you press to view the angle names in the source monitor during multiclip editing? 98) The act of keeping your video angles together with their native audio during a Multicam edit is referred to as... 99) What are the two title options available in the Title Creation dialogue? 100) Before you remove the representative frame when creating titles in Avid the button to toggle off is what color? 101) To create a title larger than 128point, what font type must be used? 102) The box in which you can drag a shadow sample to adjust your shadow angle is called what? 103) In which menu will you nd the Soften Shadow command? 104) When you enter Effect Mode, what window does the Record Monitor become? 105) Fade is referred to as what type of effect as it requires no rendering to see in full effect. 106) In the Media Creation settings what is one selectable destination for effect render les? 107) The option to Add Filler at Start is found under which menu?

108) Which tool will you use to create tone for the Bars & Tone portion of your sequence? 109) Which menu within the required tool will you access to create your tone? 110) MC-6 offers two options for exporting your media as a digital le. They are..? 111) What is the command to set an in point while logging on the y? 112) What is the command to set an out point while logging on the y? 113) What is the command called to capture all logged clips at once? 114) True or False, deleting the master clip gets rid of the actual clip media Have a nice day!

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