From what menu do you open and close a Final Cut Express project?
2.
If the playhead in the Timeline is still, you may see moving images in the Canvas. True or false?
3.
What is the white horizontal bar directly beneath the Canvas image area?
4.
What do pressing the Home or End keys do?
5.
Timecode is a 6-digit number represent hours, minutes, and seconds. True or false?
6.
How can you use the J, K, and L keys to play a sequence?
7.
What does clicking a green Visible or Audible control in the Timeline track control area do?
8.
What does clicking a video or audio source control do?
9.
How can you change the height of the Timeline tracks?
10.
How can you make an entire sequence fit in the Timeline window?
11.
How can you tell how long the current sequence is?
Answers
1.
The File menu.
2.
False.
3.
The scrubber bar.
4.
Pressing the Home key moves the playhead to the beginning of the sequence; pressing the End key moves the playhead to the end of the sequence.
5.
False. Timecode is an 8-digit number representing hours, minutes, seconds, and frames.
6.
Press L to play forward, J to play backward, and K to stop playing. Press L or J repeatedly to ramp up speed forward or backward.
7.
It turns off that track so you don't see or hear it.
8.
It connects or disconnects a source track to a destination track.
9.
By clicking the Timeline Track Height control in the Timeline, by pressing Shift-T repeatedly, or by choosing Sequence > Settings and choosing an option from the Track Size pop-up menu.
10.
Click in the Timeline and press Shift-Z.
11.
Look at the Canvas Duration field.
Keyboard Shortcuts
L
Plays the sequence forward
K
Stops playing
J
Plays the sequence backward
Home
Moves the playhead to the beginning of the sequence
End
Moves the playhead to the end of the sequence
Shift-T
Cycles through the different track heights
Cmd-0 (zero)
Brings up the Sequence Settings window
Shift-Z
Places the entire sequence in the Timeline view
Z
Selects the Zoom In tool to zoom into the sequence
Option-Z
Converts the Zoom In tool to the Zoom Out tool to shrink the view
H
Selects the Hand tool
Up arrow
Moves the playhead backward to the first frame of the previous clip in the Timeline
Down arrow
Moves the playhead forward to the first frame of the next clip in the Timeline
Left arrow
Moves one frame to the left
Right arrow
Moves one frame to the right
Option-+ (plus)
In the Timeline, zooms in at the playhead location.
Option- (minus)
In the Timeline, zooms out at the playhead location.
