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Fine-Tuning the Sequence
Practice Your Skills
For this exercise, you’re going to depart from Urban Nutcracker to explore
a dialogue-intensive scene from Pearl, a film based on the true story of
America’s youngest aviator, Pearl Carter.
This sequence needs quite a bit of work fixing the timing and pacing, and
you will achieve this by trimming. (As you trim, remember to make it easier
on yourself by zooming in to each transition. Also, display the audio sample
plot in the Timeline if necessary.)
1. From the DVD provided with this book, load Pearl Parlor Scene
SCRIPT. You will use the script to match against the sequence.
2. Open the _Sequences Chap 4 bin, and load the Pearl Parlor Scene
Trimming sequence into the Timeline.
3. Place the position indicator at the first edit point, between the first and
second shots (01:00:11:05).
4. Enter Trim mode by lassoing the transition through all three tracks—V1,
A1, and A2.
5. Press the space bar to loop the playback around this transition and get
a feel for the way it plays. Press the space bar again to stop playing
the loop.
Yo u s hou ld no ti c e t hat so me ext ra unw an ted fr ame s e xi st a t t he t a il o f
the A-side clip. Therefore, you need to shorten the A-side.
6. Click the A-side monitor to enter A-side single-roller trim.
7. Trim to the left (earlier) until you cut out the unnecessary frames, and stop
cleanly at the end of George Sr.’s “She’s a bit young, yet, Wiley” line.
Yo u c an u se an y t ri m met ho d t ha t you le ar ne d in t hi s ch ap t er, inc lu di n g
the following:
 Clicking the Trim buttons
 Clicking and dragging rollers
 Entering a numeric value in the numeric keypad
 Using J-K-L trim
8. When you’ve completed the trim, loop the playback again to see how
it works. Tweak the trim if necessary. (You should have trimmed away
about 40 frames from the A-side.)
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