Summary
Here is what you have achieved in Chapter 8:
- Learned what cutaways and cut-ins are and why they are used
- Learned what continuity editing is
- Learned how to create a cut-in on the Edit page
- Learned how to create a cutaway on the Edit page
- Used a Smooth Cut transition to hide a jump cut
- Learned what a split edit is (J and L cuts) and how to create them
Learning how to edit using B-roll and split edits gives us a greater opportunity to tell a seamless story where the viewer is more immersed in our story and not distracted by our editing techniques.
In Part 3 of the book, Advanced Techniques, we start with Chapter 9, where we will look at how to shoot for a green screen so that we can change our backgrounds for our videos in DaVinci Resolve.