If you enjoy watching movies, you’re certainly familiar with rapid cuts, freeze frames, flash-bulb cuts, and amazing beginning scenes. The majority of these effects are made up of various cuts and edits of videos that have been assembled by video editors to tell a story.
If you want to make your projects engaging and enjoyable for your viewers, it is imperative that you become an expert in the numerous edit styles and comprehend why each strategy is crucial in particular situations. Additionally, mastering all these video editing techniques can speed up your editing process and enable you to express your creative side.
STANDARD CUT
One of the fundamental cuts in video editing, a hard cut joins two clips together. The end frame of one and the first frame of the following are connected by the conventional cut.
MONTAGE
A montage is an editing technique that incorporates time-based elements. This method is also utilized to give the tale a broad perspective when combined with fast cuts. Videos featuring athletes practicing or getting ready for competition often use montages, but montages may be utilized for any kind of metamorphosis.
JUMP CUT
This one advances the chronology. This cutting method is regularly utilized inside the same composition or frames. Most often, a jump cut is utilized in montages.
WIPE
An animation that “wipes” the opening scene or tale away and into the following scene is known as a wipe. The “wipe” moments from Star Wars and “Home Improvement” from the 1990s are a few outstanding examples.
CROSS DISSOLVE
Starting with denoting the passage of time, a cross-dissolve serves a variety of functions and reasons in a narrative. Although each scene was shot at a distinct time, the method is sometimes used to overlap or dissolve “layers” to portray numerous scenes or tales at once.
THE J & L CUT
The J and L cuts are often used. The J cut is the inverse of the L cut in that it keeps the audio from clip X playing when clip Y enters the scene. The J cut allows us to hear the audio from clip Y while still viewing clip X. Documentary interviews are typically utilized in the J and L edits.
CUTTING ON ACTION
This method of video editing is self-explanatory. To give you some perspective, you use this approach where our eyes and brains are anticipating it—at the point of action. Viewers like to witness the angle change that occurs when a door is kicked open. When the door is blown open, nobody wants to see it.
MATCH CUT
Match cuts are edits that provide context, continuity, and a definite direction for the scene without confusing the spectator. This kind of editing is used to cut between scenes or move inside a certain area without causing any confusion. Simple examples of these cuts are shooting someone as they open a door from behind and cutting to the other side as they pass through.
INVISIBLE CUT
Are you an editor who wants to show off your artistic side? Start by incorporating some undetectable cuts into your video or movie. These cuts are used to give the impression that a shot was taken in one continuous take.
SMASH CUT
A noisy scene would abruptly change to a quiet one, or the other way around, using a smash cut. This transitional method is employed by editors to switch between two distinct scenes, stories, or feelings. When individuals awaken from nightmares, they may observe the smash cut technique in action.
CROSSCUT/PARALLEL EDITING
Using this editing method, you may transition between two separate scenes that are happening at the same time but in different locations. Particularly in heist movies when you watch individuals robbing a safe while security personnel is moving near their position, parallel editing and cross cuts are ideal for building tension.
CUTAWAY SHOTS
Cutaways are shots that draw the audience’s attention away from the primary actors or the action. More foreshadowing and suspense are created by cutaway shots, which offer context to the scene or action.
FADE IN & OUT
This one is really simple—you simply fade one clip out and then the next one in. The fade-in/out technique is used to show the passing of time, typically for situations when someone is falling asleep or as the night changes to day.
