[Premier pup licking Premiere Gal's Face]
[upbeat background music]
Sit boy. Good boy. Now please wait.
while I they teach them how to do the jump cut or how to trump the jump cut, #TRUMPCUT.
Hey everyone! It's Premiere Gal here today in this tutorial I'm going to
teach you how to avoid jump cuts in Adobe Premiere Pro. Now most of you know
what a jump cut is but for those of you that don't you have seen it before
essentially you're watching a video and somebody's talking and then all of a
sudden it jumps and their face kind of moves and they're going to talk about
something else
So that jump it doesn't make it seem continuous, right?
so as editors we want our videos like are documentaries and our narrative
films to be continuous
so the action flow seems real or appears real to the viewers' eye. So in this
video I'm going to teach you some of the tricks that I used in Premiere Pro and
as a video editor to avoid jump cuts or how to trump the jump cut I should say.
And at the end of the video I'm gonna tell you about some of my weekly video
obsessions. First, try whenever possible to shoot your videos with two angles
usually they're called camera A and camera B. For Camera A, I generally like to
position my interviewee on one side of the frame and with the interviewee's eye-line
line looking off camera towards the interviewer. Now with Camera B
I like it to be a little bit more dramatic of an angle where you see more
of the person's body and it would serve as another vantage point
so when you edit it doesn't seem like it's that much of a jump cut. As you see
in the timeline here I have layered Camera A on top of Camera B so I can
easily cut out Camera A to reveal Camera B underneath.
So if you use photoshop the concept of layers apply here in Premiere Pro as
well. Whatever is the top layer
it'll be what you see in the program window of your video.
So there was a jump cut. Now rather then show that jump cut
I'm just in a delete Camera A on top and it makes it seem like it's continuous
because it's a different angle, right?
So it seems more fluid it seems more continuous than seeing the exact same
image and then jumping
So my second tool for trumping jump cuts in Premiere Pro is the morph cut effect.
But essentially what it is it's a kind of like our cross-dissolve that you put
between clips and it morphs the clips together to make it seem like it's
continuous it's like the editors dream, right?
the way that you use it as you go to your project window and under "effects"
you search for "Morph."
You drag and drop the effect where you made the cut between the two clips and
it will take a couple moments to analyze the background - to literally morph the
two clips together.
And then you have to render it to see the final result.
That said, you will likely have to play around with the length and duration of
the morph cut until it looks like the two clips are one and they come together
continuously.
Lastly, the morph cut only works well when you have a controlled background,
right?
If there are people moving and walking behind the person on the screen and you
try to morph two clips together from two different time codes it
the people behind them will disappear and move and it just won't work. So the
third rule that I have for trumping your jump cut is just using photos or b roll
to cover up the jump cut.
So let's say your interview is talking about an experience that they had and
they say "um" a lot and that "um" is really annoying, right? So you want to cut that
out.
But there's going to be jump cuts. So rather than showing those jump cuts
why not have a nice photo of a beach in Phuket, where they were. Kind of just
overlaid on top of the timeline. So that will make it seem more seamless, right?
and then for a lot that the jump cut doesn't even noticeable just the person
talking and then you can cut away to a moment where they have a few seconds
where there's no jump cut.
So those are my three strategies to trump your jump cut in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Again, the first one: use two camera angles to switch in between them to
avoid your jump cut, 2. use the morph cut tool and 3. use broll and photos to
overlay your jump cuts in the timeline and lastly I want to tell you about a
few of my weekly video obsessions. One
I discovered this new company called Parachut.co and parachute is awesome
essentially they send you products to test out and you can play around with a
new camera before you want to buy it and you can decide and then you can ship it
back to them.
So whenever I want to choose a new camera to buy I'm definitely going to go
through Parachut.co. Lastly, my third weekly video obsession is this t-shirt~
This t-shirt I got from Wipster rom doing my last blog with them it's called
video is eating the world and I love it so much. So thank you Wipster for that.
So that's it! I hope you guys enjoyed the video and let me know if you have
any questions!
You were being a bad boy today, but I love you!
Video is eating the world and Spike is eating my couch.