Chapter 16. A Cut Above
The Basics of Video Editing
Congratulations! You’ve made it to the heart of postproduction—editing. Editing is where a project comes together, where seemingly disparate items converge to create a cohesive story. The famous director Francis Ford Coppola once said, “The essence of cinema is editing. It’s the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.”
The alchemy that Coppola speaks of is the beauty of editing. In any given project you’ll probably have shot a ton of footage, which until you reach the editing phase of ...
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