Chapter 8. Editing Your Movie

Lesson Files

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Time

This lesson takes approximately 90 minutes to complete.

Goals

Organize your workspace

Use Keywords and Keyword Filtering to streamline your editing

Find the natural structure within your video footage

Assemble a rough cut while building a documentary narrative

Learn to extract audio

Master the cutaway to create engaging video

As you learned in the previous lesson, when you approach a filming situation with a good shooting plan, you’ll leave the shoot with a wide variety of shots and footage that can be used to craft a well-rounded and well-told story.

But regardless of what you planned, ...

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