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Cutting Technique

Everything in the school that teaches Cutting Technique, across 3 departments.

45 lessons · 10h 44m · Editing · Screenwriting · Color

Lessons on Cutting Technique

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy — Every Frame a Painting · 7m · Intermediate
Jackie Chan - How to Do Action Comedy — Every Frame a Painting · 7m · Intermediate
The Book Every Editor Has to Read — Walter Murch and In the Blink of an Eye — StudioBinder · 15m · Intermediate
The Visual Comedy of ISLE OF DOGS | Criterion x Every Frame a Painting — CRITERION and Every Frame a Painting · 11m · Advanced
Elliptical Editing in Vagabond - Film Art video essay — CRITERION · 4m · Advanced
Pacing in Film Editing: Techniques Every High-End Editor Must Know — Inside The Edit · 13m · Intermediate
Editor Joseph Krings Breaks Down a Scene from Captain Fantastic — Metrograph · 18m · Advanced
Parasite's Perfect Montage — Nerdwriter1 · 8m · Advanced
Andor - One Way Out Editor In-Depth Scene Break Down — Jonny Elwyn · 43m · Advanced
What Makes a Movie Funny? — How to Write, Direct, and Edit Comedy — StudioBinder · 19m · Intermediate
How Editors Cut the Same Scene in 2 Completely Different Ways — Inside The Edit · 11m · Intermediate
How to Start a Scene in Film Editing — Inside The Edit · 16m · Intermediate
Why You Need to Cut Audio BEFORE Picture | Trailer Editing Tutorial — Film Editing Pro · 18m · Intermediate
PSYCHO Shower Scene Breakdown: Editing MASTERCLASS — Maximilien Blanc · 36m · Advanced
Rule of Six Editing: How to Cut Footage LIKE A PRO — Jay Lippman | Riot Anthem Studios · 12m · Intermediate
How Professional Hollywood Editors Cut a Movie Trailer - Video Editing Tutorial — Film Editing Pro · 16m · Advanced
Editing A Documentary - Workflow Organisation & Project Setup in Davinci Resolve — Joshua Kirk · 21m · Intermediate
Bohemian Rhapsody's Terrible Editing - A Breakdown — Thomas Flight · 13m · Intermediate
How to do the Match Cut Transition (Video Editing Tutorial) — Justin Odisho · 9m · Beginner
Why Dune's Editing Feels Different — Thomas Flight · 15m · Advanced
Behind the Scenes on Gone Girl | Adobe Creative Cloud — Adobe Creative Cloud · 56m · Advanced
6 Ways to Edit Any Scene — Essential Film & Video Editing Techniques Explained [Shot List Ep. 10] — StudioBinder · 19m · Beginner
Editing in Hitchcock’s Vertigo | Film Essay — John Hunt · 10m · Intermediate
How Great Editors Think Like Filmmakers (Scene Breakdown) — Film Editing Pro · 13m · Intermediate
BARRY LYNDON - Stanley Kubrick's Meticulous Editing Process (Behind the Scenes) — Cinema Labyrinthine · 10m · Intermediate
Cléo from 5 to 7 - The Genius of Real-Time Storytelling — The Archive of Culture · 9m · Advanced
Editor Dylan Tichenor, ACE on Shaping a Quiet Scene in "There Will Be Blood" — Manhattan Edit Workshop · 4m · Advanced
How THE DARK KNIGHT Breaks Every Editing Rule (Interrogation Scene Breakdown) — Maximilien Blanc · 7m · Intermediate
Introduction to EDITING THEORY | Continuity Editing, Montage, the Rule of Six, and MORE! — Orms | Create More · 14m · Beginner
Cuts & Transitions 101 — RocketJump Film School · 12m · Beginner

Departments teaching this

Oscar winners for editing

Books on editing

The cutting room

Crucial T705 2TB — PCIe 5.0 scratch disk — the fastest consumer NVMe
Dell UltraSharp U2723QE — The sensible 4K second monitor
Apple Mac mini M4 — The cheapest Mac that cuts 4K without complaint
Blackmagic DeckLink 8K Pro — Clean video out to a reference monitor
BenQ SW272U — 4K, hardware calibration, a grading-adjacent price
Apple MacBook Air 15" M4 — Silent, light, and enough for an offline edit

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