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Using the Razor tool

Using the Razor tool

Most editors have their favorite tool, and mine perhaps is the Razor tool. I love it and I use it in almost everything that I do. Basically, what the Razor tool allows us to do is to split up footage. Here, I have this project, the initial project that we were looking at throughout this training series, but this is the original clip. Let's look at this. (Music playing.) (Male speaker: Beautiful scenery?) (Male speaker: Plenty of places to ride, beautiful weather.) (Male speaker: It just doesn't get any better than this.) (Music playing.) So you notice the music goes on a lot longer. When I initially setup this project in my head, I'm thinking that these clips, the things that he says, they are too close together. I want to give it some breathing room, so that we could put this cool B-roll in and that it would have just little bit more emotional impact. So when he said like, this line about different places to ride. (Music playing) (Male Speaker: Plenty of places to ride.) I want to…

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