16 Working with Four-point Edits


#16 Working with Four-point Edits

Suppose you have only three good seconds of B-roll, but a four-second gap to fill? This is the classic four-point edit.

Start by setting the In and Out points in the Source Monitor for the good B-roll that you have and your In and Out points in the sequence representing the video you have to hide (Figure 16a). Next, do the following:

Figure 16a. Now we're selecting all four pointsIn and Out points in both the Source Monitor and Program Monitor/timeline.


1.

Click the Overlay button, and Premiere Pro displays the dialog box shown in Figure 16b.

Figure 16b. The four-point edit only makes sense when you choose the first option; all others essentially perform a three-point edit.


2.

Choose Change Clip Speed (Fit to Fill), and Premiere Pro will slow down the B-roll to make it fill the space. Since there's not a lot of bouncing, cheering, or waving arms in the B-roll (it's a piano recital, after all, not a Springsteen concert), most viewers probably won't even notice that we slowed it down.

Neither of the final two alternatives makes sense, since this would leave one second of blocked video in the front or back of the inserted B-roll. Note that if the selected area of the B-roll exceeded the selected area in the sequence, the second and third choices (grayed out in Figure 16b) would become active.

Again, however, neither of these choices would make sense; if you wanted to trim the Clip's Head (left side), you would have performed a three-point edit and just set the Out point. The only time it makes sense to use a four-point edit is when the duration of your source video and the duration of the sequence you need to fill don't match, and Premiere Pro either needs to slow the video down to fit, or speed it up.




Adobe Digital Video How-Tos. 100 Essential Techniques with Adobe Production Studio
Adobe Digital Video How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques with Adobe Production Studio
ISBN: 0321473817
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 148
Authors: Jan Ozer

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