“For narrative video editing, this skill-set is truly magical”.
I feel it is the most important ability for any video creative to master.
It’s one of the hardest talent to learn – and so often overlooked. Not only for when your audience is watching video content, but also on the timeline, while video editors are crafting the video content – scene by scene and frame by frame.
When you get this right, you will feel the edit come alive, feel right and somehow make much more sense.
The similarity that both share is the extraordinary skill of
Pace & Timing
The No.1 Video Editor Skill.
This is the number one skill that will vastly improve the way the audience will enjoy your video production content.
While YouTubers are teaching how to click buttons within an edit program, they’re not teaching the real art of video editing – but that’s a whole different blog post …
Pace and Timing is the feel of the film.
This helps your audience feel what you want them to feel.
More often than not, video editors don’t use this method and their edits can become confusing, disorganised, and somehow just don’t feel right to the viewer.