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NLE Basics
Resolved
100

This post-production role is responsible for completing the final edit but not for all of the finishing that comes after (color, graphics, sound mix, etc) 

What is an editor? 

100

This became the standard method for adding sound to motion pictures by the end of the 1920s. 

What is sound-on-film? 

100

This is the only NLE software to offer visual effects and audio workstations for free within the core software. 

What is Davinci Resolve? 

100

These building blocks of the Resolve workspace can be shown or hidden. 

What are panels? 

200

This post-production role organizes the footage, keeps track of metadata, and may assemble the first cut of a project. 

What is an assistant editor? 

200

This photography pioneer was hired to investigate horse locomotion. 

Who is Eadweard Muybridge? 

200

A standard NLE layout includes these two monitors. 

What is a source viewer and a timeline viewer? 
200

This part of a panel leads to additional options specific to that panel.  

What is the Option menu? 

300

This post-production role communicates across production and post-production teams and works to manage, backup, and convert footage. 

What is a Digital Imagining Technician? (DIT)

300

This dark room with a small peep hole in the wall allowed you to see a mirror image of the outside world. 

What is a camera obscura? 

300

NLEs are considered nondestructive because they do this with the original footage. 

What is link to it? 

300

This panel allows you to adjust particular parameters of a clip. 

What is the Inspector panel/window? 

400

This phenomenon allows us to have integrated access to media and content across various devices. 

What is convergence? 

400

This device would screen three raster beams together (red, green, and blue) to reproduce specific hues. 

What is a color tube television? 

400

Harkening back to linear film editing, NLEs call folders this. 

What are bins? 

400

If you'd like to quickly return your Resolve workspace to normal, you can choose this setting. 

What is Workspace>Reset UI Layout? 

500

According to a 2011 study, this many companies controlled roughly 90% of U.S. media.

What is 6? 

500

Technicolor and other subtractive color film processes split light into these three colors. 

What is red, blue, green? 
500

In order to keep audio and video synced together, most NLEs have this setting. 

What is link/unlink? 

500

After using the Color Page to complete the color grade on a project, you should use this page for the next phase of the project. 

What is the Deliver page? 

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