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Avoiding bad edits - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro CS5 Essential Training
Avoiding bad edits
Now we're going to take a brief look at what constitutes a bad edit, so you know and not to make those. This is one of the worst edits I've possibly ever seen and this is a clip from "Ninja Death 3." And here a guy and a girl are playing coy, kind of flirting a little bit, and then it cuts to something else, a different scene entirely, which is a little jarring just because it seems like they were kind of like flirting or kind of here. Not the worst edit ever, but they are somewhere else, and then all of a sudden it cuts back to the first couple, and all of a sudden they are embracing. So we didn't really tell the complete story. We don't know how they went from being coy and flirty and far away to embracing each other and being really close, and he is kind of like in mid-sentence arguing with her. So, emotionally there was a huge section there that we didn't see and we're seeing another part of the story instead. So we're not really seeing the complete story. Let's look at that edit,…
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