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CHAPTER 5: TRIMMING ■

What Is Trimming?

What exactly does an editor do? If you’re like me, you’ve had parents that have been

asking that same question for years. And the answer, if you think too hard, is not an

easy one.

The scene, for lack of a better term, lives and breathes. The director gives it life,

and the editor gives it cadence. Every scene has a rhythm. And it is the editor’s job to

find that rhythm.

It doesn’t matter what kind of program you’re editing—be it wedding videos,

game shows, sitcoms or drama—the scene always has some sort of cadence to it, and

it’s your job to find it and refine it.

Here is some food for thought. Take a look at your favorite game show. The

contestants are waiting. The announcer announces the host. We cut to a wide shot of

our host greeting contestants and audience. We cut to the audience. We cut back to the

host at the podium. All choreographed with precision. If you listen carefully, you might

note that the cuts come on certain changes in the music underneath the applause of the

audience. And from there, it is question-and-answer as the game goes on.

What about your favorite TV sitcom? It has a rhythm, too. When was the last

time you saw a character in a sitcom actually hang up a phone? You’ll probably never

see it for two reasons: any dilly-dallying (such as fumbling with a receiver on the hook)

ruins the rhythm of the scene. And if you pay attention, you’ll note that events on sit-

coms happen faster than real time; that is, faster than they would normally occur in

real life. The world of the situation comedy is quick and snappy, just the way the audi-

ence wants it.

Commercials are of course obvious. Advertising moves at a quicker-than-life

pace to present everything it can to get into your head and make you want to buy

product in 29 seconds and 20 frames.

Newscasts, sportscasts, the weather—they all involve precise timing. And with-

out precise timing, they would take forever. If newscasts are covering a tragedy (and

they most always are) then you’re probably going to see it unfold just as quickly and as

precisely as possible—just the right timing to get in a few commercials. Rarely is any

event covered in real time.

Note: One of my pet peeves with students is that at times they avoid Trim mode altogether,cutting the

sequence and correcting their initial edits by doing the whole cut over again.This is time-consuming and

downright inefficient.The true heart of Avid editing is trimming.So read each of these methods carefully and

you will quickly pick up all the skills needed to adjust your cuts to perfection.

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