From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2
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The Radio Edit technique - Media Composer Tutorial
From the course: Media Composer 2020 Essential Training: 110 Fundamentals 2
The Radio Edit technique
- [Narrator] The radio edit technique is an approach to editing rather than a specific workflow. It's a way to approach the timing of your edit where you're less distracted by the visuals and really focusing on the audio and the clue's in the name that it's called a radio edit. The workflow is really straightforward. You just turn off monitoring your video altogether and focus exclusively on the audio in your edit play back, review, adjust the timing and then switch the visuals on and check if they fit. Audiences are much more sensitive to issues with the soundtrack than they usually are to issues in the visuals. So you really need to make sure that the pace and rhythm of your dialogue is set correctly in the soundtrack first. There's a nice technique you can use to make it easier to navigate your radio edit. And to use this I'm going to introduce a new couple of buttons in our command palette. I'm going to the tools…
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Review of Trim mode5m 47s
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Using Auto Focus when entering Trim mode3m 19s
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Using Small Trim mode2m 7s
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Mouse jog and mouse shuttle1m 39s
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Choosing audio trim side1m 42s
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Trimming with the keyboard3m 5s
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Adding and removing frames with the numeric keypad2m 22s
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Trim on the fly with the J, K, and L keys5m 12s
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Selective sync locks3m 37s
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Using Add Edit to trim multiple tracks4m 46s
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Changing the center of the trim playback loop2m 21s
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Scrubbing audio while trimming1m 45s
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Fixing broken sync6m 24s
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The Radio Edit technique2m 27s
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Slipping and sliding segments5m 34s
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