Posts tagged with "Editing Techniques"

A beginner's guide to the video editing timeline: tracks, clips, the playhead, in and out points, markers and snapping; the core edit types from insert and overwrite to ripple, roll, slip and slide; J/K/L playback; compound clips; the magnetic timeline; and why AI editors still use one.

Explains what a jump cut is, with examples, its history from Méliès to Godard's Breathless, how it differs from match cuts, smash cuts and J/L-cuts, how to make one look intentional, and how to smooth the jump cuts that AI silence removal creates.