Documentary Scene Editing | Breaking Down B-Roll & A-Roll | Music & Sound Design

In this video we look at a few techniques to breakdown B-Roll footage down and create a documentary scene along with A-Roll sync, Music and Sound Design.
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========== Chapters ==========
00:00 - Introduction to Scene Editing
00:38 - Project Overview
02:15 - Breaking Down B-Roll - Workflow
10:05 - Decompressing A-Roll Sync
14:35 - Paint in B-Roll over A-Roll Sync - Forming a cutting tempo
20:52 - Polishing the A-Roll and B-Roll rough cut
29:12 - Using Music to strengthen the scene and craft emotion
39:23 - Add Sound Design
46:30 - Final Result
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[@lennonlaw17]

A 47 minutes well spent watching this. Great sharing and thank you.

[@eduardsiebert4645]

Thank you so much. I made so much notes. Insert videos from the different categories into the different timelines and then select and cut out the good material. Keep cutting until you have less material. Duplicate the timelines after which you want to take the next step and sort out more. Then you can still go back in the end and see what you might want to have inside. • With him, this is still the case that if he has the same scene inside twice, he sees colors in the timeline and sees exactly which place is meant. • After that, he adds the sorted out B-rolls to the timeline with the interviews or the story and can then place them over the story. • X to cut and z to paste. Another command possibly (a? With me Y) to select everything and then with shift and . (or other command possibly right and left arrow ) to create a pause or gap. • With shift j or shift l, does he go to the beginning or end of the next or last video? • Create a hook where you make the viewer exciting about the upcoming video and try to create a story. Take out something exciting and do it at the beginning. Then between intro and story longer break. • His camera angles are different but very fresh. • At the end of the story or the interview, you can still show the reaction and just remove the tone. • After you have cut the B-Roll, go through the story again, i.e. the A-Roll and do not have the B-Roll displayed to identify and display good moments from the A-Roll. This will give you more energy. • Leave breaks in the conversation. Don't rush it. If you have cut the story well and put the B-roll over it, then you have a rough cut. You can also mute the original audio to see how it would sound. • Leave the original audio to sort out inside so that you get an idea of what you can use for sounds, in sound design. Cut so far that it sounds good before you put music in. • Make J-cuts. Audio before the video can be seen. This means that the B-Roll is longer, for example. • With your pace, you can create the story in the video. Deal with it carefully • When you're done with it, you can duplicate the timeline again and then continue with the audio. And the sound design. • With the music you undermin the mood. So if it gets more exciting, for example, then make tension with the music. Cut it to size or change it. • He deals with the music as with other clips. They do not always have to have the same order but can be moved around (i.e. in the music itself. Pieces from the same music) and thus reinforce the story. • Work with Beats. Also leave breaks between the music to "amplify" something and cut with J Cuts but also on the beat. • By putting the music in only at the end, he can control the emotions and it is not already predetermined by the music. • For the sound design, he uses a plugin called Soundly. There you can search for the sounds and insert it directly. • In the Edit Index, you can move and rename the tracks. For example, call it Music and Audio Scratch and Sounds, Ambience or something. Mute everything and listen to the audio. So if the interview or the story can be heard the A-Roll, then remove the Ambience Sounds. • For the B-Rolls he takes the one Voegel Sounds and for the A-Rolls other Voegel Sounds. • He renames all tracks so that he has it easier in audio editing. • First Ambience (bird chirping, for example, and then the other sounds. • After that, other sounds that are in the Video really happen. In his example matchbox, fire flames, Whoosh (crispy and smooth)

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Great summary mate!

[@BihnDan]

Awesome addition to your Master Class. I watched this at pub over a beer. If you do beer, have one on me (or coffee or whatever). Thanks!

[@SUYA.]

kept falling back to the habit of editing to the music rather than editing with music, this vid helped me a ton.

[@MikePearcePhoto]

A really useful and interesting tutorial. Nicely paced and clearly explained. Thank you.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Thanks Mike, Glad it was helpful!

[@hughesieNZ]

Your videos are so freaking helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to create these. I am learning an absolute tonne. Nice to hear a kiwi accent too :) A taste of home!

[@almanages]

One of the best real time editing I've seen so far. Good job! And thank you for taking the time to produce it.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Thanks for this! Glad it was helpful, cheers.

[@dkkeyz8815]

You are a champ! Thank you for these lessons and allowing us to watch your workflow!!

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Thanks for watching!

[@jwvisionz]

1:29 totally thought he said “when I fell in love with cocaine” 😂

[@BenuthBasnet]

I always want to know how creators edit. This is so helpful, thank you soooo much.

[@TiagoLiko]

This is the closest workflow I’ve seen anyone on KZbin do with mine. Except the scenes timeline. After the “scene comp” I start editing an audio edit, with music and all the pauses etc- and only after I start adding the broll and refine. This was interesting! Thanks for sharing

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

No problem, thanks for the watch!

[@kogamavfx]

definitely the most valuable content out there for video editors, thank you so much 💓

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Cheers for that!

[@melvinesmith]

Brilliant, simply brilliant! Loved the video...looking forward to trying this out.

[@UdoSchloegl]

Thank you for this lesson. The way you organise clips and timelines and link A-roll and B-roll is a completely different approach to what I have done before. I will now also try this way.

[@christianduprez4161]

Man, thank you for this video. Incredibly informative and helpful, as a self-taught editor myself its been extremely hard to find edit breakdowns and tutorials from professionals that are producing work of a high caliber. I hope to see more in the near future!

[@nathanabrahams5305]

This was awesome. Very valuable content for editors out there. Well done explaining it so succinctly.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Thanks so much!

[@juricavidakovic2762]

This is si such a great video with insight to someone's work as editor and it deserve much praise. Very unique type of video with so much value. Thank you for sharing. I hope that this chanel will grow because you definitely deserve it.

[@glennalexandergeraedts]

Keep it up with these kind of video's! Really love them, I learn so much from it! Hope to see more in the future

[@elgiad007]

I found this video incredibly informative and a great guide to get me started. Thanks!

[@akaBoG]

I need to up my game. Did all my editing training in 2000. Been doing all the editing for the Colorado Railroad Museum for the last few years.

[@jhonesreece4946]

Again more tutorial on DaVinci résolve 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@zongmuas]

its kind of amazing and reassuring to know that my process of editing is very similar to someone of your caliber. Makes me feel like im doing something right. Loving the content man!

[@scotey]

Can't wait to watch this tomorrow! A bit too late to start tonight.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Definitely thought of your last comment when making this one!

[@Mahfuzul-Hasan-Abir]

thanks for aonther video

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

You're welcome :-)

[@nathanabrahams5305]

Can you do a video showing us how you have your keyboard customisations (shortcuts) set up for faster editing?

[@eduardsiebert4645]

yes Josh, this would be Great.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Here is a download for my shortcuts: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnIpptvnKyVbZYsi=MXhq9labmTqVg3Rp

[@DavidJonesImages]

That was great, thanks.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

You're welcome!

[@flochfitness]

awesome work! This is VERY helpful. Would love to see your video on sound mixing in DR. Cheers!

[@jeastmon]

Like watching an episode of painting with Bob Ross. It looks so easy but somehow my palette looks all brown. Anyway, VERY inspiring and a technique I’ll certainly try.

[@mcewan-media]

amazing tutorial, really good. thanks

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Thanks for watching.

[@pietervanderwal]

Thank you for making this great content! I can't find the plugin you mentioned at 39:23. Also subscribed.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Hey mate, the software is called Soundly. You can find it at getsoundly.com

[@pietervanderwal]

Thank you. @@JoshuaKirkNZ

[@favorittfilms3349]

Thank you

[@kaminskybrothers]

Thank you.

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

No worries.

[@EdwardKilner]

Excellent. Liked. If I can get that good, ever, I doubt I would continue refining, simply because I really wouldn’t know the art of doing so. Very impressive. Great results. I’m inspired, so thank you. I was intrigued to see graphics per keystroke as you worked. Clever. How? My speculation is you are using something like OBS and there is some feature I never knew that “transcribed” keystrokes. Or ???.

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

Is there any reason why you don't use the cut page to do the trimming down things like the Stringouts? By using this page you do not need to make a stringout timeline as you can view all the footage in each folder as a string of shots which can then be added to the breakdown timeline. As an Ex- film editor I always look upon the cut page as the place to do the rough assembly which when working on broadcast film programmes I always did. Firstly I would take out all the usable shots and hang them in a bin in the rough order I would use them. Next I would assemble these into a the first rough cut trimming them down to the approximate length I needed and tape joining them. From then I would start refining the edit working towards the final cut. The cut page therefore seems to be the ideal page to do a lot of this work before moving to the edit page to start refining the edit.

[@kool4209]

you can make all your cuts on the main timeline....... there other sections are just for "select" groupings

[@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker]

@@kool4209 I realise that but in using the cut page you don’t have to make a timeline with all the clips in it as DaVinci does that for you in effect by allowing you to see all the clips in a folder or the complete project anyway. You then from this drop the clips and the parts of clips you want into a select timeline on the cut page.

[@johnaryan2]

I was wondering the same. Using the source tape is a great way to bring in the best of each clip before dropping it all in the timeline. Or if not truly the "best of", at least something closer to a "select"....and then you can just hop from one clip to the other in rapid fashion. Pair this with BMD's Speed Editor and it's not only fast, but it gives you lots of ways to go at it ergonomically. That said, I did learn a thing or two about organization (and going at it scene by scene on separate timelines) that I'm going to try out. @@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker

[@kool4209]

Nah I got what you meant, I just always worked on the mainline unless I was masking or tracking. @@DaveKnowlesFilmmaker

[@eduardsiebert4645]

Is there any was to get your Keyboard Customization?

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Hey I have just updated the download link with this video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYnIpptvnKyVbZYsi=MXhq9labmTqVg3Rp

[@LeoPetri]

That was awesome, Joshua! Thanks for sharing the entire workflow. I was super excited when I saw it was released (it helps me a ton). I have a quick question: at what point in the workflow of this scene would you have moved on to creating the next scene? Would this have been after integrating the music, and then leaving sound design for the end? How is this workflow affected when you are creating and mixing up all scenes together?

[@enricovezzu]

4:33 is it possible to automatically cut the part of the clips that you have marked?

[@maicovimuto6341]

Loved this breakdown Joshua! Didn't know about duplicate frames yet. Little question about a different small detail, which little app/plugin do you use to show your keybinds on your mac?

[@ahmetbaykara.mp3]

I know this comment is not related to the video but..... Focusrite Scarlett on the desk is just beautiful 🥰⚫️🔴🔥

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

😁

[@rdstudios-production]

@5:00 is the bar over the clip that has been re-used automatically generated? Is this an 18.5 new feature or did you manually create a marker range there? Great video by the way - super comprehensive!

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Hey, yes these are automatically generated. Under the ‘View’ menu you can check ‘Show Duplicate Frames’ which highlights any duplicate frames in the timeline.

[@rdstudios-production]

this is a lifesaver. @@JoshuaKirkNZ

[@skofjanbejta4103]

how do you enable the duplicate clip marker feature ?

[@brokeforever]

View > Show Duplicate Frames

[@johnaryan2]

Maybe next time, put the circle you're in, on the other side of the screen so we can better see what's happening in the upper left corner of the edit.🙏

[@mattiacallian]

I’d like to see AI doing this… amazing thank you for sharing!

[@JoshuaKirkNZ]

Hmmm it may not be long 🤷 I don’t know?