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Where should cuts fall in a dialogue scene (line boundaries, reaction, overlap) and how are rolled edits and split edits used to create cutting points?

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Only one inspected source describes dialogue cutting points in procedure form: the Wikibooks Movie Making Manual 'Scene Editing' page (revid 4341818, community text). It says a rough cut that follows each speaker looks like a tennis match, and recommends locking the dialogue audio and rolling the picture edit forward to show the first speaker's reaction or backward to show the next speaker's anticipation (the L cut / J cut), with the gap between lines the only adjustable audio element. Leake et al. place one cut decision per dialogue line. The OER textbooks give no cutting-point rule; early manuals time a title to the utterance. Curator qualifications: Community text: following each speaker gives a tennis-match rough cut; recommends locking dialogue audio and rolling picture edits (excerpts located in producer copy). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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[sourced_fact] Only one inspected source describes dialogue cutting points in procedure form: the Wikibooks Movie Making Manual 'Scene Editing' page (revid 4341818, community text). It says a rough cut that follows each speaker looks like a tennis match, and recommends locking the dialogue audio and rolling the picture edit forward to show the first speaker's reaction or backward to show the next speaker's anticipation (the L cut / J cut), with the gap between lines the only adjustable audio element. Leake et al. place one cut decision per dialogue line. The OER textbooks give no cutting-point rule; early manuals time a title to the utterance. · locator: Wikibooks API revisions query source

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