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Basics
File Management
Editing Clips
Audio Editing
Colors and Customizable Views
100
In the UI, this is where you playback source media clips and files.
What is the Viewer?
100
When you import media, the media becomes associated with this.
What is an Event?
100
When you create a new project by going to Go To File -> New Project, this gets created/set up for you. Now, all that's left to do is drag clips unto it!
What is the (magnetic) timeline?
100
To import an audio file, what must you click on the timeline toolbar?
What is the music/audio button? (picture looks like two musical notes.) (Noticed that there was no menu selection instructions for this ....odd.)
100
The capital letters H, S, and L usually stand for this in terms of color correction.
What is Hue, Saturation, and Luminance?
200
In the UI, this is where you view, access, and organize source media files.
What is the Event Browser?
200
An event, which stores an imported media file, is a container for these.
What are clips? (Clips that are associated to the event/imported media)
200
Clips can be assigned to five basic roles. These two roles are useful for viewing/referencing video and audio clips "separately" on the timeline.
What are the "Video" and "Dialog" roles?
200
There are four cross fade video effects. This one fades out audio "more gradually" than the linear fade. The name of this fade starts with the letter "S".
What is the S-curve?
200
This browser allows you to place a title on your clip.
What is the title browser?
300
Final Cut Pro uses non-destructive editing. This means that the imported video files are NEVER altered. Instead, these "pointers" or "links" to the actual video files are changed instead.
What are clips?
300
In Final Cut 7, you had to store media in a separate "scratch" folder to store video and audio files, and ANOTHER folder was needed to store "render" files, like image thumbnails and audio waveforms. In Final Cut Pro X, all of these files are stored in the _______ Folder.
What is a Project Folder? (The render files are still in a subfolder WITHIN the Project Folder.)
300
This is the menu selection/tool name you use to cut a clip on the timeline. Bonus additional question...this is the line you move across the clip called?
What is the "Blade" tool? Edit->Blade on the menu, or "Blade" from the timeline tools menu. Bonus: what is the "skimmer"? You get an extra lottery ticket.
300
Going to Window->Show Audio Enhancements allows you to do this.
How can you remove electrical hums, coughs or loud interruptions that can happen when recording audio/video?
300
When a transition is applied to a video clip, this is automatically applied to any linked audio clip as well.
What is a crossfade?
400
This is the full, "official" name for the timeline.
What is the MAGNETIC timeline?
400
Along with being able to import from devices like camcorders and older tape-based cameras, Final Cut Pro ALSO allows you to import clips from this common, "beginner" mac video editing application.
What is iMovie?
400
When you are unsure of which media clip you want to use in your timeline - because you have to choose from a few different ones - this is the tool you use in Final Cut Pro X to help you view/decide the best one to use.
What is the auditioning tool/feature?
400
A transition between videos is simply known as a transition. When you have a transition between two audio files, it is known as this?
What is a Crossfade?
400
This is the industry term that describes combining two clips into one image.
What is Keying?
500
Final Cut Pro X is 64-bit enabled. This means that Final Cut Pro is capable of this for faster media processing.
What is multi-tasking?
500
Terms like "Synchronized clips" and "Keyword Collections" are NEW to Final Cut Pro X. They correspond to Final Cut 7 terms of "Merged Clips" and "Bins", respectively. Where can you find the "cheat list" that maps Final Cut 7 terms to Pro X?
What is Chapter 2? Or (bonus) using a Google search on "Final Cut Pro Terms cheat list".
500
This is an "industry" term. It refers to when you trim the beginning or end of a clip's content, because the most useful part of the video is usually "in the middle" of the clip.
What is a top edit and/or a tail edit?
500
Going to Window->record audio allows you to do this.
What is voice-over narration? (Record audio directly into Final Cut Pro X. Used to narrate video clips in real time as they playback.)
500
A luma key is used to superimpose a company logo/watermark over video. This key is used for green screening. That is, filtering out the "green" in a video filmed in front of a green screen.
What is a chroma key?