Editing an Interview
Summary
Terms and Concepts
Keyboard 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
- ; – Lift (leaves a gap)
- ‘ – Extract (fills the gap)
- 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 – Crossfade
- Number Pad – Moves cursor to a specific location on the timeline
- A – Selects all tracks forward
- . – Drops a clip into the timeline
- Opt, X – Clears all in-points and out-points
Techniques / Tools
Collating Files and Storyboard
Plan:
Workflow:
Project Skills Evidence
What I Learned
Having a good amount of editing experience in the past I was expecting to go into this knowing everything that would be thrown at me but I discovered the nitty-gritty specifics of how to make a fluid and strong interview. Using the morph cut and B-roll for the first time proved to be valuable and I am looking forward to using these in the future.
