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Editing matched action and sequences

Editing matched action and sequences - Premiere Pro Tutorial

From the course: Video Journalism: Shooting Techniques

Editing matched action and sequences

I'm going to explain the thought process I go through when I shoot and edit tight and wide shots and matched-action sequences. I already got a sequence of shots loaded up here inside this Premiere Pro timeline. Actually, this is called a sequence inside Premiere Pro. So to avoid confusion, this whole thing here inside Premiere Pro is a sequence, and we're editing a sequence of connected shots here inside the sequence. Nevertheless, I've got the sequence loaded up inside Premiere Pro and I'm not going to explain how to edit a sequence. That's really something you can learn in one of the many other lynda. com courses that refer to video editors. Just choose a course that's based on the editor that you work with. Nevertheless, let's just take a look at these shots and that's the first thing that I do when I edit a sequence. I like to look at the shots and get a sense of how they're all going to piece together. So I've put all the shots here inside the Source panel. I can go through them…

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