13 Creative Film and Video Editing Techniques

Once you master these edit types you can make your projects more entertaining and your editing more efficient, and you can create a whole editing style of your own that reflects your creative side. Make sure to bookmark this companion infographic! bit.ly/2HgZwnl
In this video we review:
1. standard cut
2. fade in/fade out
3. jump cut
4. montage
5. cross dissolve
6. wipe
7. J/L cuts
8. cutting on action
9. cutaways
10. cross cut parallel editing
11. match cut
12. smash cut
13. invisible cut
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[@AlimondStudio]

I love how you not only tell us the transitions, but ALSO why we'd use them and where we'd use them! Thank you!

[@alexanderSnilsson]

Very smooth and straight to the point summary! Thanks!

[@johnbeuck587]

Thanks!!
Finally the J and L
in J and L cuts make sense! :D

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The quality of this video is insane.

[@nb08]

I knew the techniques but not the names, so it was helpful :)

[@darkdemonqueen]

i'm playing around with writing an amateur screenplay. knowing the different types of editing styles like this helps me to envision my story even better thru the eyes of the director. thank you for this.

[@MyPaulBert]

Gave me an good insight and jog my memory back up!! Thank you!! #filmtime

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Great explanation! Its nice to have the correct name for the transitions we have been using.

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Seriously this video was vry helpful for me

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This is an awesome summary , Thanks

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This is very good! helps me on my video eiditing a lot !

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Thanks for posting.....Quick question....what is the background music for this video.

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