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Adding an L-cut
Now that you’ve unlinked the center clip, adding an L-cut at the end of this seg-
ment will take only a few steps:
1
Click the Rolling Edit tool in the Tools panel, or press N on your keyboard. Grab 
the link between the second and third clips, and drag it to the left about one 
second. When you’re done, click V on your keyboard to restore the selection 
pointer. You’ve now created an L-cut.
2
Create a fade-in of the third audio clip to gradually fade in the bike audio over 
the end of the interview from the second clip.
3
Add a video Cross Dissolve effect between the video portions of all three clips. 
Make them about four frames long, which is just long enough to soften the cut 
between the three videos.
4
Play that L-cut.
The hero’s dialogue should fade up beneath the director’s closing comment.

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LESSON 12
Acquiring and Editing Audio
Review questions
1
When you set up a voice-recording space in the corner of a room, which way do you 
face to voice the narration, and why?
2
When you videotape indoors, your audio has a “tin can” quality. What’s going on?
3
Explain three ways to start your piece by fading up your audio.
4
How is applying the Normalize filter in Adobe Premiere Pro different from just raising 
the volume?
5
Why use a J-cut or an L-cut?
6
You have a quiet video clip, but in the middle someone honks a car horn. How can 
you remove that sound and replace it with the original quiet background of the 
original clip?

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ADOBE PREMIERE PRO CS5 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK