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The Rundown
100

This panel is where you stack video and audio clips to build your edit.

What is the Timeline?

100

This shot size frames a subject from the waist up.

What is medium shot?

100

This pickup pattern captures sound equally from all directions.

What is an omnidirectional mic?

100

This is the main light source used to illuminate your subject.

What is key light?

100

This written plan lists each segment, story, and commercial break in order for a live broadcast.

What is the rundown?

200

This panel is where you would go to adjust the opacity of a clip.

What is Effect Controls?

200

This camera movement rotates the camera left or right from a fixed position.

What is pan?

200

This pickup pattern captures sound primarily from the front while rejecting sound from the sides and rear.

What is a cardioid mic?

200

This light is used to soften or reduce shadows created by the key light.

What is fill light?

200

This device allows the host to read a script without needing to look at a piece of paper.

What is the teleprompter?

300

While activated, this tool splits a clip wherever you click on the timeline.

What is the razor tool?

300

Placing your subject along these imaginary lines helps create balanced and visually interesting shots.

What is the rule of thirds?

300

This microphone type is highly directional and often mounted on a boom pole.

What is a shotgun mic?

300

This lighting tool is placed behind the subject to create separation from the background.

What is backlight (or hair light)?

300

This device allows the technical director to preview and transition video sources before they go live on air.

What is the switchboard (or switcher)?

400

This color-correction panel is used for exposure, white balance, and creative looks.

What is Lumetri Color?

400

This camera setting controls how much light enters the lens and affects depth of field.

What is aperture?

400

After editing your audio, this Audition menu option lets you save the final file in formats like WAV or MP3.

What is Export (File > Export)?

400

This lighting measurement describes the color of light in degrees Kelvin.

What is color temperature?

400

When a show is live, this phrase means the next segment or story is up next to go on-air.

What is "ready" or stand-by?

500

This editing technique uses diamond-shaped markers to change properties like position, scale, or opacity over time.

What is keyframing?

500

Increasing this setting brightens the image but can introduce visual noise.

What is ISO?

500

This Adobe Audition panel lets you record, edit, and arrange multiple audio tracks at once.

What is Multitrack Editor?

500

This lighting ratio creates dramatic contrast with deep shadows, often used in film noir.

What is low-key lighting?

500

This section of content within a live television production or newscast is separated from the rest of the show by commercial breaks.

What is a block?

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