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Adding notes to B-roll clips

Adding notes to B-roll clips - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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Adding notes to B-roll clips

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We're beginning to dig deeper into our footage, but before I start to assemble it on a Timeline I want to make some notes or annotations on the B-roll, or observational shots. We've already started a pattern with our interviews, and I want to continue that pattern in our annotations but also adapt it so it works better for the B-roll. Let me show you what I mean. For each one of these the B-roll shots I want to open up the shot and take a quick glance, and I always want to add in the description just a quick note of the framing. I find it very useful as an editor. If I have a quick glance placed just to see is it a wide shot, a medium shot, a close-up what have you. So this is a wide shot, I'll usually skim through to see if it changes drastically, it does go to sort of a medium wide here but in general we're talking about wide framing, which is what I want. Also I want to note that, in this case, I'm pretty satisfied with the clip names already. With the interviews I wanted to change…

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