Video Fundamentals
This is the process of turning a sequence into a single file.
What is Exporting?
This tool is used to create key frames directly on the rubber bands of your audio clips.
What is the Pen Tool (P)?
This panel lets you easily modify the size, font, alignment, and/or color of text and shapes created in Premiere.
What is the Properties Panel?
This is the process of adjusting the colors and exposure of shots to more accurately match the real world and to fix inconsistencies between shots.
What is Color Correction?
This shows up along the bottom of a video when someone is speaking on camera to indicate their name and other information.
What is a Lower Third?
This is the width and height of a video or still images, measured in pixels.
What is Resolution?
This is the process of synchronizing and combining two separate media files, most commonly a video and audio file.
What is Merging Clips?
This panel contains all effects and transitions, for both video and audio.
What is the Effects Panel?
This shortcut adds the default audio transition to your current selection.
What is Shift ⌘D?
This useful overlay helps ensure that your text and graphics won't be cut off if any cropping occurs.
What are Safe Margins?
This occurs when the composition doesn't change enough from one shot to the next during a cut.
This tool allows you to select and move every clip on every track from where you click and onward.
What is the Track Select Forward Tool (A)?
This panel lets you "tag" an audio clip and contains a variety of options & sliders to adjust it.
What is the Essential Sound Panel?
This slider increases or decreases the difference between bright and dark areas.
What is Contrast?
This additional footage is used to provide visual support, improve pacing, and cover jump cuts.
What is B-Roll?
This is the notion that actions, blocking, costumes, props, and other details should remain consistent from shot to shot and scene to scene.
What is Continuity?
It takes at least 2 of these for an animation to occur.
What are key frames?
This panel contains sliders and filters for adjusting exposure and for adding stylistic changes to clips.
What is the Lumetri Color Panel?
This is a set of sliders which control the loudness of different frequencies.
What is an Equalizer (EQ)?
This is a pause in the voice over or interviews during which the diegetic audio from the current b-roll shot is loud enough to hear clearly.
What is a NAT Pop?
This basic film editing technique allows time and space to be broken by omitting parts of the story.
What is Elliptical Editing?
These are used to transcribe audio, turning what is said or heard into on-screen text.
What are Captions?
This panel lets you adjust and easily animate the properties and added effects for the currently selected clip.
What is the Effect Controls Panel?
This is a special file that contains mathematical formulas which modify colors & exposures.
What is a LUT (Look Up Table)?
This is the first major step when editing a documentary or news package.
What is a Radio Edit?