Zettl’s VideoLab 4.0 DVD – Editing

Name: ______

Answer the following questions while viewing Zettl’s Video Lab Editing segments.

  1. A post-production editor can give the recorded material new ______all together. And give the event a higher or lower ______than it actually had.
  2. At the beginning of your editing session, watch each presentation once for ______, then repeat it several times watching for ______aspects.
  3. Editing is a mysterious and powerful ______.
  4. The more skillful you are, the less ______your craft. If the job is done properly, the viewer will be engrossed in the video program and not even ______the cuts, transitions, and continuity.
  5. Editors are more concerned with performing ______editing.
  6. The real point of editing is to select ______of an event and put them together to tell a good ______.
  7. ______is the simplest form of editing.
  8. Television news is the most drastic example of ______.
  9. Concentrate only on what you need to ______and ______instead of what you have available.
  10. If you hear someone say “Don’t worry we can fix it in ______.” Look out! You can spend a lot of ______and ______trying to fix production mistakes after the fact.
  11. Paying close attention to pre-production and production details will avoid most ______editing.
  12. To stay oriented in the on-screen world, the viewer establishes a ______of where things are on and off-screen.
  13. Be sure a change in framing is different enough that you don’t end up with a ______cut.
  14. In a jump cut, if the ______or person moves just a little bit from shot 1 to shot 2, the cut seems to ______the person into the new position.
  15. Your editing will be more ______and ______if you cut on an action.
  16. ______means adjusting the ______points and ______points of a video clip.
  17. Without ______you’ll have noticeable holes in the audio.
  18. Identify each take with a ______slate.
  19. Have someone keep an accurate ______.
  20. A good camera operator will shoot ______to provide ______in editing.
  21. A cutaway is a ______shot that is directly related to the ______.
  22. When shooting cutaways, make sure they are at least ______seconds long.
  23. A ______is a retake that doesn’t start from the beginning.
  24. Virtually every television production is ______, either live with a ______or during ______-production.
  25. All VTR’s (video tape recorders) use separate tracks to record the ______and ______as well as control data.
  26. Each ______of video contains ______frames.
  27. SMTPE ______is an ______signal that reliably encodes increments of hours, minutes, seconds and frames of timecode tracks.
  28. A video leader starts with 30 to 60 seconds of ______and zero VU ______.
  29. A great time saving device for the editor is an audio ______of what was ______in each scene.
  30. Non-linear editing gets its name because each ______can be accessed at ______.
  31. Pencil and Paper editing is when you select the shots and write down the in and out point timecode number on a regular VTR log form….what you have is a tentative EDL or ______.