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J-cuts and L-cuts

J-cuts and L-cuts - Premiere Pro Tutorial

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J-cuts and L-cuts

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- [Instructor] J cuts and L cuts are a classic editing approach that allows you to blend the contents of two scenes. It's a little bit more than a cross dissolve or a cross fade. When you perform a J cut or an L cut the audio from one scene merges into the next, giving the sense that that scene in some way impacts or relates to the other. I've got a perfect example in this sequence. This is the J cuts and L cuts sequence, I'm working on the complete version again, and I have a noisy opening shot and then a relatively quiet dialogue scene. Let's take a look. (white noise playing) - Excuse me. - [Instructor] It's quite abrupt, and that might be what you want to achieve creatively, but let's see if we can merge these together. I'm going to zoom in in the timeline panel so we can see the join between these two clips. And right now I have linking turned on on the timeline. So when I select one of these clips, for…

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