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Editing advice: continue scene after freeze-frame or not?
Please look at this 30 second clip with two types of editing strategies:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dl6x4pgVe1YWhen making a video clip freeze a frame, to “capture a moment”… is there a wrong or right as to what to do immediately after the frozen frame… to “unfreeze” the frame and continue the clip, or to have the clip jump to the next scene?
You can see both ways in the clip above.
Thank you.
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I don’t think there is a wrong or right. Whatever appeals more to you or your spectators is the best way. Had you published the same scene in the two variants I could have given you my personal preference, but they were quite different scenes, so I find it hard to comment.
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That’s Ok. Just by your answer: “I don’t think there is a wrong or right. Whatever appeals more to you or your spectators is the best way.”, that gives me the answer I was looking for.
Just that someone had once told me that it was wrong to continue a scene and I had it hard to bealive that this was a rock solid rule of editing. I guess that was a one man opinion.
Thanks!
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I have encountered many people who, in their infinite wisdom, think that they can determine what YOU LIKE. NO WAY, you decide what you like and if it does not appeal to me, just my bad luck. There are no fixed rules for video editing. YOU decide what you like, edit accordingly and ultimately, if the spectators like it too, you get an Oscar.
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Well, some might say that there are some kind of rules to professional editing. For example, if you use 20 different kinds of transitions in a clip, that might be cool, but would be very amature and not professional.
If you have a few zoom in and outs on one continuous shot, that might be the way most people film family video (non-professional filmers of course), but would not meet the professional standards.
Of course many editing techniques (I would even say most of them) are up to you and your liking. But there still are some basic rules that I read lots about that define the line between amature and professional.
So that’s what I meant when I asked “if it’s right or wrong”… I was asking if it was steping into the world of professionalism and you gave me a good answer.
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I like using After Effects to slow down the clip in a hurry, freeze, and then quickly resume speed. The time remapping function is decent for this.
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AE’s time-mapping is a more sophisticated tool, especially on
action shots like the one you exampled at U2B. There are
some excellent tutorials scattered CC to do with using time-
mapping.Adobe says that time-mapping will possible with PProCS3
https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/slowmotion/Darren.
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