- 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
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Exercise 4.8.3 Connecting Two Additional B-Roll Clips
To complete this rough cut’s B-roll edits, you’ve got two concluding B-roll clips to add. Currently, the sunset shines through the helicopter’s windows at the music swell and grand pause. Then the music starts again, and Mitch begins his last sound bite. Time to land the helicopter “at the end of the day,” and to fly off into the sunset when remembering the day’s adventures.
In the GoPro event, locate a clip assigned the Landing keyword.
Looking in the Landing Keyword Collection of the GoPro event, you find GOPR0009.
In the Browser, skim to where the helicopter is completely visible in the frame, and mark a start point (00:00:07:24).
Although you just trimmed this clip, its duration is still almost 30 seconds. You might need only 10 of those seconds.
Skim GOPR0009 and set an end point as the helicopter touches down (00:00:17:28).
The duration should now be roughly 10 seconds.
Using the connect edit method of your choice, connect edit the landing clip to the primary storyline about where the music restarts at 00:00:58:16. This will also be just as or slightly before Mitch starts talking. Play the results.
This edit feels choppy because the sunset clip cuts to black followed by another clip cutting in from black. Before fixing that, you have one more clip to edit into the project.
In the Browser, search for an In Flight B-roll clip that shows the helicopter flying off into the sunset. You should find DN_9424.
You will later trim this clip in the Timeline to get it just right; but for now, set a start point before the helicopter enters the frame (02:05:51:06). You want that action to happen just as Mitch is finishing his last sound bite.
Connect edit DN_9424, “flying into the sunset,” just as Mitch is saying at 00:01:14:13, “Adventure I went on.” Trim the clip to end with the music.
That works. To finish with this clip, give its content some breathing room by adding several seconds to the clip’s start.
Drag the start point of DN_9424, and extend the start point to the left to when Mitch says, “Wow.”
Since you just added these two clips, take a moment to adjust their audio levels to more closely match the previous adjustments you made to the other clips.
Great! All the clips for your first edit are in your project. A final refinement pass will soften some not-so-clean edits.
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Checkpoint 4.8.3
Refer to Appendix C for details on reviewing a Checkpoint.
