Guide for Video Editing

The best sign of an editor their work goes unnoticed. You should get lost in whatever it was that the director has for the piece, and forget about the editing. Seamless narrative storytelling is the aim, whether it’s a wedding, a graduation, a BTS, a documentary or a motion picture, the idea is not to jar the audience out of their engagement with the piece. How Can You Learn How To Edit? I’ve been editing “properly” for a little over a decade and have completed all sorts of projects, including fashion editorial, commercial lifestyle, action sports, photo education, interviews and documentaries. While I kick started my editing career through a 4 day course years ago in Final Cut Pro that my employer at the time paid for, there are far more resources online than when I started. But there is a gap in what you can learn online, unless you’re happy to trawl YouTube endlessly looking for the video that might help you on whatever subject area you might be trying to progress. Enter Paddy Bird and his team. Paddy is a veteran professional editor, with over 15 years of experience in political, science and historical documentary, and TV editing for channels like the BBC, ITV (UK), Channel 4 (UK) Discovery, National Geographic, The Smithsonian Channel, ABC and NBC. This is a guy who definitely knows his craft – an essential requirement if thinking about undertaking what the course has to offer. Not only that, but he’s been teaching editing for a couple of years, so his background is well suited to helping others along their own path and building a curriculum for them to meet their needs. How Is it Different To What Else Is Available? It’s unique for a number of reasons. First, it’s online. For many of is, this is now not only the most desirable way to learn, but the only way to learn. We simply don’t have the time, means or resources to go to night class, dedicated seminars, film school or any physically located venue. Secondly, from what I’ve seen so far, it’s extremely comprehensive. There is are an extensive number of tutorials they’ve put together here, from introducing key terminology and jargon, all the way through to basically allowing you to take almost 500GB of raw footage they provide, and giving you’re the means to produce a full documentary edit from it by the end of the course