Re: Favorite Tricks/Cheats

the best trick, if you will, is editing narration, specifically creating a word out of parts of other words. We get narrations from doctors, usually recorded as they watch a video. They make it up as they go, which means a lot of umms and ahs and periodic mid-word re-takes without restarting the sentence.

For example:

Here we are taking down the, ah.................the ah......greater omentum. Next, using a kelly,er, a debakey pickups we isolate the infer..superior mesenteric vein, ligating it with, between suturMIC POP s, paper shuffle. Etc..

The secret is to edit it so it sounds somewhat natural, inserting room tone to have natural pauses after I edit out the verbal glitches. In the case of a Mic pop or other noise during a word, I try to remember where that word was used previously. The one advantage of irregular off the cuff narration is there is sometimes enough space between words that words can be borrowed from other areas when needed, and the inflection is not too bad.

A trick which saves the edit on many occasions is freeze frame, cut out the background, and key the object over something else. I often do this to add interest to a text build, and it is somewhat invisible to the viewer, especially if you knock back the opacity.

Mike