Editing I: The Cut
Timeline fundamentals, continuity, cutting on action. Software-agnostic principles.
- Lectures
- 8
- Total runtime
- 3h 28m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 44m
- Prerequisites
- None
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- Total Beginner's Guide to Video Editing The workflow before the craft: backing up, organizing, assembling, fine cutting, exporting 6 min Attended
- #13 Editing in Cinema | Montage | Jumpcut | Part 1 (Introduction to Film Studies) Why a cut works at all: two shots placed together produce a meaning neither one contains 28 min Attended
- The 180 Degree Rule in Film (and How to Break The Line) Continuity's load-bearing rule: the line, screen direction, and spatial orientation 6 min Attended
- 6 Ways to Edit Any Scene — Essential Film & Video Editing Techniques Explained [Shot List Ep. 10] The working repertoire: eyeline match, cross cutting, eye trace, split edits, intellectual montage, cut on action 19 min Attended
- What is a Jump Cut & When to Use It — 5 Essential Jump Cut Editing Techniques Explained Breaking continuity deliberately: the jump cut, its cost, and how to hide or exploit it 14 min Attended
- Ultimate Guide to Scene Transitions – Every Editing Transition Explained [The Shot List, Ep 9] Everything that is not a hard cut: dissolves, fades, wipes, match cuts, smash cuts, L- and J-cuts 19 min Attended
- Day 7: Table Read / Post-Production; Part 2: Post-Production A real post-production session: killing your darlings, rhythm, music, and rights 104 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator NOT HAPPY With Your Video Editing? 8 SIMPLE Editing Techniques and Concepts To Make BETTER Videos! The repertoire on a working timeline: cutting on action and eye trace (Lecture 4) and J-, L- and match cuts (Lecture 6) executed shot by shot in a creator's own edits, including what he does when the footage gives him no motion to cut on 12 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Dunna Did It — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.