07 - Sample Story

About this video

This lesson builds a short sample story, ‘Getting Sweet with Sam,’ about making banana split sundaes and ice cream cookie sandwiches, to practice editing basics. The instructor clears the timeline, adds Camera A clip 101, and trims silence at the start — about 36 seconds in — using Q to cut the head, W to cut the tail, and Shift Z to zoom, then refines cuts by enlarging audio waveforms to see where talking starts and stops. Because the camera-mic audio plays in only one ear, he selects the clip, opens Audio in the details panel, enables Channels, and chooses ‘fill right with left’ so voice plays in both ears. The footage was shot in log and looks gray and washed out, so in the Adjustment tab he raises contrast and saturation as a temporary fix, noting LUTs are the proper method to be covered later. He adds B-roll on a track above the main clip — replacing clip 102 with 104 for the banana split and timing it to the narration, then adding a cookie shot — and times each overlay to the spoken words. To avoid repeating color work, he shows Apply to All from a corrected clip, saving the correction as a preset, and dragging that preset in as an adjustment layer that affects everything underneath it — warning not to double-apply it to already-corrected clips — then stretches and locks the adjustment track using the lock icon, with the eyeball toggling visibility.

Key takeaways

• Trim with Q for the head, W for the tail, and Shift Z to zoom; enlarge clip waveforms to cut precisely at speech boundaries
• Fix single-ear audio in Audio > Channels by enabling Channels and selecting ‘fill right with left’
• Log footage looks gray because it preserves image information; a temporary boost to contrast and saturation makes it viewable while editing, with LUTs covered later
• Place B-roll on a layer above the main clip and time it to the narration, e.g. showing the banana split when Sam names it
• Reuse color correction via Apply to All, a saved preset, or an adjustment layer over all clips — but do not stack the same correction twice

Episode details: published January 7, 2026 · 15:02 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Kevin Stratvert’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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