86 Video Production Handbook directors must simplify. the more complex the subject, the easier each stage should be. if the density of information or the rate at which it is delivered is too high, it will confuse, bewilder, or encourage the audience to switch it off-- mentally if not physically. 5.9 RELATIVE PACE As sequences are edited together, editors find that video images and the soundtrack have their own natural pace. that pace may be slow and leisurely, medium, fast, or brief. if editors are fortunate, the pace of the picture and the sound will be roughly the same. However, there will be occasions when editors find that they do not have enough images to fit the sound sequence or do not have enough soundtrack to put behind the amount of action in the picture. often when the talent has explained a point (perhaps taking 5 seconds), the picture is still showing the action (perhaps 20 seconds). the picture or action needs to finish before the commentary can move on to the next point. in the script, a little dialog may go a long way, as a series of interjections rather than a continual flow of verbiage.