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Community Editing Cheat Sheet
🎬 Video Editing Cheat Sheet – Top Tips from the Community
🔊 Sound Design
Layer Ambient Audio – Add room tone, subtle wind, traffic, or forest sounds under your video to make it feel alive.
Use Whooshes & Risers – Transition sounds help guide attention and create energy.
Mute Your Video – Watch it with no sound to see if the pacing holds. Then rebuild audio intentionally.
⏱️ Pacing & Flow
Cut on Movement – Helps hide cuts and makes edits feel smoother.
Don’t Always Cut to the Beat – Instead, build momentum using pacing that fits the emotion of the story.
Use J-Cuts & L-Cuts – Start audio before the video (or vice versa) for more natural scene transitions.
🎨 Color Grading
Use LUTs as a Base, Not a Crutch – Always adjust for your footage.
Match Skin Tones First – Get those right before stylizing.
Use RGB Parade Scopes – Helps keep exposure and color balance clean.
💻 Workflow & Speed
Custom Keyboard Shortcuts – Set shortcuts for ripple delete, cut, and zoom.
Use Adjustment Layers – For effects or color grades across clips.
Label & Organize Sequences – Especially on big projects; saves time and sanity.
📖 Storytelling
Start with Emotion, Not B-Roll – Hook your viewer with human moments or tension.
Use Silence – Pauses are powerful when timed well.
Every Cut Should Serve a Purpose – Ask yourself: “Why am I cutting here?”
🧠 Mindset & Creativity
Don’t Be Afraid to Break the Rules – Especially when it feels right.
Limit Yourself Sometimes – Edit with only 3 sound effects, or 1 song. Constraints breed creativity.
Watch Movies with an Editor’s Eye – Pause scenes and reverse-engineer transitions, pacing, and cuts.
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Community Editing Cheat Sheet
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