How Professional Hollywood Editors Cut a Movie Trailer - Video Editing Tutorial

This training series will be covering topics like:

- How a trailer is paced & structured
- How to edit a trailer with style
- How to cut a professional montage
- How to edit trailer music and sound design
- A step-by-step deconstruction of a Hollywood trailer

Jump into the free course and start learning this unique craft!

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Film Editing Pro is an online learning resource that provides detailed, step-by-step creative editing training.

Our mission is to teach you the art of creative editing – not only how to use a piece of software. Our contributing team of professional Hollywood editors has 120+ years of combined editing experience.

Students are able to learn professional editing techniques through in-depth tutorial videos, illustrated guides and hands-on editing lessons that walk you through the world of film, tv and trailer editing.

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[nikhiljohn]

Video editors don’t get enough credit for their amazing work!!

[pirank]

Video editing is freaking hard... Only editors know

[BoilingHeart]

where was this all of my life??? this is such an incredible in depth explanation - i've tried making fan trailers for stuff to push the boundaries of amv style videos but always felt like i was missing something, like there was something i didn't fully understand, and this really really opened my eyes, thank you so much thank you this is AMAZING

[dr.yahyaelewa]

Two thumbs up. The way you speak, explain, orchestrate, teach makes me raise the hat for you. If it's in my hands, I will never hesitate to honor your Excellency an OSCAR.
Thank you so, so much Professor.

[InfinityShadow]

This video motivates me. I am obviously no trailer editor, but this video alone has taught me things I never thought of until now. Thank you.

[novelafilmacademy]

"Brilliant showcase of sound design in filmmaking! Loved all the detailed work—truly amazing!"

[ronineditor]

Speaking my language. I've been cutting trailers/promos for 22 years, almost all with one of those companies off the top :) There are so many layers to a good trailer but you definitely hit the overview nicely. The story beats are critical... and they have to be easily-digested, assuming someone has no clue what the IP is.

This is the world.
Here is the protagonist.
This is what they want.
Oh wait...
This is what is stopping them.
(Bass hit, stopdown) -- Antagonist states their purpose
(Reverse into...)
Come on the journey see if they can overcome.
Build. Stopdown.
Moment to trigger another action sequence.
Blam blam blam.
Usually one final line.
Call to action.

You pass all of that out and those stopdown moments are so valuable because it really refocuses the audience. Beginning trailer editors sometimes just go rapid fire where it's like a drum solo on top of a guitar solo and nothing is taking the lead.

Sound design is soooo critical. It drives those moments and the pacing, as well as the music. I rarely stick with the same piece of music for a trailer, I try to switch for every act, unless it's some licensed track that the bosses want used.

It's super fun leading different parts take the lead... a VO coming forward, letting music play for a some beats, sound design to carve out those changes.

Oh, also... if you do a stutter cut... do at least three so it doesn't look like a mistake. Or, if it's just a two cut moment, the sound design has to be obvious so the audience knows it was intentional.

It really is like a big musical composition of so many different moving parts.

[jitenanand]

Every Job requires a framework to it, and editing has its own framework, it is creative yet it is magic.

[SimmonsProductions]

As someone who wants to specialize in editing trailers, this helped a lot! I did a whole four years to get my degree in editing and there were no classes focused on TRAILERS. The only thing I’ve done to really hone this craft is making fan-trailers as well as making trailers for my own films and my friends films. It was a great film program but trailer editing specifically was never really focused on: just making the principal film. Thank you so much for this and I hope I can find more resources for editing trailers! :)

[humanbeing]

Just watched part 3. And my god. It was so amazing that the first two vids looked like youtube tutorials. All 3 are so good but it was outdone on the third

[FilmEditingPro]

Hey guys & gals! Question time --- What type of editor are you? Have you ever tried cutting a trailer? How'd it turn out?

[abaniahmadbani]

Holy shoot this is not a tutorial, this is a MASTERCLASS BUT FREE...! Instant subscribe from me!

[SyterPK]

I'm gonna save this video and watch again every time I stuck when editing trailer. I've been doing this for years and there are times where I just can't feel or know what to do. These tips are already in the back of my mind but it never clear to me, thank you thank you.

[itslele]

Thanks so much for helping the beginners and making it free 🥺🙏🏼

[augustus]

been trying to make Teaser/trailers as shorts to gain more traction on my vids and tbh this helps a lot!!

[TheGameOverture]

It's very validating as I've sort of developed my own process that I've already been doing a lot of these things with my own flourish. :) Learned a lot from this one.

[srihari_karanth]

I am a type of trailer editer. beat-synced short cuts. Loved the video.

[GhostStealth]

This is why I love this industry. There's not one set career objective when going into this field. I've found success in indie short films, live event broadcast, studio design, and purely post-pro. This industry captivates those who want to create and who are dedicated to the craft. "network network network" is a big part of it (film students know what I'm talking about), but creativity and drive are other factors that can propel you into the next tier. People care about what you make, not the fake face you put on. Be real, make good shit. This industry is both cutthroat, but also fulfilling.

[alexoliveira-myrx]

Thank you for the Playlist. At least I have lessons being learned in order. Focus guaranteed. Thankyou. Great work Sir. Michael.

[MotiveFuel]

Wow! You're a natural teacher. I feel like I can do Nice tutorialts now