Continuity Articles

• Use of Stills in Video
  February, 2009
  by Morgan Paar
  Dropping a still photo in your video isn't too hard, but making it flow well takes a special eye. Adding movement to stills is a technique that the masters…
• Polished Work
  April, 2008
  by Morgan Paar
  From rough cut to finished product, you want to deliver the goods as cleanly as possible. Here are the Seven Steps to Creating an Excellent Polished Work.
• Motivation
  March, 2008
  by Morgan Paar
  It's a bird... it's a plane... it's ... the motivated edit? It's a powerful editing technique, but to execute it well, you must consider the final edit when…
• Screen Direction
  February, 2007
  by Robert G. Nulph, Ph.D
  Screen direction is perhaps one of the most confusing yet easily remedied problems in directing a video production.
• Edit Suite: Continuity Boot Camp
  May, 1996
  by Mike Loehr
  How to put an end to the often comical - and always embarrassing - continuity error.
• The Art of the Edit
  November, 1994
  by Janis Lonnquist
  Editing is more than just sticking scenes together - it's a strange language, a discipline, an art. In this article, we'll show you how to master editing and…
• The Editing Saboteurs-Every Editor's Enemies: Videomaker's Most Wanted
  March, 1998
  by Loren Alldrin
  Be on the lookout for the Federal Bureau of Editing Aesthetics' most wanted perpetrators. After you read this article, you won't be able to say you weren't…
• Edit Suite: Continuity
  April, 1999
  by Jim Stinson
  Continuity is the job of both the director and the editor.
• Edit Suite: The Mysteries of Screen Direction
  January, 2000
  by Jim Stinson
  The basic rules for screen direction are deceptively simple.
• Edit Suite: Five Types of Continuity
  March, 2000
  by Jim Stinson
  Even Hollywood movies can suffer gaps in continuity. Learn what to do to keep continuity throughout your video.
• Video Editing: Go with the Flow
  July, 2002
  by Bill Davis
  Ever been hypnotized? A well-edited movie does exactly that, and it's not a bad thing. It captures the imagination in a way that virtually takes over the brain.
• Computer Editing: Go with the Flow -- Editing for Continuity
  March, 2003
  by Bill Davis
  Paying attention to the continuity can help you communicate clearly with your audience.
• Computer Editing: Six Transgressions of the Edit Suite: An Editor's Tale
  April, 2003
  by Bill Davis
  Gather round ye acolytes of seamless editing. Today's scroll concerns a subject near and dear to all who believe in the power of the smooth program.
• Take 5: Super-Human Editing Tips
  January, 2004
  by Chuck Peters
  Super-Human Editing Tips
• Manipulating Time
  September, 2005
  by Bill Davis
  Tempis Fugit. If you're not up on conversational Latin, that's
• Cutting on Action
  October, 2008
  by Kyle Cassidy
  One of the advantages of living at the end of 100 years of motion picture editing is that we have access to the collected wisdom of many film and television…
• Cut with Continuity
  October, 1992
  by William Ronat