Building the A-roll

Now that we have our first clip loaded, it's time to trim away some of the unwanted portions. …In the case here, we're using an OnCamera performance of our host. I'm going to want …to trim away the part before he starts speaking, which is just camera chatter instructions …from the directory, in this case me. …We also have a few flubs that we're going to need to extract out. To do this, we're …going to delete away portions of the audio. Let's go ahead and drag through, and find …where he starts speaking to begin with. I know that there's some flub upfront, as we …got the camera synced and we recorded. I'll just drag through until he opens his mouth, …and it looks like it's about there.…

I'll zoom in here to make it little easier to see, and I'm around 40 seconds. Let's press Play. …(video playing) …That's pretty good. I'll leave a little bit of pad so it doesn't start immediately on …his first word, and with the clip selected, I can click the scissor icon here to Split …at the playhead. You'll notice if we zoom back out, the clip is now been cut into two …