From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing

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Cutting down the rough cut

Cutting down the rough cut - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

From the course: Final Cut Pro X v10.1.x: Narrative Scene Editing

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Cutting down the rough cut

- All along as you've been editing, you've probably looking at each scene and seeing what you can remove and what you leave in. One of the last steps is to look at your assembled film and see if the whole film can be shortened. I'm going to step inside 7.04 and I have in my timeline both the original rough cut and actually a shorter rough cut. I'm not going to play it here for you here because you can go back to the table of contents and watch both the long rough cut and the short rough cut. What I want you to take note of is that the long rough cut followed the script precisely. But once we watch the entire rough cut before we did any of the polishing, we realized there were some scenes that could completely come out. A lot of times the first cut of a feature film four to four and half hours, which nobody would ever sit though. And then they cut it down to the best 90 to 120 minutes. It's important at this stage to make sure that the story is self contained. And if there are extra…

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