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Making a rough cut

Making a rough cut

One of the first major editing tasks usually is to create a rough cut. A rough cut is a basic ballpark approximation of what the final edit is going to be like. It doesn't have be perfect, it doesn't have to be smoothed out, but just kind of a general idea. Now Premiere has a great feature that's going to help us out with that here in the Project panel. Here in this project I have three clips of A-roll of our main subject being interviewed, and then I have three clips of B-roll, just basic like scenery shots here. And what I want to do is I want to cut them altogether so there is one clip of B-roll and then there's an interview in it, and then another clip of B-roll, and then an interview. This is basically how I want this project to go. So what I'm going to do is actually change the view here, because right now we're looking at this view, which is the list view. It's a list of all of the assets in our Project panel. I'm going to change this over to the Icon view, so we're actually…

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