How PRO Video Editors Approach EVERY Edit

In this video editing tutorial, I teach video editors where to cut in and out of shots.

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⏱️ Chapters:
00:00 - Where To Cut
00:47 - Examples

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[MrMyNameIsHaha]

This guy has no business giving this tip for free and yet here we are. You're doing god's work sir, you just earned a subscriber 👌

[imagesbyzel]

I've never seen anyone breakdown when to cut like this. This is really good!

[bawzmedia-]

Buddy, you have unlocked a huge lock in my mind. Thank you. Keep it up!

[TimelyAdventure]

Fantastic lesson! Your edits are so smooth, thank you!

[crazzzyakash]

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[boonong]

This is such a simple concept that I totally missed out. thank you for sharing this!

[cineplugg]

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[SangNand]

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[MINEWISE]

YES THIS VIDEO WAS NOT FULL OF ANSWERS, BUT GIVE A HUGE INSIGHT I THINK, THANKYOU GURU JI

[quiteenough]

There's Tarkovsky's book "Sculpting in time" and his "Lectures on directing" and "Lessons of directing", although idk if last two has English translation but it has to be included in "Sculpting of time" at least partially. So he approaches editing totally different, that you as a director start to outline editing prior to the screenplay even (when you just had an idea), and then you edit pieces based on the "feeling of the flow of the time in the shot (frame)", his main point that movie is about capturing the (flow of) time in itself, and movie in the whole is like mosaic of time (pieces), like "canned time", so you can't put together two shots with "different time (flow)" together while editing like a plumber can't put together two pipes of different diameter. I should add that by the (flow of) time he meant not the physical movement in the frame, not the speed of that movement in ontological sense, but rather something much more thorough as a dimension or so, literally capturing the time on the film.

What triggers me and utterly upsets that almost every single modern movie has the same editing and the same editing feeling, and when I watch let's say Bergman's movies or Robert Bresson's ones, it's such a nice breath of fresh air...

[tomdmann]

First time viewer and now subscriber. Really helpful, clear advice.

[ToniLeirvikLarsen]

It’s interesting to hear someone articulate parts of the editing process that many editors instinctively “feel” are the right things to do, even if they don’t know exactly why.

I often struggle with this myself, explaining to a fellow editor why I did what I did. My explanation is usually that my intuition kicks in and the problem-solving takes place on the timeline. Very vague, but hey, videos like these might help me get better at explaining why I do what I do.

Thanks for the video!

[Ishana-Sharma]

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[AdjutantReflex]

this guy deserves an award just for the fact that he didn't drag this out into a 9-15 minute video

[newhopeanimalrescuenfp]

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[Editing-wkrw]

Thank you, Menges, for this video. I would love to watch more videos like this from you.There are so many creators who just teach the effects, but I want to learn the psychology behind the cuts and editing. What is in the editor's mind with every cut or effect? I want that. ☺️

[eduardoan]

This is so simple yet so useful, thank you.

[gustavoserrate]

Great content! Editing is not just operating a tool.

[terratale]

Man oh man, the main bottleneck in my editing workflow was gone in 3 minutes.
Thank you so much. ❤❤

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