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Click to EnlargeBasic Training: Tricks for J and L Cuts
So ... you now know how to shoot video, light a scene, direct actors - you even know how to write up a model release. What's the next tool that can add extra life to your productions and carry you just that much higher in your video producing realm?
I've often thought that I'd be happy with an editing software package that did titles, dissolves, multiple audio channels, J and L cuts and nothing else. I don't need barn door wipes, and I can get by without nested timelines, but I need my J and L cuts. Wait - you've never heard of J and L cuts?! Nobody in this room? If they're so important, you may ask, why don't more people know about them?
Before we had access to all of these computerized editing software programs, often called non-linear editors or NLE for short, nobody called this style of transitioning J and L cuts - these monikers only make sense if you're looking at these cuts on a timeline on a computer screen. In ye olden days, they were called "audio advance" or "video advance" cuts - an audio advance cut means that the audio starts before the video; a video advance is the other way around. On an NLE screen, they sort of (but not really) look like the letters J (audio advance) and L (video advan…
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