Final Cut Pro X Certification Review |71
Questions with correct Answers| A Grade
Describe the three post-production workflow phases. - -Import: The ingest process of
storing your story's source media files and organizing the clips that represent those
source files. Edit: The creative process of assembling, trimming, and effecting clips to
tell a story. Share: The export process of distributing your completed story to various
platforms.
-What options are available when Final Cut Pro asks to update your projects and events
to Final Cut Pro x 10.1 or later? - -The options presented are to upgrade all projects and
events into one library per volume, to allow you to selectively upgrade now, or to return
to the upgrade process later.
-Should you update any post-production software during an editing job in process? - -A
common practice in the post-production industry is to not update software, and in some
cases hardware, while working on an editing job.
-Which of these three is the largest container: clip, event or library? - -The library is the
largest media container.
-Describe possible organizational criteria for sorting clips and projects into events. - -
The criteria are whatever you choose; a scene of a film, a segment of a news-magazine
show, a webisode, stock footage, raw media from an SD card, all versions of the projects,
and so on. An event is a flexible storage container that can be as all-encompassing or as
granularly compartmentalized as your raw media and projects.
-Name and describe the built-in command for backing up camera media files. - -The
Create Archive command creates a clone of your source media device, preserving the
folder structure and metadata along with the source media files.
, -Where should you store camera archives? - -You may store camera archives anywhere.
However, to reduce the chance of a single-point failure taking down an entire editing
job, store your camera archives on a volume physically separate from the volume you
use for editing.
-What two views are available in the Media Import window, and when are the two views
available? - -Filmstrip and list view are available when importing from a recognized
camera card file structure. Otherwise, only the list view is available in the Browser of the
the Media Import window.
-What setting on the Zoom slider in filmstrip view allows you to see each clip as a single
thumbnail? - -All. The setting defines the time length represented by each thumbnail of
the clip.
-What keyboard shortcuts or modified skimming keys can you use to mark multiple
range selections within a clip? - -The keyboard shortcuts are Command+Shift+I and
Command-Shift-O. Holding down Command while skimming a clip also marks
additional ranges.
-Fill in the blank: With the "Create optimized media" option selected, Final Cut Pro x
transcodes imported media to the _________ codec. - -Apple ProRes 422
-When dragging files from the Finder to an event, where do you set the option to copy
(or not copy) the files into the library? - -Final Cut Pro > Preferences > select the
Import pane
-you are about to import source media files grouped into various folders. Which Media
Import option must be selected to replicate the folder structure within an event? -
-"From folders"
-When applying keywords to a clip, may keywords be overlapped? - -Yes
Questions with correct Answers| A Grade
Describe the three post-production workflow phases. - -Import: The ingest process of
storing your story's source media files and organizing the clips that represent those
source files. Edit: The creative process of assembling, trimming, and effecting clips to
tell a story. Share: The export process of distributing your completed story to various
platforms.
-What options are available when Final Cut Pro asks to update your projects and events
to Final Cut Pro x 10.1 or later? - -The options presented are to upgrade all projects and
events into one library per volume, to allow you to selectively upgrade now, or to return
to the upgrade process later.
-Should you update any post-production software during an editing job in process? - -A
common practice in the post-production industry is to not update software, and in some
cases hardware, while working on an editing job.
-Which of these three is the largest container: clip, event or library? - -The library is the
largest media container.
-Describe possible organizational criteria for sorting clips and projects into events. - -
The criteria are whatever you choose; a scene of a film, a segment of a news-magazine
show, a webisode, stock footage, raw media from an SD card, all versions of the projects,
and so on. An event is a flexible storage container that can be as all-encompassing or as
granularly compartmentalized as your raw media and projects.
-Name and describe the built-in command for backing up camera media files. - -The
Create Archive command creates a clone of your source media device, preserving the
folder structure and metadata along with the source media files.
, -Where should you store camera archives? - -You may store camera archives anywhere.
However, to reduce the chance of a single-point failure taking down an entire editing
job, store your camera archives on a volume physically separate from the volume you
use for editing.
-What two views are available in the Media Import window, and when are the two views
available? - -Filmstrip and list view are available when importing from a recognized
camera card file structure. Otherwise, only the list view is available in the Browser of the
the Media Import window.
-What setting on the Zoom slider in filmstrip view allows you to see each clip as a single
thumbnail? - -All. The setting defines the time length represented by each thumbnail of
the clip.
-What keyboard shortcuts or modified skimming keys can you use to mark multiple
range selections within a clip? - -The keyboard shortcuts are Command+Shift+I and
Command-Shift-O. Holding down Command while skimming a clip also marks
additional ranges.
-Fill in the blank: With the "Create optimized media" option selected, Final Cut Pro x
transcodes imported media to the _________ codec. - -Apple ProRes 422
-When dragging files from the Finder to an event, where do you set the option to copy
(or not copy) the files into the library? - -Final Cut Pro > Preferences > select the
Import pane
-you are about to import source media files grouped into various folders. Which Media
Import option must be selected to replicate the folder structure within an event? -
-"From folders"
-When applying keywords to a clip, may keywords be overlapped? - -Yes
