J/L Cuts on the script | Voters

J/L Cuts on the script

under consideration

Pranav Vishnu

Ability to perform J/L cuts by offsetting audio and video on the script.

May 27, 2022

Egil Sandfeld

It's crazy something like this hasn't been implemented yet, despite their blogging department have multiple articles about J cuts and L cuts.

My approach to make a L Cut using scenes "A" and "B":

Extend scene B backwards in time to create the visual overlap and space for audio from scene A
Split scene "A" into A1 and A2 from where the audio from scene A should overlap
Right-click the video layer in scene A2 and cut
Paste into start of scene B and adjust audio volume, disable video layer in Opacity
Remove the newly created scene A2, leaving you with a shorter A, and a longer B including the audio from A

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J Cuts approach:

Extend scene A forward in time to create space for audio from scene B
Split scene B into B1 and B2 from where the audio should end the overlap
Right-click the video layer in scene B1 and cut
Paste into end of scene A and adjust audio volume, disable video layer in Opacity
Remove the newly created scene B1, leaving you with a elongated A including the audio from B, and a shorter B

Let me know if this can be improved

Kenneth Franceschi

How is this still not implemented? It's been under consideration for 2 years!? I've tried time and time again to keep using Descript.
You have a "creator" plan yet no basic editing cuts a creator would need. Literally any video editor can do this.. (And many of them now have great text based editing so this needs addressing)
Currently I'm using descript to curate the content (like a word doc) and then doing some basic edits and then exporting as an xml. I then do the rest of the work elsewhere. The problem is that Then I have to export it in my other editor and then reimport it to descript to do captions etc
This workflow leads to so many different video files and is so convoluted.
With other editors now implementing text-based editing, I'm really considering canceling my descript subscription, because it now usus more time than it saves.
I want to love Descript but with constant crashing and long load times when I do things like audio level adjustments etc It's just become a pain.
Talking head videos do not look natural or smooth with simple cuts. You need J cuts. 
Putting so much time and energy toward AI driven features is a total waste if you haven't even included the editing basics first.

Raygan Kelly

This is something I've struggled with coming from other editors. I value the script editing but any kind of complex edit requires bending over backwards through the sequence editor and hoping for the best.

Joel Rendall

I definitely need this too, hoping it is praying it's promoted from the "under consideration" status :P

Dee Copeland Patience

I also need this. I haven't been able to get this to work and want my videos to be more dynamic.

Alex

I think an awesome and easy way to do this would be how we make cuts in the script now:
/ - normal cut
/J/ - J cut
/L/ - L cut

Brett Goodrich

I absolutely need to be able to do these kind of cuts as well. Is it happening?

Derek Van Tonder

This is kind of a big deal, today I wanted to do a J cut but couldn't figure out a way to do it with Storyboard.

Pranav Vishnu

marked this post as

under consideration