From the course: Video Journalism: Shooting Techniques

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Editing cutaways

Editing cutaways

I am going to show you how to edit in cutaways. I have got three different sequences here. I have got a standard interview setup and right over here is going to be a jump cut. And you are noticing that we have no audio here. I have muted that track just to avoid stepping on it. There is that one jump cut there. I need to cover that up somehow. In the grocery, we've got shopper coming in the door, something like this. We need to get from there to where he's walking down the aisle here. We could do that without a cutaway, but I'd rather have to cut away there to make it a little smoother. Finally, for the choir, we have Audio 1 for this one. We need to match some sound here. I want to have this wide shot and then cut in a little cutaway of a tight shot, so something like right about there. I want to grab a cutaway from this little shot over here and insert that over there as a cutaway. So let's start with the interview. Let's just take a look at this little problem here. We've got this…

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