Interview editing technique

With James we looked at editing techniques for interviewing.

James told us to use constant power to croustade the audio to an interview. You can use this by going to the project window, go to effects, then to croustade and then constant power. Then you drag and drop the constant power effect on the timeline. You use the constant power effect so the decibels remain the same. James also told us to ensure we don't sanitise the person being interviewed, for example if they have a stammer don't try and edit this out, as this is how the person speaks.

You can link the audio and video together by clicking ctrl and link, so they move together when moving them on the timeline. James told us to try and avoid jump cuts by using the crossfade.

There is an incoming and outgoing clip. There is also the head of a clip.

How does it sound?

You need a music layer and radio edit the voice layer.

You need to make sure you have an organised timeline - for example on V1 you need the interview video, on A1 you need he interview audio, and on A2 you need the cut-away audio. For V3 you have the graphics (GFX).

If you are editing foreign language video, you need to make sure you have the French audio on A8.

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