Preproduction


Capturing


Basic Editing


Effects


Output


Terms & Tools

Stage 3: Basic Editing
What It Is | Tools | Example | Tips

What Basic Editing Is

Basic Editing is composing your media clips into movie form. It can include cutting and pasting, trimming, and deleting to achieve the presentation you want.

Tools for Editing

Movie Maker lets you edit and combine multiple tracks of video and audio clips.

Sound Track is more powerful than Movie Maker for audio editing, and it includes a feature that helps you synchronize the sound to the movie.

Example: Kam's Editing Story

Assembles and Edits the Video

  • He brings the clips he collected with Media Recorder into Movie Maker.

  • He uses Movie Maker to cut, copy, and paste frames, and to preview the movie until he is satisfied with the arrangement and length.

Edits the Audio Tracks With Sound Track

  • After trimming and editing the movie, he finds that it comes to 29.6 seconds, so then he knows how much audio he is limited to. After capturing and importing the audio clips into Sound Track, he is ready to edit the audio.

  • He deletes any unwanted material in each of the three tracks (narrative, music, and sounds).

  • He uses Sound Track's movie synchronization and marker features to help him place the different sound clips exactly where he wants them to be in the movie. (Moving clips is as easy as selecting and dragging, or cutting and pasting with keyboard shortcuts.)

Combines the Audio and Video

  • He uses Sound Track to export (mix down) the audio into a file.

  • Imports the audio file into his movie in Movie Maker.

  • Views the movie in Movie Maker a few times to make sure he is satisfied with it.

Tips

  • To make precise editing selections, use the Frame Forward and Frame Back buttons (shown below). The keyboard shortcuts for Frame Forward and Frame Back are the arrow keys, <- and ->.

    
    

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