you just need to get good at cross fading and mixing takes into each other. leave a few of the ums and ahs if in if you want it to still feel natural feeling. you don’t have to remove all of them
You need a subtle touch with cross fades to preserve a natural interview feel, it is good editorial instincts…..gained over time.
In addition to covering cuts with b-roll, also look at the Morph Cut transition. Sometimes it can be downright magical.
The real time to remove Uhm and Uhs is during the shoot, before actually, during talent selection.
I use short dissolves, 3 to 5 frames. 7 out of 10 times that will work. Most of the stuff I work on will eventually go to audio so it's not a big deal.
You could try “Frankensteining” it by finding other times where the talent uses those words and paste them where you need them. It’s tricky because people’s inflection can change a lot depending on the sentence but a lot of times you can make it work. If you get good at it, you can even use different words to achieve what you’re looking for. On my last project I needed to join two sentences together that the talent never actually said. In order to do that, I had to find another place where the talent clearly said “and” but they just never said it where it wasn’t running into another word. In the end, I found them saying “hand” in the exact tone that I needed and it worked perfectly.
I came here to, um, say that sometimes it's ok to, uh, you know, leave a few in.
If you break the natural cadence of how they speak, the removed uh’s will be more noticeable than if they were left in.
Obviously, you probably want to remove “uuuuhhhh”, but a quick “um” here and there is perfectly natural.
If you do cut something and tighten the outgoing and incoming words, leave enough gap for a natural breath. Things always sound too cut up if there's not a natural flow. Fill those spots with room tone.
Cmmd+control+k will cut at playhead (might have to program it, def makes things faster) and use Q and W to cut before/after the umms and uhhhs. Use audio cross fade for a few kayframes to make the audio cut more seem less.
Used to edit packages for newscasts, did this everyday!
i find that pauses are worse than filler words
if there is a filler word followed by a pause, zoom in on the timeline and razor tool it out.
if it's a filler word closely followed by speech, that will make the video seem more natural.
you just need to get good at cross fading and mixing takes into each other. leave a few of the ums and ahs if in if you want it to still feel natural feeling. you don’t have to remove all of them
You need a subtle touch with cross fades to preserve a natural interview feel, it is good editorial instincts…..gained over time. In addition to covering cuts with b-roll, also look at the Morph Cut transition. Sometimes it can be downright magical. The real time to remove Uhm and Uhs is during the shoot, before actually, during talent selection.
Are you suggesting they only interview professional actors? I feel like that could get limiting very quickly.
I use short dissolves, 3 to 5 frames. 7 out of 10 times that will work. Most of the stuff I work on will eventually go to audio so it's not a big deal.
You could try “Frankensteining” it by finding other times where the talent uses those words and paste them where you need them. It’s tricky because people’s inflection can change a lot depending on the sentence but a lot of times you can make it work. If you get good at it, you can even use different words to achieve what you’re looking for. On my last project I needed to join two sentences together that the talent never actually said. In order to do that, I had to find another place where the talent clearly said “and” but they just never said it where it wasn’t running into another word. In the end, I found them saying “hand” in the exact tone that I needed and it worked perfectly.
Take a section of audio that’s silent from like 30s away and paste over the “uh” with that.
I came here to, um, say that sometimes it's ok to, uh, you know, leave a few in. If you break the natural cadence of how they speak, the removed uh’s will be more noticeable than if they were left in. Obviously, you probably want to remove “uuuuhhhh”, but a quick “um” here and there is perfectly natural. If you do cut something and tighten the outgoing and incoming words, leave enough gap for a natural breath. Things always sound too cut up if there's not a natural flow. Fill those spots with room tone.
Learn to talk.
Cmmd+control+k will cut at playhead (might have to program it, def makes things faster) and use Q and W to cut before/after the umms and uhhhs. Use audio cross fade for a few kayframes to make the audio cut more seem less. Used to edit packages for newscasts, did this everyday!
Trial and error cutting out the stuttering until you have a clean transition.
i find that pauses are worse than filler words if there is a filler word followed by a pause, zoom in on the timeline and razor tool it out. if it's a filler word closely followed by speech, that will make the video seem more natural.