Photographic software can be used to edit which type of graphic often used in television production?

• A. Title slides
• B. Lower thirds
• C. Fly-ins
• D. Music cues

Answer: (C)

Photographic software is used to prepare and refine still image assets that will be used inside video. A fly-in is a graphic element that enters the screen from off the edge and often relies on a prepared image asset. By using photo-editing software, you can adjust the artwork’s color, contrast, sharpness, and edges, and export it with transparency for compositing in a video editor so it can smoothly animate into view as a fly-in. The music cue is audio, not a visual graphic, and title slides or lower thirds are also visual graphics but are typically handled with layout or motion graphics tools; the specific use of photographic editing to create a ready-to-animate entry makes fly-ins the best fit.