Understanding continuity editing
One use of cut-ins and cutaways is to help with continuity editing. Continuity editing is an editing technique where we aim to maintain the timing of the clips on the Timeline as if the action is happening in a continuous moment in time (even if the clips were shot at different times or on different days). Rather than try and understand it with a definition, it is easier to demonstrate it in the following exercise using the The_Wedding project that we downloaded earlier.
Even though we have stabilized the wedding video footage, there are still parts of the clips that we cannot fix, such as the camera drifting in and out of focus.
We will need to cut these out and hide the resulting jump cut with other B-roll footage, which was shot at a different time by a wedding guest. I have already color-coded the B-roll footage we are going to use as a teal color and the master footage as a lime green color to make them easier to find and differentiate. If...
