From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
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Matching action - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 08 Editing
Matching action
- [Instructor] Matching action, also sometimes referred to as cutting on action, is when we cut in the middle of something happening. It's called matching action because it's important to make sure that the last frame of the first clip feels like it comes immediately before the first frame of the next clip. Check out this sequence from The Fellowship of the Ring, as Frodo stands, we cut to another shot, notice the last frame, called the tail, of the first clip, which is called the outgoing clip, and the head, or first frame, of the second, or incoming clip. Putting the cut in the middle of the action buries the edit, which means that we don't even notice it. I did this on the first music video I ever directed about a decade ago, so I shot one shot that I thought that was kinda like the a-cam because I liked the way the perspective lines kinda came out from the freeway and the way that looked at this angle and for the second take I broke all the rules, like in a bad way though, and I…
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