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>Is anyone else really annoyed by the constant cuts in videos these days? [...], so I could imagine there are a lot of "re-takes" + cutting out of "umms" I agr
by jasode 4y ago
>Is anyone else really annoyed by the constant cuts in videos these days? [...], so I could imagine there are a lot of "re-takes" + cutting out of "umms"
I agree it's jarring but I understand why it often happens: it's easier and faster to fix a vocal mistake by backing up just a sentence or two and then re-record from there. So it's not always just removing the pauses; he/she actually fixed a speech mistake in that sentence and had to splice it in.
The alternative to avoid jarring cuts is to record longer takes of reading paragraph-length word counts without a mistake. This is much more difficult and time-consuming. So if you're trying to speak 10 good sentences and you flub sentence #10, you have to start all over at sentence #1 to maintain one continuous take. Otherwise, you'd have a jarring cut between sentence #9 and #10. E.g. you can see the bloopers outtakes at the end of each Technology Connections video to see that even reading from a script without mistakes is not easy.
- geerlingguy 4y agoJump cuts, as they're called, can also be covered over by judicious use of b-roll and other supporting material. But again, like longer reads, it takes more time/work. So a lot of channels just leave the raw jump cuts.
- justincormack 4y agoThe other way to do this is to move to another camera angle which hides the cuts, although you certainly don't want to do this if the cuts are very short like the ones in the example on teh website. Recording 4k footage you can cut multiple HD "angles" out of it, eg zooms which you can use instead of multiple cameras.
- yieldcrv 4y agoAnd by pre-splicing with this software it is telling you where to put the b-roll in, saving loads of time!