Chapter 4. Enhancing Your Editing

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Making a three-point edit

• Creating additional storylines

• Trimming audio and video separately with a split edit (also known as making a J or L cut)

• Grouping clips together as a compound clip

• Adding markers and to do items

• Auditioning multiple shots or takes

• Editing in beat to the music

• Using the precision editor

• Using multicam, part 1 — getting your media synced and prepped

• Using multicam, part 2 — making the live cut

• Using multicam, part 3 — fine-tuning your multicam edit