Edit Suite: Aesthetics of Editing
Have you noticed how some videos move from scene to scene so smoothly it's almost as if you don t see the edits? Your mind can recall only the story, the images or the music from these great programs. Of course, you ve also seen videos that look so disjointed and "choppy" that the story never gets going, and the images don t pack their full emotional punch. What separates these two kinds of videos is aesthetics--specifically, editing aesthetics: how pleasant or unpleasant the arrangement of the pictures appears to the human eye.
Mastering editing aesthetics is more art than science, but there are some rules that most editors agree will help you tell a better story using moving images. Follow those simple rules and you can make the story in your next video flow effortlessly across the scr…
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