Specifications

ptg
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Basic Editing
Practice Your Skills
If you edited the string of interview selects from the previous exercise, you
should use that sequence (“Transformation Scene Rough Cut”) in this sec-
tion. If you did not complete the previous exercise, you should just quickly
splice the Tony interview (1) clip into the Timeline, marking an IN and an
OUT around the following sound bite:
Tony interview (1):
“You have the mentor and the apprentice: Drosselmeyer and Mini-meyer.
And that’s one of the themes in the story... is like, you know, the apprentice
is trying to learn how to become a magician. And, uh, he’s not...he makes
mistakes all the time. And towards the end, he’s able to start...he can do
some of the tricks himself. He’s all of a sudden, you know, he’s becoming
a bit of a master himself.”
Follow these steps:
1. Cut out some of the stumbles and other unwanted footage from this string
of shots. For example, in Tony’s interview, he rephrases a few times. To
tighten this up, you will remove the unwanted frames using Extract.
After Tony says, “learn how to become a magician,” he says, “and, uh,
he’s not” before he completes his thought by saying, “he makes mis-
takes all the time.”
Make sure all tracks (V1, A1, and A2) are selected. Mark an IN at the
beginning of this rephrase and an OUT at the end of this rephrase.
2. Press the X key to extract this section.
3. If you are working from the entire sequence of shots, proceed through
the rest of this sequence to identify other areas that need to be
cleaned up because of stumbles or rephrases. For example, later in
Tony’s c lip, he says, “and towar ds t he e nd” a nd t hen he stumbles when
he says, “umm, he’s able to start.” Then, he rephrases with “he can do
some of the tricks himself.” You will want to extract that middle section.
Don’t worry about the resulting jump cuts in your footage, you’ll fix
them next.
Now it’s time to intercut some supplemental video footage (often
referred to as B-roll or cutaways) with the interview segments—both to
add visual information and to cover up the jump cuts that resulted from
the extractions you just performed. To do this, you will perform three-
point edits using an overwrite.
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