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98 Cards in this Set
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The picture editor receives the footage for the film on this format, when cutting digitally. (Note: They receive it without any sound, just picture.)
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Digibeta
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____________ are used to add an edge to your sound designs, whether they are processed sounds, low frequency elements or other subconscious elements.
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Sweeteners
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The ____________ is responsible for negotiating with the record labels for rights to songs for the film.
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Music Supervisor
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The ____________ is a term to describe the crowding of wavefronts around a moving sound source.
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Doppler Effect
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The use of a specific recording by a specific artist in a film requires the purchasing of _____________.
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Master Rights
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Who is the person, in music, who helps generate spotting notes, edits together the temp score, maintains documentation and is responsible for post-recording fixes on the score?
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Music Editor
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Printed 4 times into each frame of video on lines 17 & 19.
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VITC
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This static cue gives primarily Azimuth information and works best with frequencies about 1.4k.
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Interaural Intensity Difference
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After Cloth/Movements and Steps have been recorded, the next thing you record in foley is are the ____________.
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Incidentals
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To ensure the best possible speech ____________, you should edit dialogue at a level between 70 and 90dB.
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Intelligibility
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The _____________ contains little hairs of differing lengths that correspond to different frequencies.
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Basilar Membrane
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True or False: When you spot foley, it is necessary to spot each footstep individually.
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False
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Though we will keep them around for reference, in sound design we typically do not use ______________ because they do not sound large enough.
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Original Sound Effects
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_________ affiliated voice over artists get about $750 per four hour VO session for a game.
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SAG
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The most popular form of EDL is ____________.
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CMX 3600
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The foundation of backgrounds/ambiences will be constructed out of _____________________.
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Subtle Continuous Loops
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_______________ provides azimuth and zenith information and tell us whether a sound source originates in front of or behind us.
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Pinna(e) Response
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Who's responsibility is it to cut the obvious sound effects for a film?
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Hard Effects Editor
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The primary cues to perceive or simulate distance are ratio of direct to reverberant signal, amount of high frequency content and _______________ of sound source.
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Intensity
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Re-synchronizing cues that are not in time is the job of the Foley ___________.
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Editor
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When printmaster format has additional channels in the front (Li and Ri)?
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SDDS
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In a soccer video game, when your player kicks the ball at the goal, the resulting sound of the foot impacting on the ball will be ______________.
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Triggered from RAM
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An AAF file is made of ______________ and Media Data.
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MXF Data
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The ________________ will be used as a template for backgrounds and are basically overlapped ghos regions that mark where backgrounds will be placed later.
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Skeleton Tracks
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The _____________ octave can be used to improve speech intelligibility, especially when it sounds lispy or features difficult to understand consonants.
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8th
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The supervising sound editor requested that we create some custom sound effects recordings for the sound designers (to be used in addition to their field recordings). What method should we use when recording these elements?
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Wild Tracking
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Blending sound sources from Editor into more managable submixes.
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Predubbing
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When working with linear video, you need both _____________ reference and clock reference in order to have accurate synchronization.
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Positional
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Where are you likely to find actual audio on a digital re-recording stage?
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Credenza
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When the director tells you he wants the sound of a car to menacing and dark, he is describing a ______________ sound.
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Subconscious
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Much of the emotional support for a film's soundtrack comes from the ___________.
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Music
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The ADR ______________ deals with documentation during an ADR session.
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Recordist
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In psychoacoustics, the dynamic cue that depends on the reflections within the first 50-100 ms is called ________________.
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Early Echo Response
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The scientific study of the human perception of sound.
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Pyschoacoustics
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The ___________ takes, in animation voice over, are the takes the director wanted to use in the actual final version of the movie.
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Buy
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In order to make up for the 6 frame difference between film and video speed during telecine, a 2/3 or 3/2 _____________ occurs.
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Pulldown
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Who handles all of the music contracs for a film?
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Music Executive
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A _____________ mic is the most common microphone used to record Foley.
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Shotgun
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Which microphone configuration makes use of two omni mics spaced two feet apart and provides a very weak center image.
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Spaced Pair
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When creating skeletons, your scene changes should have a _____________ overlap.
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2 Frame
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What is a term for the process of programming a sound's behavior and location in the game engine?
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Wiring
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Which motion picture featured the first synchronized sound effects to picture?
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Showboat
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Term for musical passage that accompanies the reoccurrence of a character or situation.
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Leitmotif
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The first job people typically have in sound design is as the _______________ (not counting interning and running).
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Backgrounds Editor
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What is typically found on analogue channel 2 of a VHS or SVHS worktape?
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LTC
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The first step intelling the story of a picture through sound is ______________.
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Spotting
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When dialogue is panned and bounces around based on perspective, we call it the _________________.
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Ping Pong Effect
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If your X/Y microphone was giving you too much of a boost in the center of your vehicle's By's, which stereo microphone patter could you use to get smoother pans?
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ORTF
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_______________ Sound Effects are contained on the PFX track.
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Production
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When connected your machines for working with linear video, which Pro Tools box will receive the incoming timecode and reference and generates timecode as well?
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Sync I/O
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This is a large acoustically treated room with cement floors built specifically for recording sound effects to picture.
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Foley Stage
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Conceptualizing sounds often requires the use of ___________________, whereby a sound is derived as a result of visual association.
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Analogous Visualization
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The ________________ is the head of the Re-Recording stage and takes directions directly from the Director; He also may help mix the Foley.
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Dialogue Re-Recording Mixer
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Which printmaster codec uses sub-band coding with linear prediction and quantization and has its audio stored separate from the film on a proprietary format of CD-ROM?
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DTS
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The stapedius reflex protects against loud, _____________ sounds for a limited time.
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Sustained
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This person is responsible for making sure all parts of a score are playable, withing the instruments proper ranges and are not technically awkward.
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Orchestrator
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This printmaster format makes use of AC-3 Compression.
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Dolby SRD
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If in your backgrounds, you heard the sound of a bird chirping every 3 seconds, you are experiencing the ____________________.
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Washing Machine Effect
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The director has decided to shoot on film. As a result the fram rate will be ______ fps.
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24
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Once the dialogue has been prepared, the _____________ will not be heard during the re-recording phase, yet might be useful to keep around for reference.
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Dialogue Editor
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Two characters sharing the same space and speaking will need to have their dialogue placed on the ______________ track.
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Master
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In order to prevent an LCR sound effect from touching the center channel (and interfering with your dialogue) you could turn down the ______________ for the duration of the effect.
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Center Percentage
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After a film has been converted to video, an _______________ will happen to make sure the audio can be synchronized to the new video footage.
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Audio Pulldown
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Which Ambience Perspective contains vague sounds that establish a general location?
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Background
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When Ben Burtt used the sounds of irritated chickens to be the sounds of hundreds of rats in "The Last Crusade," he was utilizing the sound design concept of ________________.
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Sounds Without Visual Congruence
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The Panned Dialogue predub consists of _______________.
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Futz
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Which part of the ear vibrates according to acoustic eneragy?
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Timpanic Membrane
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Music that appears within a scene (and can be heard by the characters) is known as ______________ music.
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Incidental
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What parameter of a 5.1 pan window is used to bleed the signal into adjacent channels?
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Divergence
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What score, assembled by the Music Editor, is shown to the composer so as to communicate the style in which the director would like the music written?
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Temp Score
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The process of converting film to video is known as _____________.
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Telecine
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_____________ is an attribute of audiotory sensation by which sounds can be ordered on a musical scale.
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Pitch
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The composer should be able to communicate in ___________ terms with the director, rather than musical terms.
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Dramatic
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It is necessary to sculpt and shape layers being used in a sound design. Otherwise, you risk making the sound _____________.
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Muddy
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When working with linear video, once you have everything connected appropriately you should set your clock source to _______________.
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Video Reference
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Consolidate Selected (Mac)
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Shift + Option + 3
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Due to their understanding of the props they will be recording, the foley artist will choose the ___________ for the session.
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Mics
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Where do we get clues as to the backgrounds or ambiences needed for a scene when reading a screenplay?
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Scene Headers
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Human beings perceive intensity as _____________.
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Loudness
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The most _____________ frequencies of the human voice fall in the range of 1k - 3.1k.
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Prominent
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We see a telephone on screen. It begins ringing. This sound effect is an example of a ______________ sound.
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Conscious
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This is sometimes referred to as "Speed" or "Rate".
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Clock
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What software is the most popular for game sound based on its advanced batchlist features?
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Sound Forge
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What is a responsibility of the foley recordist?
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Documentation
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When you return to the studio after field recording, you will prepare your files for the _____________ process by trimming ambiences, removing artifacts and fading sound effects with sharm transients.
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Archival
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The process of conforming a score to the picture after the score has already been recorded, in the case that the picture changes, is known as _______________.
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Score Editing
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Which variety of Mag Stock will typically contain the production audio from the set when the movie is being cut on film?
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Mag Stripe
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Once you have your sound effect in sync, you can timestamp the region by pressing the quick key combination ______________ (Mac).
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Shift + Command + M
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The quick key combination for repeat paste to fill selection is ______________ (Mac).
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Option + Command + V
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In command focus mode, you can press ______________ to move a selection down to the track below its current position.
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The _____________ contains important details about a game's style, gameplay and potentially clues about the sorts of audio you will need to create for the game.
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Design Document
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If you wanted to reduce the "nasal" quality of a line of dialogue, which octave could you adjust?
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6th
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Which channels are small sound effects fed to for a Predub in Dolby SR-D?
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LCR
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Sometimes a director will site a _______________ to help direct the composer into creating a certain variety of music for the soundtrack.
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Classical Reference
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The digital assistant phases up the dialogue by maching the recorded takes with their timecodes noted on the _____________.
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EDL
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The shorter the sound, the _________ the sound needs to be.
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Louder
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Which octave is said to give a tinny sound?
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7th Octave
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Sub band coding with linear production.
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DTS
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