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Post #760589

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brash_stryker
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JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit: turning a mediocre trilogy into one really good film (Released)
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Date created
1-Apr-2015, 4:25 PM

I've started watching it, and I can see you've made a few of the same editing choices as I have. If I could offer some constructive criticism though, your audio cuts need a lot of work to not be jarring. When moving from one piece of music to another, the key is finding the right transition point. Transition in the wrong place, or between completely different pieces of music, and your fade ends up sounding like just that....a fade. And one where you can hear both pieces of music at the same time, which is jarring. Ideally you want it to sound like one seamless piece of music otherwise it's going to pull people out of the movie.

This is best accomplished by listening to both pieces of music and trying to find a point in both where the section might act as a bridge to the other piece. It might be a similar note in both (with the same instruments of course) or a percussive section that you can overlay over the end of the first piece so that it sounds like the orchestra is actually going into a different movement.