From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
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Using J and L cuts - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
Using J and L cuts
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to look at refining your edit, and I can't think of a better way to start that conversation than to look at J- and L-cuts. Now, most new editors edit things like this, where there's one clip, and somebody says something. - Um, the assurance. - [Instructor] And then we cut to the next person, and they say their line. - What do you see? - [Instructor] But it creates this really janky, choppy flow that doesn't feel organic or natural, at all, it feels very amateurish. - Um, the assurance. - What-- - [Instructor] That's just not how people talk. It's just really weird. Like, if you're in a conversation with two other people, and they were talking, you wouldn't look at one person until they finish the sentence, and then look at the other person, and wait for them to talk, and then back and forth, like that, that's just not really how things go. So professional editors will often carry the audio over, past the edit point, or have it come in before…
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