. Overlapping Sound & Visuals for a Less Mechanical Feel Creating smooth cuts between visuals and audio When you’re editing you will want to overlap sound and video to create a more harmonious and less mechanical sound environment. This is particularly important if you’re going to be shooting with one camera. For example if you are filming a basic dialogue sequence with two people talking, you might shoot a series of OTS shots. You might have one person ask a question and then the other person responding. Instead of editing the sound and video at the same point, it’s often beneficial to keep the audio going from shot 1 slightly longer before introducing the audio from shot 2. This allows you to create a very professional, less mechanical and more flowing conversation between people.   Continue Below... Overlapping sound & visuals Playing two audio files on top of each other Noise reduction       .

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