Editing Process Definitions
Color Correction
Initialisms & Abbreviations
Keyboard Shortcuts
The Finer Points of Audio
Controlling Time & Space
100

Manipulating the temporal and spatial perception of the audience in order to strengthen a particular message or scene and to enhance the overall viewing experience.

What is Controlling Time and Space?

100
Rather than being a science (although various scientific tools are used in the process) Color Correction is better categorized as _______.
What is an Art?
100
NAT
What is Natural Sound? (Nat-sound)
100
Key that places a Marker in a clip or on the Timeline.
What is the "M" key?
100
The panel in Premiere that enables control of individual clips of audio within a given timeline.
What is the Audio Clip Mixer?
100

Type of keyframe that has a curved appearance to its associated value path.

What is Bezier?

200
Altering the color in an image in order to ensure proper display on-screen with the ultimate goal of enhancing the overall viewing experience.
What is Color Correction?
200
The ultimate goal of the Color Correction process.
What is enhancing the overall viewing experience?
200
SFX
What is Sound Effects?
200
Key that raises the audio level in a selected clip by 1 dB.
What is the "Right Bracket" key?
200
The layers in the timeline that contain clips of audio files.
What are Audio Tracks?
200

Often accomplished with the use of an intervalometer, this type of shot is made up of many sequential still images that can help to indicate the passage of time.

What is a timelapse?

300

The process of changing the speed of a given clip over time with special keyframes that can be manipulated within that clip on the timeline.

What is Speed Ramping?

300
The overall measure of light (brightness) captured by the sensor on a camera. It is a value that can be manipulated in post to lighten or darken the resulting image.
What is Exposure?
300

DX

What is Dialogue?

300
Modifier key that, used in conjunction with a mouse click, will twirl open or closed all Bins in the Project Window simultaneously.
What is the "Option" ("Alt" on Windows) key?
300

An effect that controls the absolute maximum audio level by suppressing any signal that exceeds the selected maximum decibel level.

What is a Hard Limiter?

300

Accomplished with combination of scale and position keyframes, this technique causes a given shot to appear to be spatially unstable.

What is shaking the frame?

400

The method of using audio waveform or visual cues as the primary components in performing the synchronization of multiple media clips in a given sequence.

What is Camera Syncing?

400
The overall measure of color intensity captured by the sensor on a camera. It is a value that can be manipulated in post to enrich or reduce the color value in the resulting image.
What is Saturation?
400
dB
What is Decibel?
400
Key that zooms the Timeline to reveal all content currently edited in place.
What is the "\" (Backslash) key?
400
The output routing assignments that may contain one or many more tracks of audio clips in a given timeline.
What are Audio Channels?
400

An effect that enables the control of Swivel, Tilt, and Distance to Image.

What is Basic 3D?

500

Taking a project to a potential client, funding entity, or even possible creative team members and presenting it to them in order to garner involvement in a variety of ways.

What is “Pitching?”

500
The two scopes (scientific analytical tools) that are most used in basic Color Correction.
What are the Waveform Monitor and the Vectorscope?
500

DSLR

Digital Single Lens Reflex

500
Key that pulls up in the source monitor the source clip and exact frame the playhead is parked on within a selected clip in the timeline. Also called: Match Frame.
What is the "F" key?
500
The panel in Premiere that enables control of entire tracks of audio with all their associated clips simultaneously.
What is the Audio Track Mixer.
500

When changing the speed of a clip, it is a tool that allows the visual and somewhat more intuitive alignment of a clip boundary to other things in the timeline (clips, markers, audio cues such as beat points in a song, etc.).

What is the Rate Stretch Tool?

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