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