Video Editing Worksheet: Sound and Music
Creator's tip (Voice on top): Music under the voice; mic close; quiet room; check with headphones. Trim = song length − video length; plays = video length ÷ loop length. Beats = bpm × seconds ÷ 60; fade-out start = video length − fade length.
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- 1.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to record in a quiet room? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 2.🎵 A music loop is 40 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 240-second video?
- 3.🎵 The music fades out over the last 7 seconds of an 89-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 4.🎵 Slowly lowering the music at the end is called a … (a) close-up (b) zoom (c) fade-out (d) jump cut
- 5.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to film next to a busy road? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 6.🎵 A song is 71 seconds long but your video is 34 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 7.True or false: to skip the sound check is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 8.True or false: to talk far from the mic is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 9.🎵 Using a popular song in your video without permission can … (a) improve the mic (b) make it legal (c) add more pixels (d) break copyright rules
- 10.🎵 A song is 54 seconds long but your video is 29 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 11.🎵 A song has 90 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 10 seconds?
- 12.True or false: to do a short sound test is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 13.True or false: to use any popular song is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 14.🎵 Calm, slow music makes a scene feel … (a) angry (b) rushed (c) peaceful (d) scary
- 15.True or false: to put the mic close is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 16.🎵 A song has 150 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 12 seconds?
- 17.🎵 Where should a microphone be for clear speech? (a) inside a bag (b) close to the speaker (c) across the room (d) behind a wall
- 18.🎵 A song has 90 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 24 seconds?
- 19.🎵 A song is 75 seconds long but your video is 54 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 20.🎵 A song has 90 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 22 seconds?
- 21.True or false: to use any popular song is a poor sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 22.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to skip the sound check? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 23.True or false: to leave a fan whirring is a good sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 24.True or false: to check with headphones is a good sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 25.🎵 A song has 120 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 11 seconds?
- 26.🎵 The music fades out over the last 3 seconds of an 80-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 27.🎵 A song has 90 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 4 seconds?
- 28.🎵 Sounds added in editing, like a door slam, are called … (a) pixels (b) subtitles (c) sound effects (d) keyframes
- 29.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to use any popular song? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 30.🎵 The music fades out over the last 7 seconds of a 33-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 31.🎵 The music fades out over the last 8 seconds of a 93-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 32.🎵 A music loop is 29 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 58-second video?
- 33.🎵 When someone talks over music, the music should be … (a) louder than the voice (b) at full volume (c) switched on and off (d) quieter than the voice
- 34.🎵 The music fades out over the last 2 seconds of a 48-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 35.True or false: to credit the music you use is a good sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 36.True or false: to record in a quiet room is a poor sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 37.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to check with headphones? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 38.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to let music drown voices? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 39.🎵 A song has 60 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 8 seconds?
- 40.🎵 A song is 125 seconds long but your video is 65 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
Answer key
- good habit
- 6
- 82
- fade-out
- poor habit
- 37
- False
- False
- break copyright rules
- 25
- 15
- True
- False
- peaceful
- True
- 30
- close to the speaker
- 36
- 21
- 33
- True
- poor habit
- False
- True
- 22
- 77
- 6
- sound effects
- poor habit
- 26
- 85
- 2
- quieter than the voice
- 46
- True
- False
- good habit
- poor habit
- 8
- 60
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