Editing Technique Crash Course

Check out this entertaining 4-minute crash course in editing techniques. Sponsored by Pond 5, this slick tutorial gives 13 examples of micro-editing techniques, such as the smash cut, invisible cut and cross cut parallel editing.

And if you haven’t yet received my acclaimed e-book Documentary Editing (free here, normally $27), you’ll learn more editing transition tricks, as well as big-picture structural ideas.

Finally, for tips editing documentaries with multiple protagonists, check out module 5 of my seminar Editing the Character Driven Documentary (taught at the San Francisco Film Society).