I understand how to do an L cut where you hear a line before cutting to a shot of the character saying it. But what about the other way round where a character starts a line and then carries on saying it to another shot of another character( maybe to get their reaction)
Also, what if the other character then replies to it? isn't it really hard to time it right that the overlapped line finishes in time for the response to start.
And also, don't you have to make the overlapped line cover up the same line on the raw footage? because presumably the character giving the reaction line must have been given a queue so that they knew when to come in, so you would be able to here it very faintly on the audio.
Thanks to any help!!
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Originally posted by black_fimo
I understand how to do an L cut where you hear a line before cutting to a shot of the character saying it. But what about the other way round where a character starts a line and then carries on saying it to another shot of another character( maybe to get their reaction)
It's done exactly the same way and it's
called an L-cut, too
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Also, what if the other character then replies to it? isn't it really hard to time it right that the overlapped line finishes in time for the response to start.
Yes. The timing can be difficult so you
try several different ways until you get
what you want.
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And also, don't you have to make the overlapped line cover up the same line on the raw footage? because presumably the character giving the reaction line must have been given a queue so that they knew when to come in, so you would be able to here it very faintly on the audio.
The only way I know to avoid that problem
is to use ONLY the audio from shot A and
remove completely the audio from shot B.
That way the faintly heard audio from the
reaction shot isn't used at all.
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Unless the lines overlap it really isn't that much trouble. At least with digital editing. You can just dip the volume on the incoming clip until the reaction person speaks at which point you raise the volume and dip the volume on the initial clip.
If all else fails you can use cut-aways or a closeup of the reaction person to fill in any time issues.
Maybe I'm missing something but I had no trouble with this. I assume you filmed the entire thing for both clips. If you only filmed the reaction guys line you'd have a lot more trouble.
RJSchwarz
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