VideoMaker Magazine
Advanced Editing Workshop


Video Editing Technique
Video Capture and Asset Management

• Scene Detect
• Log and Capture
• Storyboarding
  

Working with Clips and Sub-Clips

• Creating sub-clips
  

• Extracting Audio
• Audio Channel Mapping
  

Cuts, Transitions and Wipes

• Cuts only Editing
• Dissolves
• Wipes (Batman Bat Symbol, StarWars Push)

Adding Video Effects

• Understanding Effects
• Animating Effects
• Keyframe Interpoloation

Enhancing Color

• Coloring
• Color Removal
• Color Correction

Compositing Techniques

• Alpha Channels
• Keying
• Matte Effects

Video Editing Concepts
Editing: Beyond the Basics

• The 900 rule

10 Editing Rules

• Working with the Rules
• Going Beyond the Rules
• Understanding the role of the Thinking Editor
• What is the Goal of the Project?
• Building a Project Brief

Shooting to Edit

• Advanced Planning
• StoryBoarding

• Relationship between camera work and editing
• Shooting for FX

Crafting the Illusion

• Willful Suspension of Disbelief
• Building a Mood
• Developing Story Flow
• Lip Syncing
• Breaking the Mood

Understanding the Meaning of your Cuts

• Match Cut
• Subliminal Cut
• Jump Cut
• Cross Cut
• Cut Zooms

Creating Meaningful Transitions and Effects

• Consider the implications of any transitions
• Push
• Dissolve
• Split Screen
• Focus transitions
• Over/Under Exposure transition
  

Compositing

• SuperImpositions
• Chroma Keying
• Working with Mattes

Understanding the Importance of Sound

• Leading with Sound
• The Effects of Sound
  
• The Power of silence