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Locking the picture and preparing the Timeline for finishing

Locking the picture and preparing the Timeline for finishing - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Locking the picture and preparing the Timeline for finishing

You may already be familiar with the concept of picture lock. The idea is that it's a moment in the process where we commit to our edits, stop making editorial and timing changes and switch over to a finishing mode. This is important for numerous reasons. If other people are going to be working on your mix or color correction, you need to hand over a cut that's locked so that editorial changes don't happen underneath the work they're trying to do. Second, it's an opportunity to communicate with the client about the content. Most clients are more focused on the content than the technical. So this is getting close to finished from their point of view. Last, it's just an opportunity in the process to watch carefully and try to make any changes that you're going to need to make, try to spot everything at this point. You'll remember that we started this chapter by watching, and now we've worked through all of the fun cutting stages. Well, all of those stages aren't one and out. It's an…

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