Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0 [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

1.

Click the Lesson 8-2 Finish tab in the Timeline and play the first set of clips. That is how your project should look and sound by the end of this mini-lesson.

2.

Open the Lesson 8 Practice sequence.

3.

Select Sound Bite 8a and Sound Bite 8b (Ctrl+click in that order) in the Project panel and drag them to the Video 1 track.

You will trim the beginning and end of the first clip as well as cut out a portion to remove a pause. Then you will add a cutaway to cover that removed section and cover up the original edit point.

4.

Use the Ripple Edit tool (B) to trim the beginning of the first clip to just before the horse rider says "Stay focused." That's at about 24 frames.

5.

Use Ripple Edit to trim the end of the first clip to just after the rider says "important stuff," about 11;06.

The next clip does not need trimming.

6.

Listen to the middle of the first clip and use the Program Monitor to set an in-point right after she says "at other horses"about 5;02.

You will do an Extract in a moment.

7.

Set the out-point in the Program Monitor right before she says "keeping your heels"about 6;20.

8.

Target the Video 1 and Audio 1 tracks by clicking their headers (where the track names are listedhighlighted in the next figure).

9.

Click the Extract button in the Program Monitor.

That performs the equivalent of a Ripple delete to remove that pause. Your sequence should be 18;09 long (more or less) and look like the next figure.

[View full size image]

10.

Listen to and watch the sequence. Notice how the rider's face makes little jumps at the two edit points.

You will cover up those two jump-cuts with a single cutaway.

11.

Double-click Cutaway 8a in the Project panel to load it in the Source Monitor. Note that it is 5;02 (five seconds and two frames) long.

12.

Click the center clip in the Timeline to select it and click the Info panel's tab. Note that this clip is 4;16 long. The cutaway is sufficiently long to cover this clip.

13.

Put the Timeline CTI at the edit point between the first and second clip.

You will use the Source Monitor Overlay feature to place the clip there.

Cutaways should either start or end at the edit point. If they start there, then the action ends or the interviewee finishes a comment while still on-screen. If a cutaway ends at the edit point, that lets the action or comment begin on-screen. Positioning a cutaway so it covers the end and the beginning of the two clips is generally awkward.

13.

Click the Audio 2 track header to target it.

You will use this cutaway's audio. The Video 1 track header is already highlighted and therefore targeted. The audio and video from the cutaway will go to the targeted tracks.

14.

Use the Set In and Out Points buttons to mark the beginning and end of the entire Cutaway 8a clip.

15.

Check that the Toggle Take Audio and Video icon in the Source Monitor is set to Audio and Video ().

Your set-up should look like the next figure.

[View full size image]

16.

Click the Overlay button. ().

That overlays the video on the Video 1 track, covering the sound bite video clip and its two jump-cuts, and places the audio on the Audio 2 track.

17.

Drag a Cross Dissolve from Effects > Video Transitions > Dissolve to the edit point between the second and third sound bite clips.

Since the third clip has no head frames, the transition will end at the edit point. But the dissolve makes this scene change work nicely.

Cutaway editingextra credit

If you want to take cutaways to next level, you can use the second group of clips in the Lesson 8-2 Finish sequence as a model. It has an opening scene, the audio fades out as the rider begins speaking, and the sequence closes with a different shot that starts before the rider finishes her last comment.

Take note of a couple video editing techniques. I place the opening clip so the horse and rider move offscreen before putting the interview on-screen. And for the closing shot, I start with the horse and rider offscreen. Both techniques make for more comfortable editsto ease viewers into and out of sound bites. In addition, I gradually fade the cutaway audio up and down to ensure those edits are not jarring to the viewer's ears. To do that means adjusting keyframesa concept I explain in several lessons later in the book.