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December 11, 2007

Then the Little Scissors

Once the Big Scissors have done their worst, heh heh, and the cutting room floor is awash with unwanted scenes, like a stripper’s clothes strewn across a dirty stage, you get out the little scissors, snip snip snip.

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BABBLING FOOLS - frame capture

Or rather you get on to the slip, slide, ripple and roll buttons in the edit. You trim a little, you extend a bit, snip, slip, slide, ripple - no, no forget ripple, it fucks up the sync.

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BABBLING FOOLS - frame capture

Fine tuning, taking up the slack, taking out the tolerances. Making it work.

Posted by john at December 11, 2007 10:29 AM

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