Summary
I was given the following two videos so I could learn about the editing process. I watched both the videos and took notes on what keyboard shortcuts to use and when he explained different things in the videos.
Original Video
The Process:
1:01 Cutting Out The Questions:
2:48 Cutting Out Redundancies and Unnecessary Information
7:55 Cutting Out Ums and Pauses
15:47 Shifting Video so it Starts with B-Roll
16:38 Adding B-Roll
18:36 Three Point Editing
21:12 Adding Stills
26:06 Zooming in on Stills
29:28 The Morph Cut
32:06 The Audio Mix
36:10 Adding Music and Color Correction
Video 2:
1:24 Organizing Your Interviews
13:00 Cutting Out Ums and Pauses
Shortcuts:
- V – Selection tool
- Q – Cuts everything to the left
- W – Cuts everything to the right
- Cmd, K – Makes a cut
- \ – Shows the entire timeline
- Home – Moves cursor to the beginning of the timeline
- I – In-point
- O – Out-point
- A – Selects all tracks forward
- ; – Lift (leaves a gap)
- ‘ – Extract (fills the gap)
- Cmd, D – Fade in
- B – Ripple edit tool
- Up Arrow – Moves cursor to the left edit
- Down Arrow – Moves cursor to the right edit
- Left Arrow – Moves cursor to the previous frame
- Right Arrow – Moves cursor to the next frame
- Cmd, Shift, D – Cross fade
- Number Pad – Moves cursor to a specific location on the timeline
- A – Selects all tracks forward
- Opt, X – Clears all in-points and out-points
- Shift, 3 – Select the timeline