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.🎵 Where should a microphone be for clear speech? (a) close to the speaker (b) across the room (c) behind a wall (d) inside a bag
- 2.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to record in a quiet room? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 3.🎵 A song has 150 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 6 seconds?
- 4.🎵 A music loop is 28 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 168-second video?
- 5.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to put the mic close? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 6.True or false: to talk far from the mic is a good sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 7.🎵 A song is 96 seconds long but your video is 58 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 8.🎵 Calm, slow music makes a scene feel … (a) peaceful (b) angry (c) scary (d) rushed
- 9.🎵 Slowly lowering the music at the end is called a … (a) jump cut (b) zoom (c) fade-out (d) close-up
- 10.True or false: to credit the music you use is a poor sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 11.True or false: to let music drown voices is a poor sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 12.🎵 A song has 120 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 10 seconds?
- 13.🎵 A music loop is 15 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 30-second video?
- 14.🎵 A music loop is 19 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 114-second video?
- 15.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to check with headphones? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 16.🎵 Sounds added in editing, like a door slam, are called … (a) pixels (b) keyframes (c) subtitles (d) sound effects
- 17.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to leave a fan whirring? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 18.🎵 A song is 64 seconds long but your video is 58 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 19.🎵 A song is 79 seconds long but your video is 41 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 20.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to credit the music you use? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 21.🎵 A song is 86 seconds long but your video is 74 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 22.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to do a short sound test? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 23.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to use any popular song? (a) good habit (b) poor habit
- 24.🎵 A song is 107 seconds long but your video is 59 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 25.🎵 Good or poor sound habit: to film next to a busy road? (a) poor habit (b) good habit
- 26.🎵 Using a popular song in your video without permission can … (a) make it legal (b) add more pixels (c) improve the mic (d) break copyright rules
- 27.🎵 A song is 73 seconds long but your video is 54 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 28.🎵 A song is 139 seconds long but your video is 83 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 29.🎵 A song has 60 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 14 seconds?
- 30.🎵 A song is 50 seconds long but your video is 37 seconds long. How many seconds of the song must be trimmed off?
- 31.🎵 A song has 90 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 4 seconds?
- 32.🎵 A song has 60 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 15 seconds?
- 33.🎵 A music loop is 11 seconds long. How many times must it play to fill a 33-second video?
- 34.🎵 When someone talks over music, the music should be … (a) quieter than the voice (b) at full volume (c) louder than the voice (d) switched on and off
- 35.🎵 The music fades out over the last 4 seconds of a 70-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 36.🎵 The music fades out over the last 10 seconds of a 144-second video. At which second does the fade-out start?
- 37.True or false: to use any popular song is a poor sound habit. (a) False (b) True
- 38.🎵 A song has 60 beats per minute (bpm). How many beats play in 3 seconds?
- 39.True or false: to record in a quiet room is a poor sound habit. (a) True (b) False
- 40.True or false: to record in a quiet room is a good sound habit. (a) True (b) False
Answer key
- close to the speaker
- good habit
- 15
- 6
- good habit
- False
- 38
- peaceful
- fade-out
- False
- True
- 20
- 2
- 6
- good habit
- sound effects
- poor habit
- 6
- 38
- good habit
- 12
- good habit
- poor habit
- 48
- poor habit
- break copyright rules
- 19
- 56
- 14
- 13
- 6
- 15
- 3
- quieter than the voice
- 66
- 134
- True
- 3
- False
- True
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