Okay in this lesson we're going to look at multi-layer editing. Now since the last lesson
I've just quickly edited the interview with the gallery owner here into three short segments
and remember before we had over on this left hand side we had the pictures, the video of
the gallery owner as she was at her computer. Now what I want to do is to try and create
two separate tracks, one for what we call the B-roll which is the additional footage
to the main interview and then one for the A-roll which is the interview itself which
is this here. So to do that I'm just going to select this footage here and I'm going
to drag the audio down into the audio channel below it, so I just need to take the play
head off and then I'll be able to do that and then I'm going to drag the video up again
onto a different channel. So now I can move this across either way and I can put it on
top of her speaking. So let's try and put a few other edits in as we go. So we're going
to start with just some opening pictures of her in the gallery. So we start here of her
working in the gallery and I'm just going to play it here. You can see her at the typewriter,
at the computer, closer, closer. And now after that we want to go into the interview and we're
going to put that down here so I should have dragged them all together, snap that up so
we can see it snapped across here. So there she is working. And then we hear her talking.
Now what maybe we should do is as she's talking we want to still hear her voice talking but
we want to put in some additional B-roll. So to do that we're going to come over here
and find some other things. Now we've got a nice sequence of images as she comes out
of the office here and then she walks down the steps. So let's just bring that back to
the point where she's just about to come out. There we go. Put our in point and then we'll
play that through. She comes out, walks around the corner and walks down the steps. Okay,
we can stop it there and we've just put our out point in. Now if I bring that down, so
if I just grab the film here, that's video only. Here's audio only and video only is
a little film here. I just grab that, bring that down and I'm going to put it over the
play head at this particular point. Now look what happens is we're going to still hear her
talk but we're not going to hear, sorry we're going to still hear her but we're not going
to see her. So let's just play it from here. Just look over here on the right hand side.
She's typing. I'm Maria Manuela Balade. She's got an interview. And here we hear her still
talking. And look what we've also done is we've managed to cover up this edit here with
the video so we don't see it jumping. Let me just take that out. What I'm going to do
is just take that piece of video and bring it over here and just see, let you see the
jump here without that. Okay, you see how it suddenly jumps? We put that on there and
we don't see it. And actually we don't notice the jump in the sound nearly so much because
we don't see it. Okay, that's great. We've got another little problem here. We need to
cover that up as well. So let's find another piece of footage that we can use. So here
we have her coming down the steps. I'm walking across but maybe what I want here is just
a, maybe a painting. So let's just take a little bit of that. Let's play that. In point,
out point. Nice. Okay, now I just want the film, remember? So grab the film and put it
over that join there. And then after that, maybe I have a wide shot of inside the gallery.
Maybe something like this. There we go. Take it in point, few seconds, out point. And then
I can, oops, sorry, wrong one, get just the film only. Drag that down and put it there.
Okay, now as we see in our little edit here, just play it from around here, we have a nice
introduction of her in the office. Then we hear her speaking and then we go to a little
bit of B-roll of her walking around and we see the paintings down further down. Okay,
let's just play that.
I'm Maria Manuela Palate. I was born and grew up here in the city of Mapoto, the city of Mapoto.
Okay, that's enough for now. So in the next lesson, we're going to look at how to create
some smoothness in this. We're going to kind of smooth out or dissolve out some of those
little jumps that we've got in there to make the whole thing look a little bit more professional.
