MM240 Final Exam Study Guide

• Final Cut Pro
  • Manipulating Audio in FCP (nodes, etc)
  • Linking/Un-linking Tracks
  • Nesting Sequences
  • Importing Photoshop files
  • Creating Titles
  • Applying Filters
  • Exporting DV QuickTime movies
• Compression
  • term: codec
  • Temporal (inter-frame) vs Spatial (intra-frame) Compression
  • Lossless vs Lossy Compression
  • Production codecs vs. Distribution codecs
  • Single pass vs. 2-pass/VBR encoding
  • Know which video codec is used on VideoCDs (VCD), and DVDs
  • Advantages, disadvantages, and applications of the following codecs:
    • CinePak
    • Sorenson 2 + 3
    • Animation
    • DV
    • MPEG-1
    • MPEG-2
    • MPEG-4
• Snapz Pro
  • Issues relating to capturing from the screen
  • How to start and stop Snapz Pro
• The Adobe DV Primer (pages 1 - 18)
  • Frame rates of video and film formats (and the process of converting between them)
  • Know the differences between interlaced and non-interlaced (progressive) video
  • Video specs for DV (resolution, codec, color sampling, data rate, etc)
• Everything from the midterm