9 Cuts Every Video Editor Should Know | Filmmaking Tips

let's talk about editing editing is taking all you went through in production from the perfectly lit shots to the awful takes you never want to look at and turns it into a story worth watching which program you decide to edit on doesn't matter it's about finding your voice and that's what i want to talk about today you see there are a few cuts that you can try out that add a whole lot more weight and meaning to your video let's call it eight nine essential cuts every editor should know first things first let's kick it off with the basics it's going to be your standard shot now this is exactly what it sounds like it's going to be the end of one scene and the start of another it's just putting two clips together no flare no fuss no added meaning number two my personal favorite the jump cut it's going to be just that to jump around a scene with the intent of speeding up time now this can be done for comedic effect but also as a way to simply demonstrate the passing of time usually it's gonna be taking one long take cutting it up throughout the middle and then putting it all together into one piece cut number three the j cut so you've actually seen the j cut way more than you realize it's just simply leading into the next scene with the audio like this see what i mean so this cut is as simple as it sounds you just drag the audio clip from the next clip over on top of your current clip it's a good way to kind of segue into the next scene change locations and let the audience know what's about to happen so this brings us to the l-cut the l-cut is exactly what the j-cut is but flipped so my audio right now will take us into the next shot so the l-cut is actually absolutely essential for conversational scenes because you're going to have two characters one of them is going to be saying something and then you're going to cut to the other character as that first character is still talking that's an l cut perhaps the most common cut that you're going to be taught in film school and then now that you know it you'll see it everywhere is cutting on action so it's basically exactly as it sounds you're gonna cut when one character moves a certain way it doesn't have to be a punch or a kick but it can even just be a head turning someone moving looking a certain way getting up or walking so this just allows the audience's eyes to stay on the action as it plays out throughout the scene cross cutting also known as parallel editing this is just a way to build suspense having two narratives play out at the same time uh you'll see this a lot in like heist thriller movies where people are on the phone two characters are in different locations and they have to come together or one character is being chased by another character so what this does is allow you to tell two stories at once taking the viewer back and forth from perspective of the varying characters in your movie [Music] a little bit like cross cutting cutaways are meant to kind of serve the purpose of informing the viewer where you are in the scene so where i am right now as you can see this is my environment and i'm going to cut to it to show you exactly where i am in the world so a good way to do this is just to get b-roll the more you're cutting to other shots the more engaged your audience is and the more likely they are to have a better understanding of what's going on in the scene [Music] so the montage is more for the sequences rather than the scene it's light jump cuts but consider it to be over an extended period of time in different locations you'll see this a lot with sports movies training any type of scene where the character needs to get ready for something whether it be a fight a battle going on a date cooking any type of gold that your character has and they're trying to work towards it throw in a montage it's a perfect way to demonstrate change in your characters [Music] [Music] last but not least match cuts so one of the most iconic and impressive cuts in filmmaking is the match cut and what it is is matching a character's actions into the next scene so it kind of follows into the next frame creating a fluid motion the melding of two environments to create a seamless cut that takes the audience from here to there before they even realize what happened my personal favorite lawrence of arabia whenever he strikes the match and then well i hope that was helpful you guys try to storyboard and plan out the shots and the cuts you're gonna make next time you're getting ready for your film and remember to not be afraid to try new things come up with a new cut there are no rules make your work as weird and original as possible alright i'll see the next one [Music] you

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Length: 5min 21sec (321 seconds)

Published: Thu May 24 2018

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informative...we will need it as creators to engage our audiences. I just watched James Jani and guys, his editing is great...