From the course: Premiere Pro: Narrative Scene Editing
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Refining montage pacing - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro: Narrative Scene Editing
Refining montage pacing
In a montage you can alter the pacing at odd moments for effect. For a frenetic feel, I'll use at least one cut per second, but I won't stick to that rule. In this montage I am intentionally messing with the rhythm so that the pacing feels out of step, because this main character is feeing out of sorts. He is a bit off, and I want the viewer to feel that way too. So for example, while I may work on creating really short cuts, I'll actually bring in some longer shots in certain moments. Let's say for example he is working on his plan and I know that later, this becomes the winning design. If that's the case, I could linger on this shot just a heartbeat longer so that I am actually foreshadowing something that's to come later on. I would use the Ripple Edit Trim tool and zoom in to that part of the timeline, pressing B, and open that shot up a little bit. Now not so much that I would give away the ending. I don't want to be obvious. I just wanted to point out that sometimes I'll vary…
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