Organizing B-roll

Once you've built your primary narration track, you're going to want to add some B-roll. The …term B-roll harkens back to the day when we actually used two separate decks to edit video, …you had your A-roll deck and then a separate deck that would playback other footage, or …the B-roll, and these would often get cut together. …Now A-roll and B-roll is pretty straightforward, but you'll just hear the term used to describe …footage that is added to a project that is descriptive in nature. For the case of this …project, we have several folders of B-roll organized by topic, and what I need to do is …get that footage organized and start to add it to my timeline.…

As we alluded to before, watching this process is going to be a little bit boring. I'm going …to show you how to organize a few clips and add those to the timeline and then I'll repeat …the process, sort of like Julia Child off-camera. You're welcome at that point to pause this …online training and go ahead and finish out the editing on your own, or you could jump forward …