Content Creation University
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PRO-102 Common core Year One Production Craft

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.

  1. Total Beginner's Guide to Video Editing The workflow before the craft: backing up, organizing, assembling, fine cutting, exporting YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 6 min
  2. #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 NPTEL-NOC IITM 2 Peer institution 28 min
  3. The 180 Degree Rule in Film (and How to Break The Line) Continuity's load-bearing rule: the line, screen direction, and spatial orientation StudioBinder 4 Educational 6 min
  4. 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 StudioBinder 4 Educational 19 min
  5. 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 StudioBinder 4 Educational 14 min
  6. 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 StudioBinder 4 Educational 19 min
  7. Day 7: Table Read / Post-Production; Part 2: Post-Production A real post-production session: killing your darlings, rhythm, music, and rights MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 104 min
  8. 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 Dunna Did It P Practitioner 12 min

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.

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