Finessing cutaways to enhance the story

Cutaways are great. They add visual interest and spark to your story, and cover…the slew of edits after removing the ums and ahs of someone on camera.…But they'll put the fire out of your story if you let them overpower the…person that's talking, or choose a visual that actually takes you out of the…story all together.…In the Project Library, open the Finessing project.…This is where we left off from the previous movie.…We have cutaways, but some of those cutaways are a little loud and we can't…always hear Paul, who of course is the primary storyteller in these clips.…

Let's listen from the beginning.…(Video Playing) Paul: Here at Thanksgiving Coffee Company …we've learned to focus on the people. …Diana Weynand: When Paul begins talking in the second clip, we can't hear him at all.…Let's zoom into this area so we can see how we can fix this best.…Now it's not objectionable to hear the background sound of a cutaway when no…one else is speaking, but when somebody does start to speak, that's when we…