- Reference 4.1 Understanding a Project
- Exercise 4.1.1 Creating a Project
- Reference 4.2 Defining the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.1 Appending the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.2.2 Rearranging Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.3 Modifying Clips in the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.3.1 Performing Insert Edits
- Exercise 4.3.2 Rippling the Primary Storyline
- Reference 4.4 Timing the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.4.1 Inserting a Gap Clip
- Exercise 4.4.2 Blading and Deleting
- Exercise 4.4.3 Joining a Through Edit
- Exercise 4.4.4 Refining Some Sound Bite Edits
- Reference 4.5 Editing Above the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.5.1 Adding and Trimming Connected B-roll
- Exercise 4.5.2 Understanding Connected Clip Sync and Trimming Behaviors
- Reference 4.6 Creating a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.1 Converting Connected Clips into a Connected Storyline
- Exercise 4.6.2 Appending Clips to a Connected Storyline
- Reference 4.7 Editing Below the Primary Storyline
- Exercise 4.7.1 Connecting a Music Clip
- Reference 4.8 Finessing the Rough Cut
- Exercise 4.8.1 Adjusting the Edits
- Exercise 4.8.2 Adjusting Clip Volume Levels
- Exercise 4.8.3 Connecting Two Additional B-Roll Clips
- Exercise 4.8.4 Refining Edits Using Cross Dissolves and Fade Handles
- Reference 4.9 Sharing Your Progress
- Exercise 4.9.1 Sharing an iOS-Compatible File
- Lesson Review
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Exercise 4.4.2 Blading and Deleting
The Blade tool allows you to quickly break a clip into smaller sections to be moved elsewhere or completely removed from your story. In the first instance of MVI_1043, some pauses in Mitch’s interview can be removed to tighten the edit.
Play the project, and locate the point at which Mitch says, “And filming at the same time, (breath) uhhm,” in the first MVI_1043. This occurs about four seconds into the clip.
Cue the playhead after the breath and before the “uhhm” at timecode 00:00:28:16.
You will blade the clip here to divide it into two segments. You will then blade the clip again after the “uhhm” to separate this sound from the good content that occurs before and after it.
From the Tools pop-up menu, choose the Blade tool, or press B.
With snapping turned on, move the Blade tool over the MVI_1043 clip and toward the playhead until it snaps to the playhead.
With the Blade tool snapped to the playhead, click to segment the clip at this frame.
You can choose the Blade tool while still using the Select tool. Let’s switch to the Select tool to blade on the other side of the “uhhm.”
Press A to choose the Select tool.
A keyboard shortcut activates the Select tool’s built-in blade. The blade cuts through the clip at the skimmer or playhead. For precision, you’ll advance the playhead, then activate the Select tool’s blade command.
Press the Right Arrow key—and the Left Arrow key, if necessary—to advance the playhead to after the “uhhm” and just as Mitch is starting the word “you’re” at timecode 00:00:29:13.
Without moving the mouse, press Command-B to blade the clip at the playhead.
The single clip is now three segments. You need to remove the middle segment.
Remember, there are two types of clip deletion. Let’s use both to see the difference between them.
Select the middle clip segment, and press Shift-Delete.
The clip segment is replaced with a gap clip. The gap clip locked the storyline clips to the right in place so no clips slide in the Timeline.
Press Command-Z to undo the previous edit.
Reselect the “uhhm” clip segment, if necessary, and press Delete.
The segment is removed, and the following clips slide to the left to replace it.
Play the edit and listen to the results.
The new, second MVI_1043 might sound like the first word is cut off a bit or still have a bit of the “uhh” remaining. In addition to that concern, does the breath at the end of the first MVI_1043 distract and call attention to the edit? Or, does the breath naturally flow into the second MVI_1043 clip?
Using the ripple trim techniques you’ve learned, clean up the edit to smooth the audio transitions between these two new neighbors.
You may first want to remove the breath at the end of the first, or ending, clip. You may also need to insert or remove frames to the start point of the second clip, the starting clip. Refer to Using the Keyboard to Ripple Trim an End Point in this lesson to review ripple trimming.
Visually, this edit is a jump cut. A jump cut occurs when similar but nonsynchronized content appears to jump in space and time at an edit point. The B-roll you will add in a few minutes will hide this error.
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Checkpoint 4.4.2
Refer to Appendix C for details on reviewing a Checkpoint.
