From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
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Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Avid Media Composer: Documentary Editing
Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit
Okay, by now you've laid out the entire audio foundation for each scene in your documentary. You've added supplementary B-roll to help advance your narrative. You've included additional visual elements that help deepen your story, like montage editing, parallel editing, and process footage. You've established a structured film grammar to define your film style. Now it's time to bring the scenes together and add finishing touches for the rough cut. Now logistically, combining your scenes is as simple as just editing them together. You just need a master sequence, and you need this to contain as many tracks as your scenes do. So I think the most number of video tracks that I have is at least one more, maybe two. So I'm just going to press Command+Y twice, or Ctrl+Y on a PC, and I think the most number of audio tracks I have in any one scene is four, so I'm just going to press Command+U twice more, or Ctrl+U on a PC, and instead of double-clicking on the sequence to load it, I'm just…
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An overview of the rough cut process3m 38s
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Making the paper edit3m 9s
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Using a two-column script3m 33s
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Assembling the radio edit7m 15s
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Building scenes with B-roll9m 30s
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Editing process footage6m 29s
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Using montage and parallel editing to manipulate time and ideas8m 20s
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Adding natural and environmental sound6m 11s
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Correcting audio6m 22s
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Putting it all together: Completing the assembly edit5m 29s
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