Communications Analyzing a Court Decision Questions

Bowie State UniversityComm. 331.001
Home Work Assignment #7
Name_______________________________
I. Part One:
A. Required Viewing on You Tube: Final Cut Pro X Essentials – Editing Tools
Source: Video Maker; TRT: 11:04
B. Questions:
1. What is the default tool in the Tool Box?
2. How do you enable the Ripple Edit mode?
3. What is the keyboard shortcut for the Select Tool?
4. What would be the keyboard shortcut to enable the Trim Mode?
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5. What does the Position Key do?
6. What does the Range Selection tool do?
7. What tool do you use to split a clip into halfs?
8. Will the Blade Tool work if its applied to two different clips?
9. What does the Append Edit command do?
10. The Insert Edit command does what?
11. What does an Overwrite Edit do?
12. What does the keyboard shortcut Shift – D do?
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13. How do you initiate a Replace Edit?
14. How do you enable the Precision Editor?
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Bowie State University
Comm. 331.000
Home Work Assignment #6
Name_______________________________
I. Part One:
A. Required viewing on You Tube: How to Operate the Audio Board (Main Studios) MNN
Basic Studio; Author: MNN NYC;
TRT: 4:39
B. Questions:
1. The audio board featured in the tutorial has how many input channels?
2. When setting up the audio board, what is the first thing you want to do?
3. What is the purpose of setting tone on the audio board?
4. After you have turned the tone on, to what level do you bring the Stereo Master
Slider?
5. What are the two primary steps to setting up an audio input.
6. Can you determine the actual volume by how it sounds coming out of the speaker?
7. What should the levels be on the VU meters?
8. What is the purpose of the Trim Knobs?
9. Where are the Trim Knobs usually located?
10. Using the face of a clock as a reference, what should be the adjustment range
for a Trim Knob?
II. Part Two
A. Required viewing on You Tube: PCM – Analog to Digital Conversion
Author: Sunny Classroom; TRT: 8:56
B. Questions:
1. What are the three steps in Pulse Code Modulation?
2. What is sampling?
3. What are samples?
4. The process of sampling is also called?
5. The number of samples per second is called what?
6. What “term” do we use to measure sample rate?
7. “1KHz” is how many samples per second?
8. What is the sample rate for a normal telephone call?
9. What is the sample rate for an audio CD or MP3?
10. What is a “real number”?
11. What is “bit depth”?
12. What are some of the most common bit depths in analog to digital conversion?
13. What is the “quantizing process”?
14. Sampling converts a time-varying signal into what?
Bowie State University
Comm. 331.000
Home Work Assignment #9
Name:_________________________
Part I.
A. Required Viewing on You Tube: Final Cut Pro X Essentials – Audio
Source: Videomaker; TRT: 15:35
Part II.
A. Questions:
1. What is the first thing you need to do to adjust your audio levels?
2. As a whole, your audio levels should never go above what?
3. As a rule, your audio levels should be around what level?
4. In the video sequence featured in the tutorial, what is the primary
audio source?
5. What keyboard shortcut do you use to open the Audio Inspector?
6. How do you enable or disable a command?
7. How can you change your audio level by (+) or (-) one decibel, without
using your mouse or the audio inspector?
8. How do you enable Audio Looping?
9. What are key frames?
10. How do you add a key frame?
Bowie State University
Comm. 331.000
Home Work # 10
Name:_______________________
Part I.
A. Required viewing on You Tube: Final Cut Pro X Essentials- Transitions
Source: Videomaker; TRT: 9:33
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B. Questions:
1. What is the protocol for accessing the Transition Browser by clicking on the
Windows Menu?
2. How do you apply the default transition to the timeline?
3. How do you access the Playback Tab?
4. If you double click on the transition area, what gets enabled?
5. What are handles?
Part II.
A. Required viewing on You Tube: Final Cut Pro Essentials – Titles and Graphics:
Source: Videomaker; TRT: 14:27
B. Questions:
1. How do you activate Title and Action Safe?
2. A graphic should be displayed within which safe zone?
3. To mark the area on your timeline where you want to display the graphic,
you should use what keyboard shortcuts?
4. All the controls for the Title Tool are located where?
5. In order to give your text file more depth on the screen, you would do what?
6. How would you turn off the 3D option?
7. In the featured tutorial, the green arrow controls the vertical space,
which is the _______ space?
Bowie State University
Comm. 331.001
Home Work Assignment #8
I. Part One:
Name:_____________________
A. Required Viewing on You Tube: Codecs and Containers – The Wonderful World
Video Files
Author: Florian Fahrenberger; TRT: 8:46
B. Questions:
1. How many parts does a basic video file consist of?
2. What are the four Parts?
3. Which company developed the .mov container?
4. The .mov container can be played back using what application?
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5. AVCHD is the only container format that stores files in a _______ structure.
6. Mp4 is the one container that supports the most suitable compression format,
which is what?
7. Give two platforms an mp4 file can be played back on?
8. What does Codec mean?
9. How many gigabytes of uncompressed, full HD video could be stored
in one hour?
10. What are the most common, uncompressed audio formats?
11. The most important distinction has to be made between which two types
of codecs?
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12. Intraframe editing is best, for what type of editing?
13. Interframe Codecs are best, for what type of media activity?
14. What are the two most common Intraframe Codecs?
15. What are the most common Interframe Codecs?
16. Overall, what is the best codec to distribute media files currently?
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Analyzing a Court Decision
Student’s Name: _____________________________
Date: ______________________________________
Title of Citation (5 points):
Level or Type of Court (5 points):
Facts (20 points):
Issue (10 Points):
Holding (25 Points):
Significance (25 points):
References (In APA Format 10 points):