Adobe Premiere Pro LinkedIn Skill Assessments: The Ultimate Guide to Questions & Answers for Success

Darsh Jariwala

Last updated on Nov 3, 2024 13 min read

Adobe Premiere Pro

Q1. You open a nested sequence to trim the length of a clip. You make the total duration of the clips longer. What happens to the duration of the nest in the main sequence?

Nothing, the nest duration remains the same in the original sequence.
The duration of the nest changes and an overwrite edit pushes the remaining clips to make room.
The clips change speed to match the duration of the nest.
The duration of the nest changes and a ripple edit pushes the remaining clips to make room.

Q2. What is a good reason to use a nested sequence?

Nesting improves playback performance.
Nesting makes it easier to reduce clutter in the Project panel, saving time and potentially project budget.
Nesting allows a single effect to be applied to everything that is inside the nest, like a color correction or a video limiter.
Nesting helps Adobe Premiere Pro render faster.

Q3. What happens on your hard drive when you create a subclip?

Nothing, since a subclip does not create a new media file on your hard drive.
A pointer file is created on your hard drive.
A new master clip is created on your hard drive and added to the project.
A new media file is created next to the original media.

Q4. Which statement is false regarding exporting media from Adobe Premiere Pro?

Adobe Premiere can directly export files.
You can encode sequences into one or more formats with Adobe Media Encoder.
While using Adobe Media Encoder, you can keep working on the same sequence in Adobe Premiere Pro.
When you click Export, Adobe Premiere Pro will encode the file in the background and let you continue editing.

Q5. While working in Premiere Pro, how can you quickly create a new After Effects composition with settings that match the current sequence?

Select File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition.
Import a project from After Effects and choose Match project size when importing.
Select File > Adobe Dynamic Link > New After Effects Composition.
Switch to After Effects and manually set up the project for accuracy.

Q6. Which is NOT a tag available in the Essential Sound panel?

Narration
SFX
Ambience
Music

Q7. HSL secondary color correction allows you to adjust which of the following? (Select three items.)

A. Clarity
B. Contrast
C. Saturation
D. Temperature
E. Blur

B, C, D
A, B, C
B, D, E
A, C, E

Q8. What is the only panel in which the Rate Stretch tool can modify a clip?

Program Monitor panel
Source Monitor panel
Timeline panel
Media Browser panel

Q9. What can you do to make the shape layer automatically adjust its size as the text layer changes?

Select the Mask with Shape option.
Select Responsive Design and Pin To the text layer.
Select Responsive Design and Pin To the Video Frame.
Use the Align and Transform controls.

Q10. In which panel do you assemble media to create a sequence?

Timeline panel
Media Browser panel
Capture panel
Source Monitor panel

Q11. Which panel allows you to modify video effects after they have been applied to a clip?

Effects panel
Timeline panel
Source Monitor panel
Effect Controls panel

Q12. Suppose your clips link to media files stored in multiple locations. You want to have the media files in a single location in their current format. Which option should you choose in the Project Manager?

Exclude Unused Clips
Consolidate and Transcode
Collect Files and Copy to New Location
Create New Trimmed Project

Q13. What is the default video transition in Adobe Premiere Pro?

film dissolve
additive dissolve
cross dissolve
impact dissolve

Q14. Which term describes the algorithm that is used to encode and decode a video file?

container
format
compressor
codec

Q15. You want to save a short portion of a longer clip for easy access. How can you do this?

In the Media Browser, mark in and out points on a clip, and then import.
Mark in and out points on the clip in the Program Monitor and select choose Clip > Make Subclip.
Mark in and out points on a clip in the Timeline panel and then drag it back into a bin.
Mark in and out points on the clip in the Source Monitor and select Clip > Make Subclip.

Q16. What adjustment can help return edge detail to video footage?

Intensity
Contrast
Sharpen
Clarity

Q17. Where can you adjust the duration of a transition?

Effects panel
Project panel
Effect Controls panel
Program Monitor panel

Q18. You are working on a new project and have been editing for two hours. What is the number of backup projects you would expect to find?

Q19. Which panel would you use to browse and import assets for maximum compatibility with Premiere Pro?

Library
Effects
Project
Media Browser

Reference

Q20. A transition is set to center aligned. What would be the result of dragging with the tool selected, to the right?

The transition would slide to the right.
You would extend only the right side of the transition.
You would perform a ripple edit and extend the duration of the first clip.
The transition would grow on both sides.

Q21. Which application does NOT support Dynamic Link?

Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Audition
Adobe After Effects

Q22. Which preference pane includes the Video Transition Default Duration and Audio Transition Default Duration?

Media
Playback
General
Timeline

Q23. If an effect has a star next to its icon, what type of effect is it?

audio
template
Transition
preset

Q24. How was this clip manipulated using a Curve adjustment?

Hue vs. Luma
Saturation vs. Saturation
Hue vs. Saturation
Luma vs. Saturation

Q25. Where is transparency data stored when compositing media?

Essential Graphics panel
Effects panel
alpha channel
assembly edit

Q26. When part of your footage is transparent, where is the transparency information stored in the file?

source monitor
alpha channel
opacity effect
alpha effect

Q27. Which option allows you to reuse previously created render files for an export?

Use Previews
Use Frame Blending
Use Maximum Render Quality
Match Sequence Settings

Q28. In the scenario shown below, you want to extend the end of the red clip in the Timeline and not change the duration of the adjacent clip. Which is the most appropriate trim choice to accomplish this?

Trim In
Trim Out
Ripple Trim In
Ripple Trim Out

Q29. Which formats does Adobe Media Encoder support? (Select three items.)

A. GIF
B. DCP
C. QuickTime
D. HEVC
E. FLV

A, B, C
A, C, E
B, C, D
B, D, E

Q30. Which video file format can you export with Adobe Media Encoder? (Select three items.)

A. AVCHD
B. HEVC
C. Animated GIF
D. MXF OP1a
E. M4A

A, B, C
A, C, E
B, C, D
B, D, E

Q31. If you have placed a GPU-accelerated effect on a clip in the Timeline and have not rendered it, what color appears at the top of your Timeline?

red
blue
yellow
green

Q32. Which statement is true about the Appearance preferences?

The default brightness is the halfway position between darker and lighter.
You can set the top bar of windows to a custom accent color.
You can adjust the intensity of the Focus Indicator to help easily identify which window is active.
You can change the highlight color.

Q33. What can you tell about this transition?

Premiere will insert white to fill the needed handles.
Premiere will insert black to fill the needed handles.
There is not enough media (handles) to cover the duration of the transition.
The transition is automatically shortened to use only the available media and the area under the diagonal lines will have no transitions applied.

Q34. Your project has several sequences that are no longer needed. How would you use the Project Manager to produce a new version of the project that excludes the unwanted sequences?

Deselect the unwanted sequences in the Sequence area.
Select Create New Trimmed Project.
Select Consolidate and Transcode.
Choose Collect Files and Copy to New Location.

Q35. You want to take a partial clip that’s used in your Timeline and send it to After Effects for additional processing using Dynamic Link. Which method best accomplishes this?

Select the clip in the Timeline and choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Import After Effects Composition.
Select the clip in the Timeline and choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > Replace with After Effects Composition.
Select the clip in the Timeline and choose File > Adobe Dynamic Link > New After Effects Composition.
Select the clip in the Timeline and choose Edit > Copy. Switch to After Effects and choose Edit > Paste.

Q36. You want to pull down the saturation in just the clouds shown below. Which Curve adjustment makes this easiest?

Hue vs. Saturation
RGB Curves
Luma vs. Saturation
Hue vs. Luma

Q37. Which is a new graphic layer type? (Select three items.)

A. Logo
B. Text
C. Rectangle
D. Circle
E. Ellipse

A, B, C
A, C, E
B, C, E
B, D, E

Q38. Which option can create a color field that automatically adjusts size as you add or subtract from a text layer?

Choose Fill from the Appearance controls.
Choose Stroke from the Appearance controls.
Choose Background from the Appearance controls.
Choose Shadow from the Appearance controls.

Q39. If you want to lighten just the darkest areas of an image, which slider should you adjust in the Lumetri effect?

Shadows
Contrast
Midtones
Blacks

Q40. Looking at the histogram below, which single adjustment slider could create this change?

Blacks
Contrast
Whites
Exposure

Q42. Which adjustment can you use to quickly convert log footage using recommended settings by a camera manufacturer?

Creative Look
Faded Film
Input LUT
Intensity

Q43. Which Audio Mixer automation mode allows automation to return to the previous state after any adjustments are made?

Touch
Latch
Write
Read

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/audio-automation-in-premiere-pro/#:~:text=Read,affects%20the%20entire%20track%20uniformly.

Q44. You want Premiere Pro to create a second instance of your media files and add a version at a draft resolution. Which option works best in the ingest settings?

Transcode
Copy and Create Proxies
Create Proxies
Copy

Q45. If you’ve imported several time-lapse sequences into your project as image sequences, which option in the Project Manager is most useful for archiving the project?

Convert Image Sequences to Clips
Convert After Effects Compositions to Clips
Include Preview Files
Consolidate and Transcode

Q46. Which option is enabled to affect the view of the audio waveforms as shown below?

Show Audio Time Units
Rectified Audio Waveform
Large Audio Waveforms
Logarithmic Keyframe Scaling

Undock Panel
Undock Frame
Maximize Panel
Maximize Frame

Q48. To quickly arrange the panels in Adobe Premiere Pro for a specific task, what do you use?

workspaces
layouts
panel presets
events

Q49. Which statement is true about adaptive audio tracks?

Input channel configuration determines channel routing
Adaptive tracks are unable to be routed to master track outputs
Channel routing is based on master track configuration
Adaptive tracks can only be routed using the Audio Mixer

Q50. When adjusting a sequence’s settings, selecting the Maximum Bit Depth in Adobe Premiere Pro for the video settings option is equivalent to which setting?

4:0:0
4:4:4
4:2:2
4:2:0

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/what-are-the-best-render-settings-for-8-bit-4-2-0-100-mbps-4k-video/td-p/10695910

Q51. If your project has elements from an AEP file inside, what should you do to ensure that the project is recognized by the Project Manager?

Choose the Convert After Effects Compositions to Clips option
Usd the Render and Replace option
Switch to After Effects first and choose the Render and Replace option
Choose Consolidate and Transcode

Q52. Which visual transition fades the end of one clip into the beginning of the next clip?

fade in
fade out
crossfade
cross dissolve

Q53. Which file formats can be imported into an Adobe Premiere Pro project? (Select three items.)

A. AI
B. JPEG
C. PSD
D. DNG
E. PDF

A, C, E
A, B, C
B, D, E
B, C, D

Q54. After importing items into your project, where do they appear?

Project panel
Program Monitor panel
Source Monitor panel
Media Browser panel

Q55. Suppose you want to darken just the sky area in the image shown. Which Curve adjustment makes this easiest?

Hue vs. Luma
Hue vs. Hue
Luma vs. Saturation
Hue vs. Saturation

Q56. Which bitrate encoding option yields the best balance of quality to file size, but takes longer to encode?

VBR, 1 Pass
VBR, 2 Pass
CBR
Use Maximum Render Quality

Q57. What is true about changing the speed of a clip that has linked audio?

The audio is pitch-shifted to sound correct.
The audio changes to match the video.
The audio is not affected.
If you use the Time Remapping tool, the audio changes at the same rate.
Q58.When exporting, Which file format creates no audio channels?
FLAC
DPX
HEVC
P2 Movie

Q59.What is true about creating dynamically linked After Effects compositions from Adobe?

Premiere Pro? (Select three Items.) A. You can media manage After Effects projects directly in Premiere Pro. B. The amount of interim render files is reduced. C. It makes color correction fast and easy. D. You can easily make changes to a clip. E. It ensures that new After Effect composition settings are correct for a Premiere Pro sequence.

B, C, D
B, D, E
A, B, C
A, C, E

Q60. How many output audio tracks can an adaptive audio track be routed to?

Q61. Which tool lets you easily reposition clips on the Timeline concerning adjacent clips?

Slide tool
Rolling Edit tool
Ripple Edit tool
Slip tool

Q62. Which memory card structure format is NOT a dedicated viewing option in the Media Browser?

Sony DSLR
Canon RAW
XDCAM-HD
Canon XF

Q63. What is NOT an option with the Remove Attributes command?

Effects
Motion
Speed
Opacity

Q64. Suppose you use font X from Adobe Fonts in your project. What happens when you open a project and font X is missing from the local machine?

A substitute is automatically chosen based on your preferences.
The font automatically activates as long as there is an internet connection.
A warning appears so you can track down the font.
Nothing occurs—the graphics appear correct and the font is only needed to edit them.

Q65. You have attached a hardware device for adjusting the color of your clips with touch. Where do you configure its preferences?

Preferences > Capture
Preferences > Audio Hardware
Preferences > Device Control
Preferences > Control Surface

Q66. When importing an XML file, what happens to transitions that Adobe Premiere Pro determines aren’t compatible?

The transitions are deleted.
The transitions are turned into Dip to Color transitions.
The import fails.
The transitions are turned into cross dissolves.

Q67. What would happen if you dropped a transition onto this edit point?

You would get an End at Cut alignment.
You would get a Start at Cut alignment.
The clip is trimmed and a Center at Cut transition is applied.
You would get a one-frame transition.

Q68. Which export format supports the inclusion of an alpha channel?

MOV
MP4
MPEG 2 for DVD
MXF OP1a

Q69. Which user interface item identifies the current frame in the Program Monitor?

frame ruler
indicator
playhead
navigator

###Q70. When working on a complex project in Adobe Premiere Pro, you want to make sure you have a clean workspace and reduce any clutter. What feature in Premiere Pro can help you organize your workspace and manage your media efficiently?

Nested Sequences
Project Media Bins
Multi-Camera Editing
Workspaces

Q71. In Adobe Premiere Pro, what is the purpose of the “Warp Stabilizer” effect, and when is it commonly used?

To add cinematic color grading to clips.
To adjust the audio pitch and speed.
To stabilize shaky or jittery video footage.
To create animated text and graphics.

Adobe Premiere Pro LinkedIn Skill Assessments: The Ultimate Guide to Questions & Answers for Success