Producing and reviewing an off-line edit - P4(b)

The timeline panel is where your video takes shape. By dragging items from the project panel or source monitor and placing them in the desired order, you create a sequence of clips and events which play in the timeline from left to right.

In timeline, we are able to adjust edit points, making clips shorter or longer, or stretch them over time. There we also can create multiple layers of video, e.g. titles, superimposed images, etc., multiple layers of audio, e.g. voiceovers, music, etc. We are also able to add transitions, filters, special effects. When the editing have been finished, we can play the timeline back in real time or export it in a variety of formats.

Below you can see my timeline where I’ve put all my videoclips in order, according to my storyboard and the changes I’ve described in ‘the following my production process’. The names of my shots reflects what is happening in there. This timeline is without applying any effects yet.

On this screenshot you can see that the name of the show which is playing reflects what Nelly is doing. The shot name is ‘Waking Up’ and we can see that Nelly is not sleeping anymore, she is waking up.


The screenshot below is another example of the names of the shows have been set correctly. The name of the shot is ‘Taking Jeans’ and we can actually see it.

Continuity editing is the predominant style of film editing and video editing in the post-production process of filmmaking of narrative films and television programs. The purpose of continuity editing is to smooth over the inherent discontinuity of the editing process and to establish a logical coherence between shots. This is a style of editing that requires the director to try to make the film reality as much like the audience’s reality as possible. This means the film is trying to recreate what the world around us is and trying to make it easier on the audience to comprehend and understand the action happening on the screen.

Continuity editing of my video is shown below. 

1. We can see that Nelly is taking her jeans in the first shot and in the second shot she is putting them on.

2. Here we can see that Nelly is coming down form the stairs to the exit of the main building of school, than we can the main entrance of school from outside and then Nelly is coming out from the door of the main entrance.

Some of my shoots were really long and I needed to cut them. Cutting helps to make the pace going faster so the audience wouldn’t be bored by watching one shot for a long time.

In Adobe Premiere Pro there is a special tool which is called ‘Razor’. In order to split the video in two or remove the segment in the middle of the clip, Razor tool might be used. It’s called a razor because in the traditional film editing process a tape was literally sliced with a razor blade to remove unwanted pieces of the film or rearrange segments of a film. 

To do the cuts in Premiere Pro I had to click on the Razor Tool in the Tool palette. Razor tool is an item that looks like a little razor blade. Then I just clicked on a clip at the point where I wanted to cut it. Then I clicked on the Selection tool in the Tool palette so I could select the segment to move it or to delete it (by pressing the delete key).

The first tool is a Selection Tool. The 6th tool is a Razor Tool.