Hide Jump Cuts Like a PRO

Premiere Pro tutorial on hiding jump cuts using zoom reframing, second camera angles, b-roll, graphics, motion blur, and audio fades. Sponsored by Envato.

Key Takeaways

Shoot in 4K wide shots to give yourself room to zoom and reframe during editing.
Combine visual techniques (zoom, second angle, b-roll, graphics, motion blur) with audio smoothing for best results.
Avoid overusing transitions and effects; the goal is an invisible edit that doesn't draw attention to itself.
Pre-planning (second camera, scripting for one take) reduces the need for post-production fixes.

What the video covers

Jump cuts are common in online video but can be jarring, so the ideal is to get points across in one solid take when possible.
Zooming in on a clip via Effect Controls (scale and reposition) hides a jump cut, ideally using 4K wide-shot footage for room to crop.
Adding a second camera angle lets the editor cut between two synced angles by toggling layers with Shift+E.
Multicamera sequences are suggested when working with three or more camera angles.
Transitions and zooms can cover cuts, but adding them at every cut looks bad.
B-roll placed just before a jump cut makes the edit less noticeable and keeps it relevant to the spoken content.
Audio fade handles can smooth the transition between two clips at a jump cut.
Adjustment layers with Gaussian blur, black solids, and cross dissolves can hide cuts behind animated graphics.
Motion blur applied via an adjustment layer and a Transform effect can mask a cut point, with ease-in/ease-out keyframes.
Audio tips include avoiding abrupt waveform breaks, clicks, and volume shifts at cut points, and syncing sound effects to cuts.

Chapters

How can a jump cut be hidden by zooming in?

Select the clip in Premiere Pro, go to Effect Controls, and scale it up so the zoom makes the jump cut less noticeable. Shooting in 4K wide gives more room to crop and reposition without losing quality.

Why should b-roll be placed before a jump cut rather than at the same time?

Placing b-roll right before the cut means the audio jump is less noticeable because the viewer's attention is on the visual change. Cutting to b-roll at the same moment as an audio jump can make the edit feel more like a cut.

What audio problems can occur at jump cuts and how are they handled?

Cuts can create clicks, pops, and volume shifts, especially where a quiet sentence ends and a louder one begins. The video suggests using audio fade handles to smooth transitions and adjusting volume to match.

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continuous shot causing the subject to abruptly move this is often used to communicate time passing in films which you've probably seen a time lapse of somebody moving around just intercut with different jump Cuts but it's also used all the time in YouTube and social

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media cuz it's a great way for Content creators to edit out the fluff in the ums and the US to get your points across faster and you see jump Cuts all the time maybe when you don't even realize

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it it's a really common technique especially in the last 10 years of social video but when you're seeing way too many jump cuts it can be jarring to the viewer right this is why I always encourage you to try to get your point

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across in one solid take but with the nature of filming online content sometimes jump cuts are unavoidable so here are some ways that you can hide them let's start with the oldest trick in the book which is faking a second

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angle or what I like to call reframing the shot it sounds fancy but in Premiere Pro all we have to do is select one of the clips here and then we go to effect controls and just scale it up when we

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play the zoom in will make the jump cut a lot less noticeable and for this to look better I recommend shooting your main angle in a wide shot and in a 4K resolution so you have more space to

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work with so this is pretty simple right but we can take it a step further here by selecting the zoomed clip and repositioning the footage so maybe you want to move the subject to the right or to the left slightly in the frame

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instead of just zooming into the middle this will give us some more variety especially if we have some more jump Cuts happening but remember you want to do this with the right amount of tact and feeling you don't want to overdo it

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and make the viewer dizzy unless that's the intent but I've always said let's fix it in Pre and not fix it in post even though I'm a video editor and if you know that a talking head video is going to have some

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jump Cuts set up a second camera angle like I have right here so that way you have another shot to cut to when you have a jump cut so in Premiere Pro once we've got the two angles synced up in

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the timeline we're going to make the necessary cuts and now we can select the top footage and press shift e to disable it to make the layer below visible so you can cut back and forth between these two angles and you can say goodbye to

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any jump Cuts you can also switch to two different angles using a multicamera sequence if you want to but if you only have two angles that you're working with it's easy enough to just make cuts and disable and reenable those layers but if

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you're working with you know three plus camera angles you might want to consider creating a multi- camera sequence if zooming in or having an entirely different camera angle isn't enough you might want to consider just covering up the gump cut but how do we do that one

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way to cover it up is to add a little transition and a little bit of a zoom afterwards to make it feel a little different but remember if you have a bunch of different jump Cuts you don't want to add a transition at every single

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cut cuz it's just not going to look good so a good way to hide multiple jump Cuts in one go is adding b-roll it could be cutting away to shots that you filmed yourself or you could cover it up with

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stock footage from sites like invat but make sure the b-roll is actually related to what's being said so if you're talking about cats you're not going to be showing dogs right unless you want to be ironic or something like that after

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all it's your video so a great tip that I have for placing b-roll on your footage is to place the b-roll before the jump cut happens so the cut isn't as noticeable for example if we were going to place the b-roll at the same time as

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the cut the audio jumping from one sentence to another combin with cutting to the b-roll will make it feel more like a cut remember you want the editing to feel invisible not to call attention to itself but if the B- roll comes right

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before it's harder to tell if there were any Cuts in the dialogue and overall making a more smooth viewing experience another quick tip here if you have a jump cut you can click on this little audio fade handle and drag it between

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the two clips just to make that cut a little bit smoother and I'll show you some more audio tricks you can do to cover jump Cuts later on another way to cover up a jump Cut Is by hiding them in

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plain sight what I mean is distracting your viewer and by distracting I mean adding some sort of graphic animation on top of your footage so the viewers can't even see the jump cut so if I play it now with this title animation the jump

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cut is still visible but what we can do here is click on this new item button under the project panel and create a new adjustment layer and then we can place it on top of our footage but underneath

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the graphic and here we can add a gausian blur to it so then we can key frame this blur to go from zero to let's say 50 and then we can animate it from 50 to zero as the graphic animates out

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so the blurriness is just following the animation let's also create a black solid and let's place it on top of the adjustment layer but of course beneath the graphic and then we can go to effect controls again and let's lower the

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opacity just a bit to darken our footage underneath so that way it's even more h in so with the black video selected let's press shift d and add a cross dissolve on both ends of it and then we

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can push in these handles here so that way it's a little bit more shortened so it comes in as the same speed as the blur and finally of course let's add a little cross dissolve to the jump cut

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itself and if I hit play you don't even notice that a cut was there now obviously this won't work as well if the subject you're filming moves drastically from one shot to the other so it really only works well if the movement is

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subtle so as we always say not one thing fits all am I right so if you need help hiding or spicing up your video edits in general invat is the place to go so if I find a part in my video edit that I just

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Ramble On for way too long I will go straight to inato to see if I can find stock footage that will help me tell my story for example if I was super cold right now I can easily find some snow overlays

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unlimited downloads of all their assets and there's so many you can't even cover them all you have stuff from stock photos graphic templates all the way to complicated After Effects project templates and trust me trying to create some of these effects yourself can take

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to invat for sponsoring today's video another way to hide jump Cuts in plain sight is by using motion blur like this did you notice that there was a jump cut there to do this in Premiere we'll need our adjustment layer once again and

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place it on top of the cut point we're treating this like a transition so let's make it shorter for now and have the cut point be right in the middle of the adjustment layer then we can add the

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transform effect to it and key frame the scale and position I want it to zoom into my face right when the cut happened so we can rightclick the key frames and make them ease out and ease in so the

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animation feels smoother and then we can bump up that shutter angle don't be shy we want it to get maximum motion blur so once you're happy you can extend out the adjustment layer so that way the footage stays zoomed in after the zoom let's

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also add a short cross disolve on the cut point and if I play it now it looks fine but the jump cut still isn't that well hidden and that's because my face which is in the middle isn't really

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being affected by the motion blur so what we can do is go back to the transform effect here and on the second key frame let's move the position to the right or left so when it zooms in the

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subject gets pushed to the side so playing it now you can see that the jump cut is fully hidden under the motion blur you can also have some sort of graphic slide in from the side here to fill up the empty space at the same time

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as the zoom and this gives purpose to the animation and it also distracts the viewer even more so they can't see the cut at all being an editor is kind of like being a magician right being a master of distraction and we can't

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forget one of the most important parts of an edit audio this is what will glue everything together so with our last example it looked nice but we can make it even better by adding a whoosh sound effect to go along with the animation so

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in our first example here where we just did a simple zoom on the second clip we can also add some dramatic sound effects right at the cut to help emphasize what's being said which goes very well with the zoom we can also mess around

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with the music to have it start or stop at the right cut like this so hiding a jump cut with a simple Zoom can kind of get boring but pairing it with sound effects can make it that much better

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other than sound effects and music we also have to pay attention to the microphone audio as well if you're doing jump cuts on Long dialogue sequences like we do in our videos you want to make sure not to cut in the middle of

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words to help with that let's look at the audio waveform if you don't see it click on the wrench icon and you can enable your audio waveforms here when we make a cut it's best to do it where

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there is a silence to avoid any words abruptly getting cut off but if we're being realistic sometimes we're forced to cut in the middle of a word for example if a viewer says um and then immediately they start talking right

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afterwards um so um like they kind of go together right there's not a break in the waveform so you have to cut between them so what this can do is cause some weird clicks and pops when you pair that

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together with a different cut so that's why once you've cut down your talking footage here it's always important to select all the audio and then you can press shift d to add a very short cross fade on all the audio clips to help

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smooth everything out just like I showed you before but this is the bulk way of doing it when you have a lot of jump Cuts you need to handle so how do you get that short little cross fade you can

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go up to preferences and timeline to change the default duration for audio transition and as you can see I have it only set to two frames so that way I can apply these bulk transitions which I like to do after I'm done with my

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assembly another thing to look out for is Big volume shifts sometimes at the end of your sentence you naturally quiet your voice and then suddenly your next sentence is a lot louder so when it gets cut together the obvious volume shift

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can be even more jarring than the jump cut itself visually right the audio calls attention to it more so it might be worth it to hold control or command and press on this line on the audio track to key frame the volume up or down

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so maybe make the end of this clip a bit louder and then lower the volume at the start of the second clip here so that way it matches it better and if you don't see the line that I was using go

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to the wrench tool and you can enable it a lot of this is very manual but it will pay off by helping hide your jump Cuts more right so there isn't one method to hide all of your jump Cuts but if you

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use a combination of these and have all these skills in your tool belts your edits will overall become better and more interesting so if you want more tutorials that cover basic things like this be sure to give this video a thumbs up and as always

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keep creating better video with gal see you next time bye

Topics:jump cutsPremiere Provideo editingb-rollmotion blurmulticamera editingaudio editingYouTube editing tutorialEnvatoPremiere Gal

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