Video Editing Techniques – A Practical Guide to Creating Visually Appealing Edits

Hi, I’m Sean Dykink, I’m a video maker with just over 10 years of experience behind the camera and edit bay, and love the video editing process. Over the years I’ve learned (and still am) how to create effective video edits and why they work. I want to share my knowledge, not just by explaining what Video Editing Techniques there are, but when and why we use them. So let’s get started with this course on Video Editing Technique: A Practical Guide to Creating Visually Appealing Edits.

What will you learn in this class?

Gain an understanding of how a story shapes an edit

Using the “what and why” of a story to guide an edit

Serving the story with your audio and video choices

Learn video editing techniques that connect emotionally to your audience

Video Edits, why and when to use them

Pace & Rhythm

Eye Trace

The process of choosing selects, assembly and rough edit, and refining the edit using video editing techniques

Acquire audio editing techniques for smooth seamless sound edits

Editing audio on the zero point

Signaling your audience with audible cues

Using rhythm to edit music

Reverb as a flexible audio editing tool

For beginners: It is recommended that you have some knowledge of how to use a chosen video editing program. However, there are a lot of video editing techniques explored that do not require you to follow along with the class project.

00-Class Introduction lets go 01-Class Project 02-Set the Foundation for Your Edit Using Story 03-Editing Music to Serve the Story 04-Connecting Music Tracks Using Rhythm 05-Editing Audio on the Zero Point 06-Reverb for Flexible Music Editing 07-Cueing Your Audience With Music 08-Video Edits Part 1 09-Choosing Selects 10-Video Edits Part 2 11-Creating the Project Rough Edit 12-Pacing Rhythm 13-Eye Trace 14-Refining the Rough Edit 15-Final Recap and Thank you

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