Editing: The Dark Art
For some, editing film and video comes easy, naturally, as if the editing gods possess their mouse clicks and control their keyboard shortcuts to magically whittle hundreds of hours of footage down into mere minutes of genius.
Then, there’s the rest of us.
You might already be a great editor. Yes? Then you should be soooo happy for you.
If not, maybe you have a best friend or romantic counterpart who is an editing genius and will gladly toil for hours on your passion project or pitch tape idea.
Or, maybe you’re flush with cash and can spend $100 to $300 an hour on a great editor who will polish your project to a sheen.
None of those things true for you?
Then you’ll be editing your project yourself. Daunting, given this simple truth: