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

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Getting perspective by reviewing the rough cut

Getting perspective by reviewing the rough cut - Final Cut Pro Tutorial

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

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Getting perspective by reviewing the rough cut

- Before you get started on any project, it's important to know as much about the project and the objective of the story before you start cutting. So, of course, reading the script is critical and, if there is a rough cut that might have been created on set, you should watch that just to get a sense of the flow of the story as the director envisioned it. Now, I'm going to quickly scrub through this rough cut and talk about some of the highlights that we're going to be covering, and before I do that, I'm going to go ahead and turn off something called Scrubbing, it's right over here, it's just so you don't hear the sound as I move my cursor across the timeline. You can leave this on, because you might like to use it while editing, while some other editors find it distracting, and they just turn it off from the very beginning. Now, the first scene we're going to look at and cut is this introductory scene, a dialogue scene, that creates the conflict at the beginning of the story arc. The…

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