In the Beginning of cinema film Editing didn’t exist and scenes would only show one continuous shot. We’ve come a long way since then the technique of cutting together different shots something we now take for granted has taken many years to develop.
Some time it comes to your mind how Video Editing work and what are the fundamental of video editing. Let me Explain you. Video editing is an art to tell your story in the best way. Now a day whenever you watch any kind of video is part of editing and edit by Editor.
What exactly does an editor do an editor organizes cuts and sequences footage to construct a story. Today we use Non-linear editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro etc.
There are 5 Basic fundamental of video editing and many more.
1. Sequence
2. Music
3. Color Grading
4. Transitions
5. Edit and cuts
There are some Cuts Every Video Editor Should Know it
1. Cutting on Action
All this means cutting from one shot to another, well subject is still in motion. It does always in punch shot or kick, character Turing or throwing something or character going through a door.
2. Cut Away
Is cutting to a insert shot something and then back. The insert could be exist in same space of the character also we can use cut away to get inside the head of the character. A little bit like cross cutting cutaways are meant to kind of serve the purpose of informing the viewer where you are in the scene. so a good way to do this is just to get b-roll the more you’re cutting to other shots the more engaged your audience is and the more likely they are to have a better understanding of what’s going on in the scene.
3. Cross cut
Cross cut also known as parallel editing this is just a way to build suspense having two narratives play out at the same time you’ll see this a lot in like heist thriller movies where people are on the phone two characters are in different locations and they have to come together or one character is being chased by another character. It allow you to tell two stories at once taking the viewer back and forth from perspective of the varying characters in your movie. For example most phones Conversations and when use effetely cross cutting create a kind of tension or suspense the sequence. This technique also show what going inside the characters head.
4. Match cuts
A match cut cut from one short to a similar short by either matching the action or the compositions. Match cut are mainly using is seen transitions. so one of the most iconic and impressive cuts.
In filmmaking is the match cut and what it is? matching a character’s actions into the next scene so it kind of follows into the next frame creating a fluid motion the melding of two environments to create a seamless cut that takes the audience from here to there before they even realize what happened.
5. Jump Cut
when the editor cut between the same shorts and they offer use to deliver the show the passing of time like in montage. Jumps cuts also be used to add a level of urgency to the seen. It’s going to be just that to jump around a scene with the intent of speeding up time now this can be done for comedic effect but also as a way to simply demonstrate the passing of time usually it’s going to be taking one long take cutting it up throughout the middle and then putting it all together into one piece.
6. Fade in/ fade out
Shorts disappear in black or white color from one short to another shorts.
7. Dissolve
when we dissolve one short to another shorts. These are also use in montage and passing of time. You can also dissolve same shots also.
8. Smash Cut
Some example of smash cut is waking up from intense dream at night, Going to something intense to quite or quite to intense.
9. Iris
Iris is used to be in camera Effects by in the day when you manually open and close your iris to transitions from black. A lot of these transition you may offen find within a scene.
10. Wipe
Wipe is a transition which change shots from right to left or left to right even top to bottom and bottom to top. There can be many types of wipe we can easy create.
11. Invisible cut
Invisible cut are used to give the impression of single take however cuts are hidden in blackness or you can hide the cut on the motion of the camera movement.
12. L cut
L cut is audio based transitions. This is when the audio from the current shot carry overs to the next shots. Keep in mind this does not have to just been for scene transitions. We can use all the time even character are talking to each other. L cut is actually absolutely essential for conversational scenes because you’re going to have two characters one of them is going to be saying something and then you’re going to cut to the other character as that first character is still talking that’s an l cut.
13. J cut
J cut is when the audio from the next scene start before you get to it. The J cut and L cut are designed to specifically create a seamless flow, a seamless transition from one scene to another. J cut is also good to revealing a new element with in a scene.
14. Montage
so the montage is more for the sequences rather than the scene. it’s light jump cuts but consider it to be over an extended period of time in different locations you’ll see this a lot with sports movies training any type of scene where the character needs to get ready for something whether it be a
fight a battle going on a date cooking any type of gold that your character has and they’re trying to work towards it throw in a montage it’s a perfect way to demonstrate change in your characters