Through this next section, we're going

to apply our JNL cutting

and end up with a close to final version of our edit as is.

This is where the video portion,

the visual portion transitions from this clip to this clip.

Well, what if I would like the video to start here, right?

So I'd like it to start on this peak

of the audio wave right here.

There's two ways that we can go about doing this.

The first is to use the alt key

to select just the video track.

The alt key is a modifier inside Da Vinci Resolve,

or it would be the option key if you're in

Mac when we're editing.

If we only wanna select just the audio

or just the video of a given video

and audio clip, we can use the alt key

to select one of those.

So with just the video selected, I can grab

that right end and pull it in.

Or what you can do is you don't even have

to select the video track, which is the alt key.

You can hold down the alt key and drag just the end of it.

'cause if not, if I were to select both the video

and audio, we're gonna, again,

we're getting back to that territory.

We're cutting off the audio tail.

So alt key drag

and select the right n the alternative to this.

So I'm gonna hit control Z,

and I'm not as big of a fan of this workflow,

but if it makes sense to you, go ahead.

I'm gonna hold down the alt key

and click just the video track again, right?

So I just want the video track,

and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna drag it down so

that they're both on the same track.

And now what we can do is grab the transition point

and pull it over forming that more traditional J.

So that looks and sounds like this.

Hey, let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

So a mistake that a lot

of beginning editors make is a, there we go.

Now let's go apply this to our timeline

to improve the pacing of our video.

I'm gonna hit S to zoom out shift

and scroll wheel to make things a little bit more condensed.

I'm gonna get rid of these two practice clips by dragging,

selecting them and hitting F

or the backspace key to get rid of 'em.

Now, back to the beginning. Need to zoom in.

I'm gonna begin to work with just our a roll here,

our talking head footage.

While we're doing that, there might be moments where I go

to cut and we accidentally cut our music track,

which we don't, we don't wanna do.

I, I'd like to leave our music track alone as is.

So what we can do is this, go ahead

and direct your eyes over to the left.

Over here. You might have noticed

that each track has a few little icons next to it.

Each of these serves a very useful purpose.

For example, if I wanted to

mute the audio on this first track, well,

what I can do is I can click the M button

and now we only hear the background audio.

Lemme on check that real quick.

What if we've got 10 different audio tracks

and we only wanna hear this third one?

Well, the button right next to it is called solo

because we will solo that track.

Pretty nifty, right? You can also drag

and hold down to select multiple tracks at one time.

So if I want to unmute and mute all three tracks, I can drag

and select up and down the icon.

Next to that is the sync lock,

which we're not gonna address quite yet.

But the final one is this lock icon.

And when we click that,

it locks this track from any changes in adjustments.

So if I were to hit a, I cannot cut the music track

and I can't move it either.

So if we were to begin ripple deleting here, this,

this track is locked in place for all adjustments.

So with the music track lock, let's go back to the beginning

of our footage here and let's begin to do some j cutting.

Here's my workflow. Anytime I'm transitioning from this clip

to this clip, I will either drag the clip up so

that I can begin to adjust the

timings of the following clip.

Or I will go to the end

and make an arbitrary cut on the tail portion.

Could be here, could be here, could be here, doesn't matter.

I just need a chunk that I can bring up one level so

that way I can grab this clip and slide it underneath.

Here we go. Mistakes that a lot of beginners make.

So a mistake that a lot of beginning editors, Hey,

let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

So a mistake that a lot of beginning edit, ah, problem,

we didn't move everything else over well, a couple solutions

for one, we could drag and select all the footage over here

and pull it over for two.

Uh, we could go to this little gap in here at f Ripple,

delete, or well we can begin doing

is using a new keyboard shortcut.

And for us, if you've downloaded my shortcuts,

that button is EE selects everything

to the right of the playhead.

So if I were to select EI can pull

everything over to the left.

You are using the default keyboard.

That button is gonna be alt plus y or option plus Y.

So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna continue

to clean up the timeline and improve the pacing.

I'm, I'm looking to string sentences together.

So what I do is something like this, click towards the end,

hit play technical of the edit over the story

of the edit when we're talking.

Okay, zoom in.

I can probably get rid of this portion right here.

Take a cut F so that I'm still seeing the tail.

And again, it might be hard to see on your guys' end,

but I can see a little tail here.

Make a cut on the tail portion, pull it up, go

to the right and now I'm gonna press E to select everything

so that when I pull this next clip underneath,

I'm grabbing everything

and it's just somewhere arbitrary the edit over the story

of the edit when we're talking about what.

Perfect. That sounds pretty good to me in my mind.

I'm just trying to line up, head to tail somewhere in there.

Again, go over here.

Now, what kind of effects you can include something else.

A lot of beginning. Hold this up. E slide this underneath.

Do you have to do this for every single cut?

No, of course not.

If I were to hit control ZA couple times,

I could just snip off this little bit here so

that we're starting right at the beginning of the dialogue

so I could hit a F so that I'm, I'm really close

to being right at the beginning, what kind

of effects you can include.

Something else. A lot of beginning.

I think that works perfectly fine as well.

Again, no right answer here.

The thing that we're trying to do

is just make better choices.

Let's go ahead and, and hit play editors.

Do opt-in is the overuse of prebuilt in transitions.

Until you're more comfortable with

how you should edit a video,

I'd avoid using some of those presets.

Perfect. A cut.

Another thing you could think about doing is in

between these pauses here.

If you want to make things a little bit tighter, see

how there's a little bit of a, uh,

a delay built in transitions until you're more comfortable.

You could even think about making a j cut here,

but I'm gonna leave it alone as is using

some of those presets.

And one of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video.

The audio. Do we need a j cut in between here and here?

I don't know, presets.

And one of the last things I, I think

as is it feels a little bit, it's pretty natural,

I wanna talk about is focusing on the audio of the video,

the audio of the here I do wanna make a little j cut.

Why? Because I just feel like I kind of want this

to punch in sooner.

A cut the tail off.

Drag up e to select everything to the right.

Pull it in about is focusing on the audio of the video.

The audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit.

So you should spend just as much time working

with your audio as you do working with the video.

Hope this helps and make a little cut here.

FI think one

of the big reasons why I like j cutting like this is

because there's an element of forgiveness to the edit.

If you don't wanna do this,

and if you wanna make sure that the, uh, the beginning

of this clip starts right at the beginning

of the dial dialogue every time, well,

you gotta be pretty precise there.

You need to bring your playhead right to that point right

before the dialogue begins.

Well, if I do j

and l cutting, well, what I can do is I can just grab the

tail here and then just pull this in somewhere,

somewhere relatively close so that it, it,

it feels somewhat smooth.

But you notice how I'm not grabbing the ends here

or grabbing the ends here.

I'm just moving things to where it feels. Okay, video.

Hope this helps and excited to talk more about editing.

Perfect. And I think we can actually cut it right there.

And there's one last step.

Our music carries on without any of the video.

So we need to trim the end of our music here.

I'm gonna go all the way over to the track three, unlock it,

and then pull in the end of our music.

And now we're sitting at 44 seconds

and this is what our video looks and sounds like.

Hey, let's talk about some editing mistakes

that a lot of beginners make.

So a mistake that a lot of beginning editors make is

that they focus on the spectacle of the edit over the story

of the edit when we're talking about

what really matters the most.

At the end of the day, it's the message being told in the

video, not what kind of effects you can include.

Something else, a lot

of beginning editors do opt-in is the overuse

of pre-built in transitions.

Until you're more comfortable with

how you should edit a video,

I avoid using some of those presets.

And one of the last things I wanna talk about is focusing on

the audio of the video.

The audio of the video accounts for 50% of the final edit,

so you should spend just as much time working

with your audio as you do working with the video.

Hope this helps and excited to talk more about editing.

Very nice crew.

We're getting close to wrapping up this project.