The Mark of a Great Video Editor

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@the_black_douglas9041
@the_black_douglas9041 6 күн бұрын
35 year veteran editor here, in factual broadcast tv for most of it. All you say is spot on. Learning your NLE is 10% of the skills you need to be successful. To young editors I always say - ask yourself who is this for? What are you trying to say? How will you connect with your audience? …because connecting with them immediately and retaining the connection is crucial to success. I would say also learn about story structure. Read literature, and notice how a great story is told. Emulate that. If you can touch their emotions quickly and not bore or annoy them, your job is done. This is hard, but goes to the earlier qualifier of “who is this for?” Music cuts straight through faster than vision or dialogue, and sets the emotional tone you need, so that they will listen and look. Learn about different sorts of music and how it makes people feel. Try to step out of your own personal taste in music and work out what different sorts of music does to audiences. Yes, there’s cultural differences, but there are also universal rubrics to make your life easier. Talking of sound, use natural sound. And if your camera crew hand you material with badly recorded nat sound, ask them to work out how to get it useable for you for next time, if they can. The cliché is - sound is 50%. I’d say vision is 100%, and sound is 100%, and when it’s all working in a piece, then it’s a beautiful marriage. Ok, I could go on. But thanks for speaking up for the importance of editing ❤
@ursula868
@ursula868 6 күн бұрын
This is sound advice. I think reading books is more helpful to editors than watching films, personally. My only words of warning regarding all of the above, is to be careful your editing doesn't become soulless. In a way, editing can be described as emotional manipulation. There is a formula, so to speak, that works to manipulate people into feeling how you want then to feel, music absolutely is the fastest way to do this. My parents are both classical musicians! But you can fall into a trap of soulless creation, which is what I experience when I watch a lot of Netflix content, particularly their documentaries. Or even any mass produced content, for that matter. You can poke all the right switches, but you need to infuse some of your soul into the work.
@cfpc1
@cfpc1 5 күн бұрын
Hi, I'm new here. It's great to see people talking about editing! I've been an editor for the last 15 years, and I think what you're saying is exactly what people starting their careers now need to hear. I'm from Brazil and usually work with documentaries. I always tell everyone that a story is like a puzzle-you don’t know what the final image will look like. Every editor would create a different image, and it would be unique to them. Thanks for the content!
@RumiSleem
@RumiSleem 5 күн бұрын
I always compare editing to cooking haha! everyone uses the same pans but its the chef that makes the food good.
@Zyrk01
@Zyrk01 3 күн бұрын
Thank you for sharing. Specially as a young editor we get swamped with all this fancy editing transitions that can be a visual clutter most of the time. Really good points here and the comments seems to echo your points.
@ursula868
@ursula868 6 күн бұрын
I appreciate this video, thanks for making it! There are few videos on KZbin specific to the art of editing. Everything you said rings true, although I would add a very important additional point, which is the most important, in my experience - and that's story. I'm a documentary editor and some films have a clear story, but some don't. Documentary tends to go in its own direction once you start filming real world content and following people in their day to day lives. I'm working on two docs right now that are vastly different to each other. One has a clear, chronological progression with the characters that is beautifully straight forward. The other has been a monumental effort to find the hook and create a compelling story. Even though the footage is emotional and character driven, there are lots of characters and they don't exactly connect. So I would say the art is also about piecing all the ingredients together in a way that is presentable yes, but also captivating and takes people on a journey from beginning to end. It does seem like a really simple concept, taking clips that make sense with other clips, building a foundation, having a beginning, middle and end. But the artist takes that simple concept to a whole new level. Say your director wants more suspense, maybe you start moving things around in a way to keep the audience guessing, that breaks the chronology. There's such unlimited potential, as you say, but I really think the key is finding the most impactful way to tell a story and connect with an audience. I have about 40 different timelines of one project right now, working on different scenes and trying different things with them to see what is most impactful. If one idea doesn't work well, I still have the original in a separate timeline. Ultimately, our job as editors is to create something that doesn't yet exist. The footage does, but the film doesn't. As long as you put in the hours, watch the footage, and always strive for the most impactful and authentic film, you will succeed.
@filipmichalsaffray441
@filipmichalsaffray441 6 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 Hi all good in your video exept Premiere...switch to Resolve in 2020 never looked back... Adobe enslaving people with Abo system is like a vampire, or drug user once in the system it is very hard to leave it...
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