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Audio Post Production
Quiz 1
40
Music
Undergraduate 3
09/08/2008

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SFS/Spotting - What is spotting?
Definition
First step in the art of telling the story of a film through sound.
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SFS/Spotting - In your own words describe the technical aspect of spotting.
Definition
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SFS/Spotting - What is the first rule of sound for motion pictures?
Definition
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SFS/Spotting - In your own words describe what a subconscious sound is and give three examples of it.
Definition
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SFS/Spotting - What is the responsibility of music in a morion picture soundtrack?
Definition
Emotion
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SFS/Spotting - Conscious sound.
Definition
Obvious On-Screen sounds
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SFS/Spotting - What is considered to be the content and drives the story of the morion picture?
Definition
Dialogue
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SFS/Spotting - What is said to add the realism to a motion picture soundtrack?
Definition
Sound Effects
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SFS/Spotting - How do you consolidate a region?
Definition
Option + Shift + 3 (mac)
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SFS/Spotting - On the Pro Control, what allows you to navigate through the session?
Definition
Zoom/ Navigate in master section
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SFS/Spotting - What are three things you can do in lab to ensure you do not lose audio files?
Definition
-Save
-Save in correct Folder
-Name Sounds Properly
Term
Foley - When lookin at a character on the screen, what part of the body should you watch when recording them?
Definition
Hips or shoulder
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Foley - How do you set up a Cue mix on the D-Control
Definition
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Foley - How do you snap the end of a region to a selection point?
Definition
Mac- Control + Command + Click
PC- Control + Windows + Click
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Foley - What must you press to nudge audio back and forth in Pro Tools?
Definition
(+) and (-) keys
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Foley - What must you do to time stamp a region?
Definition
Highlight Region
Shift Command M
Term
Sound Design - What paths and subpaths would you need to comp your designed effect to a 5.1 track?
Definition
pg 261
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Sounds Design - How do you repeat paste to fill selection to Pro Tools?
Definition
Make Copy
Selection
Option + Command + V
Alt
Term
Dialogue -
Definition
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Dialogue - At what level is dialogue most intelligible?
Definition
70-90db
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Dialogue - What is important about the frequency range between 1kHz - 3.1kHz?
Definition
Most prominent frequencies of the human voice
Term
What is the most prominent frequencies of the human voice?
Definition
1kHz - 3.1kHz
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Dialogue - In the world of dialogue what is important about 600Hz?
Definition
Vowels- below 600Hz
Consonants- above 600Hz
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Dialogue - What are the fundamental frequencies of the human voice?
Definition
Males- 80Hz-240Hz
Females- 140Hz-500Hz
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Dialogue - How many times is each take of dialogue generally recorded in a VO session for animation?
Definition
3 times
Term
Dialogue - What is a "Buy" in an animation VO?
Definition
The selected take to be used in the animation
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Dialogue - How much space is between each line of animation dialogue when they are laid back to DAT?
Definition
10 frames
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Dialogue - Define "Mutable".
Definition
An element from the work track not used in final product. It is muted. Hince "mutable"....
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Dialogue - What is "phasing" the audio?
Definition
The process in which each piece of production audio recorded into the session is nudged very slightly in time against the guide track until a swirling effect can be heard in the background. To ensure the audio is perfectly in sync with the guide track and the video.
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Dialogue - What is the purpose of backfill?
Definition
Balances ambiences from cut to cut
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Dialogue - What are the two mutable tracks?
Definition
X Track
PFX Track
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Dialogue - What is the purpose of the X Track?
Definition
simply summed up as "Bad production dialogue"
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Dialogue - What type of track would I split the dialogue to if the characters were sharing the same space?
Definition
Master Track
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Dialogue - What is the first choice of mic in the ADR session.
Definition
Same mic used on production.
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Dialogue - What type of artifacts does the dialogue editor need to remove?
Definition
Lips smacks
Generator noise
Boom pole noise
Term
Dialogue - What are three types of EDL?
Definition
Sony....
Grass Valley....
CMX....
Pg. 159
Term
Dialogue - What command focus key do you use to maintain time code position while moving a region?
Definition
Mac - Control key
PC - Windows key
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Dialogue - How do you turn on "time line insertion follows playback"?
Definition
the "N" key
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Dialogue - How do you access Pop Up takes?
Definition
Make sure in the editing tab of preferences "take region lengths that match" and "separate region operates on all related tracks" is checks.
Then Command Click
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Dialogue - Who has the challenge of mixing production audio against what is being recorded in order to make sure that the new material will work with the production material?
Definition
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