BrainBuffet Premiere Pro

File Address

Shows you where you have saved your Premiere Pro File.

Menu Bar

Contains drop-down menus.

Workspace Bar

Contains buttons to display and edit your workspace.

Source Monitor

Where you preview

and trim your clips during

the rough cut process.

Project Panel

Where you import and organize all your media, titles, and sequences.

Tool Bar

Where you access the tools.

Sequence Panel

Where you will build your video sequences.

File management is important so where should you save your Premiere Pro project file?

On the computer's hard drive in the same folder as your media.

What button in the "New Project" dialog box will allow you to select the location to save your Premiere Pro project file?

Browse

Where can you change the setting for how Premiere Pro deals with what it should do during start up (either "show start screen" or "open most recent")?

PC : Edit/Preferences

Mac : Premiere Pro/Preferences

What panel is used to control or adjust effects and keyframe your effects or visual elements?

Effect control

Describe 2 ways you can create a new sequence that will match the resolution/frame rate of your media?

1)Right click on a video clip in your Project Panel and select "New Sequence From Clip"

2)Drag and drop a clip from the Project Panel or Source Monitor onto a blank sequence.

What button will move a clip from the Source Monitor onto the timeline at the play head/CTI and move the rest of the media down on the timeline?

Insert

What do you call a title that moves horizontally across the screen?

Crawling Text

What do you call a title that moves vertically across the screen?

Rolling Text

How do you apply a transition between clips on the timeline?

Open the Effect Panel, Open the Video Transitions folder, Open a transition type folder, Drag and drop the transition you want onto the cut point between 2 clips on the timeline

Add Marker

Add a marker to the clip

Drag Video Only

Allows you to drag just the video from the source monitor onto the timeline.

Settings

Will allow you to control the settings for this panel.

Insert

Used to add the clip from the source monitor onto the timeline at the current time indicator.

Drag Audio Only

Allows you to drag just the audio from the source monitor onto the timeline.

Overwrite

Used to add the clip from the source monitor onto the timeline at the current time indicator. The Overwrite button will add the video and replace any video on the timeline.

Go to Out

Will jump the current time indicator to the end of the timeline.

Mark Out

Used to set an Out point on the timeline.

Button Editor

Used to customize the buttons in this panel. You can add or subtract buttons to fit your needs.

Export Frame

Will allow you to export a still image from anywhere on your timeline.

Step one frame back

Used to set an In point on the timeline.

Format

A drop-down menu that will let you select from a wide variety of audio and video formats.

Export Video/Audio Checkboxes

These check boxes make it quick and easy to export just one or the other.

Source Range

A drop-down menu that will allow you to select how much of the timeline you want to export.

Step back one frame

Allows you to move back on frame.

Mark In

Used to set an In point on the timeline.

Lift/Extract

Copies the video to the clipboard so you can paste it in another location.

Play

Will play the video.

Toggle Track Output

Hides and shows each video track just like layers in Photoshop.

Mute

Will mute or turn off the sound on individual audio tracks.

Current Time Indicator (CTI)

Shows the current location on the timeline that is being played back.

Playhead Position

Indicates the time location of the CTI.

Time Ruler

Indicates the time location of the CTI within the timeline.

Position

Adjust the position of a graphic element.

Scale

Used to change the scale of an object.

Opacity

Used to adjust the transparency of an object.

Font Drop Down

A drop down menu used to select and filter type faces (Fonts).

Tracking (text)

Used to uniformly adjust the horizontal space between a range of character.

Kerning

Used to adjust the spacing between characters in a proportional font.

Leading

Used to uniformly adjust the vertical space between lines of text.

Fill

Used to change the fill color of an object.

White Balance

Allow you to adjust the temperature and tint of the white balance of an image.

Allow you to adjust the tone (lightness or darkness) of an image.

Look

Allows you to easily apply complex Lumetri looks.

Tone

Allow you to adjust other parameters like vibrance and saturation.

What panel is used to control or adjust effects and add keyframe your effects of visual elements?

Effects Controls

What is the term for the process of combining a bunch of clips into a new sequence and then placing this into another sequence?

Nesting

What import option should you choose when you want to import a Photoshop file and create a sequence with each of the photoshop layers as individual tracks?

Import as: Sequence

What is the effect used to chroma key out a specific color?

Ultra Key

What is a quick way to hide parts of a video clip?

Opacity Mask

What can you use to sync a couple clips?

Unnamed Markers

What is a fun way to blend a couple of clips together?

Blend Modes

What effect will allow you to show video through a text layer?

Track Matte

What panel can you use to generate volume keyframes based on clips being labeled Music or Dialog?

Audio Panel

Allows you to select and deselect individual layers to merge when importing a Photoshop File?

Merge Layers

What button in the project panel allows you to arrange thumbnails of your clips without being locked into the grid?

Freeform view

What are at least 2 ways to create a custom sequence?

1)File/New Adjustment, New Item button, Adjustment layer

2)Right click in the project panel New/Adjustment Layer

How do you change the duration of a marker?

Click and drag on the numbers next to "duration"

What file type can contain an alpha channel that makes it easy to use as a track matte?

.png

Why is "Adjustment Layer" grayed out in the File/New menu sometimes?

You must select the project panel first

What effect will allow you to create a quick letterbox effect?

Crop

What button do you press to create your first keyframe and turn on keyframing for opacity?

Stopwatch

Why is it important to include subtitles or captions in videos?

Makes your videos more accessible

Merge All Layers

Will merge all layers into one.

Merged Layers

Allows you to select and deselect specific layers into one media item.

Individual Layer

Allows you to select and deselect specific layers and import each layer as an individual layer.

Ambient Sound

Natural sounds recorded on location.

Foley Sound Effects

Sound effects that are added during the editing to help tell the story.

Dialog

Speaking parts between two or more characters on screen.

Voice Over

narrator or someone talking off screen

Lapel Mic

small body microphone often clips to the talents lapel, tie or collar.

Shotgun Mic

A highly directional mic for picking up sounds from a relatively great distance attached to a boom pole.

Hand Held Mic

A mic that is designed to be held in the hand

Three Point Lighting

a common lighting technique that uses three lighting instruments for each person or object photographed: a key light, a fill light, and a back light

Key Light

The primary light source illuminating the subject.

Fill Light

the light that fills shadows, aimed opposite a key light

Beck/Hair Light

light that is behind subject used to create a rim around the head

Cookie

a foam core board with holes cut out to create a splash of light and shadow on the background

Long Shot

typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings.

Medium Shot

typically shows part of the subject in more detail

Close Up

placed at a distance that shows the subject entire face

Over the Shoulder

shot in a dialog scene when one subject is photographed in medium close with some portion of another subject occupying some part of the foreground

POV

the perspective from which a story is told

Rule of Thirds

the strategy of splitting your image into three sections vertically and horizontally so you have a clear foreground, middle ground, and background

Low Angle

a camera angle that shows the subject from below; camera is angled up towards the subject; makes your subject appear larger and more powerful

High Angle

a camera angle that shows the subject from above; camera is angled down towards the subject; makes your subject appear smaller and weaker

Worms Eye

when the camera is placed on the ground and the foreground is filled with the ground.

Pan

moving the camera side to side

Tilt

moving the camera up and down

Tracking (shot)

any shot where the camera moves alongside the object it's recording

Cutaway

a shot that interrupts a continuous action, "cutting away" to another image or action, often to abridge time

Coverage

the amount of footage shot and different camera angles used to capture a scene

Script Writing

written description of the video that includes shot information, action elements, dialogue, and transitional elements

Storyboard

a sequence of drawings, typically with some directions and dialogue, representing the shots planned for a movie or television production.