let's talk about editing editing is

taking all that 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 it's

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 going to 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 cup 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 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

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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

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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

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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 going to 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 all right i'll see

you the next one

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