Timing your edits

(soft music) - Okay, so now the next step is going to be creating some gaps in the video that is on top for you to be able to see the lower one. So for example, in here, we're just seeing myself in the secondary camera. For example, choose one of these like this for example, to alternate between the camera here in this part that finishes just around here in this cut and until this other cut over here. And to do that, you just have to select this video and cancel it, either using delete or backspace. Now if you use delete, it just brings everything over here to the left and we don't want that. So I'm just going to click and then hit backspace and that's it. Now, since we don't have that video over here anymore, you're going to be able to see the video that is below, and we just created a change of camera in this part already. Other important thing to do is to decide which audio track is going to be your main one, because in this moment, they're just the same, but they're coming from different cameras. In this case, the audio connected from the main camera was the one that had the microphone connected to it. So what I could do is just delete all the audio that is down here, but I like to keep it just to be sure that everything is still synchronizing, that I didn't move anything by mistake. So what I usually do is that I just come up here to where there are these controls on the audio track, and I mute this track. This way I can always have the track over there. I can be sure that it's synchronized and if I play. I'm actually just playing this audio track over here. Every step of the process. Now, once you've done this rough cut, it's time to bring in the bureau. All those complimentary images that you shot for us to put on top of this video. And now that you've seen this basic preparation, I'm going to bring in the videos from the example project that you saw in one of the first classes. And here we have it. Okay, so in this part, I'm just talking about that I'm moving things around to find the right spot and that I'm using a pile of books to support the smartphone to film myself. So this is what I want to bring exactly that image. And to do that, you can just come back to the media pool over here and you're going to be able to see all the other shots that you took. And if you just pass the mouse over it, you're going to be able to see a very quick preview of what these files are. One other mode of doing this is coming up here and choosing this dual window setup, in which you can, for example, double click this one. And now you have all your files over here. You have a preview file here about what you just clicked and you have here what's on the timeline. So if I just scroll over here, you're going to be seeing the timeline itself. If you scroll over here, you're just going to see the video that you're about to insert into the timeline. So like this, you can choose just the piece that you want and bring it into the timeline. So in this case, I'm talking about the pile of books and the smartphone being on top of it. So I just want to bring in one of these images here, for example, in which you can see the light, the pile of books and the smartphone just down here. So let's say I want it from here until this part here, for example. To do that, you can just drag and drop this on the timeline, but then it's going to bring the whole clip inside and I don't want that. Or you can just select here the part that you want, type I on the keyboard, which makes an end point, and just go to the end and type O and it marks the out point. And as you can see, highlighted here on this small timeline, just the piece that I want. And now if I bring it in, it's going to bring just that piece. And probably you'll notice that when I hovered over here, appeared two different buttons, one for video and one for audio. So you could actually bring to the timeline just the video or just the audio, or if you just click on the image itself and bring it in, you're going to be bringing everything together. I'm going to delete, because in this case, actually, the only thing that matters to me is the video. So I'm just going to bring in the video and just position it exactly. Smartphone as my main camera. on top of some MacBooks. They're good for that also. Where I show exactly what I'm talking about. Now, if you watch carefully the bureau lesson, you know that some of these clips might have been shot in a higher frame rate than 25 frames per second. And to see that you can just come up to here and make it a list instead of this thumbnails. And you're going to be able to see FPS. Other editing softwares just the same. You're going to be able to see this pool of media as a list or as thumbnails. You can see this column called FPS, and you're going to be able to see that for example, this clip over here was shot at 60 FPS. So let's see which one it is. It's this one over here. Let's bring it into the timeline directly also. We can do that and we are going to be able to see that it's just playing real time, just giving a small glimpse into the light that I was using to record. So what I can do here is select this footage and press R on the keyboard, and it's going to bring up the change clip speed dialogue box. In other softwares also the same can be R, Ctrl R, or you can also right click and go into read time controls or change time, read time. It's always going to be something around this. In my case, I'm just going to press R. And here you're going to see speed frames per second or duration. So you can simply change one of these and it's just going to calculate for you what you want. So let's say for example, this is 60 frames per second, so let's slow down this clip the maximum we can. And since we are on a 25 frames per second timeline and we have 60 frames per second. We still slow down this to 40%. So let's put here 40 change. And now if I play this back, you're going to be able to see that it's just slowed down to 40% speed perfectly without any problems of skipped frames or anything like that, because we had more material than we actually needed to in this timeline. Okay, we're almost good to go. Let's add one more item to this timeline, which is music because we haven't added anything yet to the audio part of this project. I'm just going to drag one wav file over here. And it's the same thing. If you just double click it, you're going to be able to see in the preview panel here, all the wav form of the song, and you can just select one part, or you can simply drag and drop. In this case, you have to drop it on the audio part. And you don't need to create manually one new track here for you to insert something. You can just drag it. I'm just going to do it again. And the moment you position it below a track that already exists, automatically the software creates a new track for that. We don't need, so I'm just going to put it back there. And if you make it bigger over here, you're going to be able to see all the track laid out here for you. And it finishes around here. Sometimes when it gets a bit dark. So as you can see, it's impossible to understand anything that I'm saying because it's way too loud, the music. But controlling the volume on audio tracks, it's super easy, and you can do it directly here without using any kind of shortcuts. As you can see, this small white line that is passing here in the middle, the moment you pass the mouse over it, and I'm going to zoom in to make it even clearer, it becomes this double arrow thing that it can just drag and drop to increase or decrease the volume of something. So let's do it here, for example, for this song. I'm just going to click and drag it down and you're going to be able to see how much we are decreasing in DB in real time, and also the waveform going smaller and smaller, which also makes it much easier to understand if it's being reduced or what's happening here. So I'm just going to leave it here around minus 40 db and let's play it back again. I am using these earbuds as my microphone, and sometimes when it gets a bit darker. Now, you can't even listen it. So I'm just going to drag it up a little bit. That's it. I'm using also a small light from Aperture that was recommended in the course. I'm using also a small light from Aperture that was recommended- Okay, I can hear it. So now it's working pretty good. You just have to regulate so that the audio of the song doesn't overcome your voice and then it becomes too difficult to understand. Okay, so let's go for the key takeaways. The first one is that laying the clips on the timeline and synchronizing them has to be the first thing you do when editing multi cameras. The first cut of the video is super important for you to have an idea of where it's going and what's going to be the base for the rest of the video, the foundation. Use different kinds of cuts to keep the video flowing. One exercise here that is going to help you understand better the relationship between the amount of frames per second that is shot on your camera and your timeline in the editing software is to just grab one of these clips that are supposed to becomes low motion, throw them in the timeline and just slow them down and see how they react. Let's say, for example, you have a 100 frames per second clip, and the timeline is 25. In the sense you could slow it down up to 25%. So I wanted to configure it like that, see how it looks, and then try some higher percentages, like for example, 50%, meaning that it's going to be slowed down only to half of the speed. Then try 75% and see how much that slows down the clip. But what I want here is just for you to pay attention about how fluid a clip looks with different speeds, and also how stable it looks. Okay, so now that you know the basics of video editing, in the next lesson we're going to talk about creating smooth edits.