[Milton Hockman]

its crazy how certain edits work and some dont huh?

for example. in this video i am making i show a about 4-5 shots back to back of CU of peoples face. Some are talking and others are just listening.

they are each about 2-4 secs long and i cut on the blink of their eyes and it made the sequence edits really invisible. it flowed so naturally.

just a simple attention to detail (by one or two frames) really does make a difference.

[Milton Hockman]

thanks for the advice.

before i read this post i actually moved the clips around and changed the sequnce of them.

i had the plane landing, then a shot of busy cars in front of the airport (which was a nice edit because both shots had fast moving elements) and then to an interior shot of peopel walking fast and then to a plane taking off.

the taxiing shot was just too slow for the sequence.

it worked out better than before.

[Milton Hockman]

well i’d like to know more about invisible cutting in reference to putting two b-roll shots together.

for example. my coworker told me that this was a jump cut, but i thought i was making an invisible cut……

a plane is landing in the shot going from left to right and then i cut to another clip that has a plane taxiing on the runway (going slow)

i ligned up the shots so that the noses of each shot almost matched up. the second shot nose of the plane was a little farther in the fram in the right than the previous shot.

I personally thought that this cut was ok and made an invisible cut, but he said it was considered a jump cut cause i cut from one plane to another doing the same thing.

who is right??

[Milton Hockman]

i have that book on order. thanks.

yeah that is what i am doing to now. i found some really hot spots that i think are awsome and i am going through them frame by frame to see how they matched them to the music, as well as the shots the used and the motion in each invididual shot.

i figure its like a musician who wants to be good…….study the works of others that are awsome and you will eventually find common threads that lead to great works.

[Milton Hockman]

i think so.

so is this a good example…..

let’s say a person’s head moves into a shot from frame left and leaves frame right. at about almost the time the head leaves the shot you cut to another clip that has a pan move that goes from left to right. (so the motion is in theory continuing between the two shots.)

is that an invisible cut technique?

[Milton Hockman]

Steve might have it right……faster in FCP. no need to ram preview.

[Milton Hockman]

i did some research and i found the types of thing i was referring to.

pacing
invisible cutting
cutting on the action
building tension

those are the types of things i am looking to learn more about. i am only able to find snippets of what they mean online but want to read detailed explanations of what works in regards to them. maybe even theory books that break down a shot sequence.

[Milton Hockman]

i did some research and i found the types of thing i was referring to.

pacing
invisible cutting
cutting on the action
building tension

those are the two types of things i am looking to learn more about. i am only able to find snippets of what they mean online but want to read detailed explanations of what works in regards to them. maybe even theory books that break down a shot sequence.

[Milton Hockman]

it seems like everyone is talking about cutting for Films.

I don’t cut films, and probably will not for a long time.

I cut together interviews with b-roll on top and an occasional commercial or two. So, i am looking for resources that provide tips of editing those types of things.

I just saw a guys demo reel on Cow, in the Demo Reels section. It is by “scott_ch” and his editing is awseome! that is exactly the kind of stuff i want to do in my career. Once you look at it, you will know what i mean when i say “i want to know how to edit properly.”

i feel like every cut and effect he uses is perfect. How do you learn how to cut with that type of skills????

[Milton Hockman]

can anyone give me some tips that are outlined in the “On Editing, and The Eye is Quicker” book?

i am going to buy them, but still want a preview of techniques they discuss.