NOT HAPPY With Your Video Editing? 8 SIMPLE Editing Techniques and Concepts To Make BETTER Videos!
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- Could your video editing be better? In this video, we take a look at 8 things that you could be doing in your Video Edits to make BETTER VIDEOS now!
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Table of Contents:
0:00 - Introduction
0:53 - Tip 1: Cut On The Action
1:58 - Tip 2: Cut To The Beat
2:54 - Tip 3: The J Cut
3:40 - Tip 4: The L Cut
4:28 - Sponsor Segment
5:48 - Tip 5: Eye Trace
6:50 - Tip 6: The Match Cut
7:38 - Tip 7: Matching Camera Movement
8:49 - Tip 8: Fake Camera Movement
10:10 - Bonus Tip!
10:55 - How To Use These Tips
11:32 - Conclusion
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Wow
Husband and father of 3 young kids, just had my 38th birthday and received editing software as a gift.
Years of dreaming, and now met with the reality of not knowing how to use it.
Glad I stumbled across your content. This was a thought-provoking and inspired video.
I find it really annoying when people use L cuts and J cuts incorrectly, during their own monologue to hide some, what would have usually been jump cuts to fix mistakes in delivery, but instead they do an L/J cut between two identically framed talking head videos (or even cropped in, doesn't matter), making the speech not in sync with what the lips are doing. Argh...
One tip I know is to keep your background music subtle when someone/narrator is speaking. Loved your video, I learned J and L prior.
Agreed! Wait... is that a hint? Was my music a bit loud in this one?
Hahaha! I was wondering the same thing!
@@dunnadidit Yes. Often detracted from your great informative narrative.
Haha noted
Just watched it back again and found that the music was plenty quiet for me to clearly hear my voice on top while still being loud enough to give the mood intended, but I'll definitely keep this in mind for the future or if I hear this feedback more. Thanks a ton Paul!
As both a film student and teacher, I knew all of these techniques but, truly appreciate the refresh. I love the reminders. Sometimes, as an editor, I use specific edits as a crutch so, this is a reminder to keep it fresh. Thank you.
What he said!
Lol, what he said too. Media teacher so I knew them but there's a few I don't really use and needed the reminder, like I forget to use J-cuts.
As someone who is self taught for video editing and without any kind of film background who just wants to get halfway decent at making vlogs that hopefully don’t suck…this is immensely helpful. Thanks!
Same here. None of the other videos about editing were as clear and concise as this.
Agreed!!
You’re all too kind!
Kudos Eric, I'm a beginner with no media background and gaining immensely
Have you found other good video editing videos for self learning?
Quick tip: At some parts, pausing the background music would be really effective. You can use it when somethibg funny happens, or for a mood/emotion transitions etc. This video has has those pauses in several places 👍
To add to the J cut, you can use it in addition with music. So if you wanna transition from one scene to the next, you can use a song that has a build up before a drop, and put a hard cut transition right on the first kick or bass. You see it MANY times in films and I myself have used it. Very neat.
Great tip!
I'm at the beginning of my video editing journey. What I've learned so far is, basically, everything I've ever watched from the big screen, to television and music videos, "you guys" have put in an immense amount of time and dedication to your work (that you spent a great amount of time even learning how to do). My hats off to all those I've basically ignored, or never even realized existed. Now, everything I watch I pull apart in my head and look at what was accomplished and how. A good editor can make something lackluster shine like a diamond. A bad one can take a diamond and throw it in the mud. Cheers to you and those also on their journey.
I wish you luck on your journey man, hammering the iron thousand fold and while its hot forges the mightiest of weapons
After a year, how'd it go? Still with it?
I also want to mention that I really suprisingly liked the L and J cuts.
Great tips. A small mention tho: cutting to the beat does not also imply cutting at the same interval. This calls attention to itself and males the video look cartoonish, imo.
When i use a song in the background, i almost always cut on the verse, since usually i match a scene to it, so it makes sense from a storytelling pov. But inside that verse i give myself liberty to adapt the shot length as i need, 2,3,4 beats.
Here is a pro tip, stop resizing your frame everytime you start a new sentence
I see what you did there lol
I had already learnt all of these tips. However, I had forgotten about eye trace. Actually, come to think of it, I'd also forgotten about things like holding the shot and match cuts! Either way, you refreshed my knowledge a lot and taught me that it is important to know when to use cuts or not. I am still fairly new to editing, so often forget things as there is so much to learn!
You definitely have a new subscriber! Now, time for me to start watching your back catalogue! Happy Sunday! 😁
As a person who just got into editing, I learned so much from this video. I didn't know any of these but thought about the invert feature to keep the cuts going one way before you mentioned . Thank you for this video I will use all of these tips as a video editor beginner. Excited for the journey and will continue to learn from all the help you provide.
Literally all the principles that you mentioned get used with my editing regularly. But whatever works must work to create flow. So that someone watching doesn't get distracted by the edit but stays with the story.
Nice explanation.
I recently used a close up camera shot with good movement that had gyro data attached and used that data to punc in on a different wider shot to make the fake camera movement feel natural. Worked great.
That's a ton of great information in 12 minutes. Well paced, well explained. Thank you.
I knew about the J cut, but not the L cut. I was familiar with key framing, but still have so much to expand on in that area. I loved hearing and finally putting a name to all the techniques I have observed as a content consumer. It helped me understand things so much better on a content creator perspective or editor. Saying I’ve seen all of these techniques is one thing, understanding them in terms of applying is something totally different. Thank you for the insightful video, I can’t wait to practice these!!! ☺️💕
Finally understood J and L cuts, thank you.😊
I knew all of these, not the terms you used, but overall, yes. The one thing I think is important to share is sometimes purposely editing movement clips where the subject is moving in the opposite direction, can add a sense of feeling lost, confusion, frustration, etc. If that is what you want to convey, then it is a good way to show that.
Thank you!
This was so helpful. I didn't know any of them, and you made learning how to do simple edits very accessible for someone less experienced like myself. Thank you!
Seriously great video Dunna! As someone who edits every day, it is a helpful reminder to go back to the basics and ensure these are being done well. I have known about all of these, but the eye-tracking one was one I never thought about continuously! Really good tip!
I feel the same good tip
In addition to my channel not having a niche and my videos not being as exciting, I’ve struggled with editing and have watched a running ton of editing tutorials. Most of the techniques covered here were familiar. But this 12 minute video just clarified so much for the way I absorb information. Thank you so very much!!!
This is huge! Thanks for the J cut and L cut tips.
I knew about these before but the way I learned how to do them was to have the video and audio on separate tracks which made mixing the audio more complicated because now I’d have to process audio on multiple separate tracks using a bus or something.
Seeing you do this so simply by dragging out the audio made my day. This makes it so much easier to make those kind of cuts.
Some of the other tips were brand new to me also. Thanks a bunch ✌️
Even though I knew all of the techniques you talked about (thanks to Uni post production classes), this video was extremely useful to me.
You brought my feet down to earth. I don't need to recreate the wheel for every cut or transition I do - sometimes simplicity is king.
Thank you for the great content!!
Thank you to everyone leaving comments letting me know whether you knew the tips or not! I'm having trouble keeping up with all of your wonderful comments so just in case I missed you, here's your surprise! A little music that you can use in your videos, made by ME! → geni.us/10hrfireplace and yes, you can use it even if you didn't know all the tips! Shoot me a message or tag me if you use it so I can check it out!
YESSSSSS! Dope track! I've got like 4 videos already locked and loaded. I'll definitely try and sneak this one into the next one I shoot! Might be a while before it comes out, but I'll be sure to credit and tag you!
Oooh that track is a vibe!!!
Banger!!! 😎
Things changed... Lol, I'm working it into a re-edit of an older video, from a kind of a trial run channel, that I'm going to post sooner rather than later. BOLO! I'mma tag you for sure! Thanks man, it really is a great track!
I knew them all cause I am an editor by profession. But I believe you missed the most important tip on how to make a better video.
None of these techniques will make your edit better if you do not understand the basic concepts of storytelling.
Thank you so much for not click baiting me and wasting my time! These were very useful tips!!👏👏
Great tips! Thanks 🙏
Absolutely great video. I knew most of these, but I gotta add, for people who edit things like games or shows.
If there is an artificial cut on your footage (gameplay to cutscene, for example), make sure you either use one of the two scenes, or use both long enough so a cut on top won't be as distracting.
Also, great to see someone else using Resolve!
Thanks for posting! I'd love more of these. I've definately fallen into the trap of focusing on all the gizmos and effects (I use Resolve) in my quest to make my next project better than my last. VFX tutorials are great fun and all, but as a newb I know I really need to build a foundation of the basics.
Things I learned:
The Eye Trace
The Match Cut
Techniques for Matching Camera Movement
Good to know Paul! Thanks!
J and L cuts really used to confuse me. I’ve watched tons of videos on this.
How you took the time to not only explain them but also showed an example of scenarios to use them. 🙌
I am teaching myself how to do film/photography currently and it’s videos like yours that really give me a sense of relief! Thank you for producing content that show me my goals aren’t a long shot!
As a guy trying to learn editing from scratch this was really helpful!
Nice! Glad to hear it!
As a complete beginner this video was incredibly helpful. I've found all kinds of information on the technical aspect of editing but very very little on the 'theory' behind it. More videos like this would appreciated, even if it's starting from the bare minimum.
Awesome breakdown, I’ve been on the CZcams journey for almost 2 years now and I am still learning everyday! Thank you
definitely going to keep in mind eye tracing for future vlogs, solid video man! ✌🏼
Thanks brother!
Great video as per usual Dunna! I actually did know all these and the "don't cut" tip is something I recently realized I need to follow more so nice to see that included here too. In a similar vein, I think a good tip (at least I've found it helpful for me) is not using every clip that you have. I was editing an engagement session I did in Banff and after the first edit I realized I was cutting far too often since I really wanted to use basically every pose/scene I shot 😅 Letting go of some of the shots definitely helped streamline the video so just thought I'd mention that in case it helps someone else too :)
Anyway can't wait to see your future videos! It's great seeing a fellow Edmontonian thrive on CZcams 😀
Amen to that! Glad to hear I at least reminded you of something!
Great vid! Thank you🎉
Thank you. Just what I was looking for.
Eye trace is one of those ones that I feel like I was aware of, just never really put it at the front of my mind. lol, now that you've called it out, I'm going to watch out for it and really try to be more aware when I edit. Seems like it can be super powerful, yet subtle. Great video man!
Thanks a ton!
Heard of most of them before, but definitely not integreated in my mind or practice, so super useful to have them in a single video :)
His brief explanation of the various techniques made more sense to me than all the other 5-6 minute tutorials over the J Cut, for example, that I’ve watched.
Didn't think about the eye trace tip, thanks! I usually watch back my footage as I myself would enjoy a video. In gaming videos keeping it short and to the point is most of the time the way to go. My favorite part is when clips match the backtrack audio almost perfectly without planning it out before. Great video!
I literally knew none of them. This was so super helpful. Thanks.
So nice to see a fellow creator using Resolve! Great tips and well presented! 😎
Heck yeah, best NLE out there right now!
Been lookin for info like this for ages!!! More on the "technical" side of cutting would be awesome : how to frame full body subjects in "educational" videos, when to cut-zoom on certain words, how/when to focus on certain body parts etc :D
P.S. Doing educational dance videos and I couldn't find one video about framing a full subject :D
Thanks for new things to try!! Great job.
One tip I frequently use is putting studio reverb on sound effects, it adds depth and a bit of dynamic
Right, I found that out not to long ago.
The only one I hadn't heard 'named' is the Eye Trace. I guess I subconsciously try to keep the framing such that the viewer's eye follows where I want them to go (super useful when shooting real estate jobs). Great tips and I'm going to be more mindful of my edits in the future with the notes I took ✌
Glad to hear it!!
Same here!
I know and use almost everything except number 1,5. Well i learned something new.
WOOO! Love That!
Great tips. Thank you!
Love the refresh
Thank you I’m a total self taught hack and watching professionals is always a huge asset. Thank you for taking the time to help. You’re awesome!
Your video brings a lot of value to the table. I just learned some new things. Thank you! I knew about the J and L cuts and also about cutting on the beat. I found a lot of value in how to make transitions more pleasant (the eye tracking and finding matching shapes between frames also I didn’t know about picking same camera movement). Loved seeing examples. Awesome 🤩 video man!
Thanks for the Eye Trace tips.
Great video! Coming back to the basics once in a while is definitely a good idea. I knew all of these already, but this was a great refresher
Awesome! Thank you so much! I love forward to your next presentation.
I'm only a beginner in the video editing and blogging filed and I've learned the most from your videos!
I intuitively used some of the tips you mentioned (could be visual savviness from years of watching CZcams) but I'm glad I stumbled upon this video to get a clear understanding of how these powerful tricks work. Great job, thanks for putting this together for us!
Very helpful. Thank you!
Master the basics, works for anything new you wanna try! Thanks for the tips, dude
I've heard about all 8 of these tips somewhere before, but it's always great to be reminded of them - in such a well-put-together and tasteful way! Thank you Dunna!
Glad you liked it Alex!
Brilliant!! Thank you !!
Really happy that I stumbled upon this video today! While I have been instinctively doing some of the tips mentioned, being new to the editing game I had no idea what any of them actually were - I feel like I lucked into some of them lol.
Thank you so much for the breakdown and examples! I will certainly be using many of these techniques moving forward (where appropriate).
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Awesome video bro!! Thanks for the info!
The flow between cuts, thanks again!
To be honest, I did know all of these and use them on the regular, but it's still a nice way to brush up on the general knowledge. [TV and feature editor 5+ years]
Thank you for very good instructions.
I knew all of these but it was really nice to be reminded of the eye tracing concept, because its in general a great technique to keep your audience in the film and should be allready thought about when storyboarding. I havent concentrated on the concept as much as I probably should so far.
I've been editing for like 4 years now and I didn't know any of these. Thanks a lot man
Very useful editing tips. Had some idea of few of them but, you made it more simpler and understanding. Thank You 🙏
Thanks for your tutorials I really enjoyed every bit of it
music cutting on music and action is all I really ever done! Awesome tips!!! Thanks is so much!! Going to try these out
excellent tips thank you!
Fantastic Video. Thank you!
I've just been doing editing as a side hobby for a few months, and these tips helped a lot. I generally stick to clips of streamers so a lot of these didn't apply, but the eye tracing tip will very much I think.
I actually have been employing the bonus tip at the end a few times- I always felt sometimes the funniest thing you can do in a scene is simply time a cut, either by hard cutting or letting things awkwardly linger.
I live for the dynamic zoom!
Looks like I have alot to learn! Thank you for these tips!
Thank you! Good info! I actually try to use most of the cutting techniques you described here. It is also important to have a script or think about the edit WHILE filming just to make it easier when editing.
thanks for sharing. This was very useful!!
Amazing! Thank you
Thank you so much, this was great! 🙌🖤
I didn’t know any of these tips. Thx!
LOVE these. Thank you for the tips!
hanks lot Sir.. You helping us..
Fantastic video, thank you so much!
Very helpful, thank you
This is very helpful! Thank you
Wow! Thanks so much it worked!
The Eye Trace technique is definitely something I need to work on more. Thanks for the tips!
Dude! So helpful!! Thanks!
EDITING KNOWS GOLD 🧡🙌✨ thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for those Tips! I will be using all of them.
Tips like this helps me make better vlogs. Most of these tips are new to me and I indeed find them helpful!
Only knew for J-cut and L-cut ... gotta try other aswell! Thanks for tips. Awesome. Really.
Good stuff, man. Thank you.
Fantastic video, thanks!
THANK YOU! this helps me for more future editings
I knew all of these tips but thank you for the refresh!
Super helpful! Thank you
Love the eye track tip! Great video as always 👌
So helpful and so pro! Thanks 🌹
Great vid! Appreciate all the tips. Thanks for making this.
Once you talked through each type of edit, they all made sense in a very cognitive, logical sense - and once they were each explained, I "knew" all of them. However because I have only done extremely limited video work (shooting as well as editing) the ones I was less aware of - and haven't used - were the J and L cuts, as well as the bonus of "hold the cut". These are great things to remember while editing, but also great to keep ini mind while shooting the footage to begin with. Thanks!