September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
18h 15m
English
You may have heard film editing referred to as cutting. This, of course, refers to the fact that you literally cut the work print of a film. In some circles, however, editing is called joining, which refers to the process of splicing film segments together. The term you prefer may say something about your attitude toward editing—emphasizing either the elimination or the union of footage. Literally speaking, editing involves both cutting and joining clips. You select portions of the source footage and arrange them into one or more sequences.
The basic editing methods covered in this chapter fall into three categories: drag-and-drop editing; editing with the controls in the Source and Program Monitors; an automated ...