Inside the Edit – Creative Edit Training

Inside The Edit teaches you everything you need to know to become a powerful creative editor.

“Inside The Edit is what I consider to be the greatest editing course available online.”

Eddie Hamilton ACE, Oscar Nominated Editor

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• Kingsmen: The Secret Service
• Kick-Ass 2

Unlock the Secrets of the Cutting Room

Drive emotion, build tension, create excitement and have your audience on the edge of their seats.

What Is the Art of Editing?

Tired of Wasting Countless Hours Trying to Learn Editing?

For years editors have had to figure out the complexities of this art form by themselves. Trying to learn editing is frustrating, overwhelming and time consuming. You can waste years through trial and error and still not have all the answers…

Preparing You for Industry

Inside The Edit is the complete learning system for creative editing with everything you need to know all in one place. Through hundreds of examples, live cuts and technique breakdowns, our highly structured course will fast track your career.

Pace & Timing

Understanding how to bend and shape time in your sequences puts you at the very top of the editing hierarchy. We unlock all of the secrets of pacing through dozens of techniques and show you how to use them to stunning effect.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Manipulate the factors that drive pace
• Compress & decompress time
• Control camera movement
• Design speed changes
• Manipulate dialogue tempo

Music Editing

One of the most sought after skills in editing is the ability to work with music. We start by teaching you how to analyse, audition and select the perfect music track for any scene. We then show you how to cut it up, reorder it and align the most powerful parts of the track with the most powerful parts of your sequence.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Select the right track
• Create musical positioning
• Loop & compress music
• Build beat cutting variation
• Start & end scenes with music

Cutting B Roll

Watching a seamlessly cut sequence is one of the most enjoyable experiences for an audience. How the shots are pieced together and connected to the dialogue is at the very core of an editors skillset. We teach you all of the rules, logic and stylisation principles for high end shot flow.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Construct visual grammar
• Build a pictorial arc
• Control continuity
• Achieve Fluid Shot Flow
• Connect to your dialogue

Actuality Editing

Observational style shooting is one of the most popular genres in the world and is therefore one of the most useful to master. This genre has it’s own unique set of rules, logic and pitfalls which we guide you through in great detail.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Breakdown actuality elements
• Compress high shooting ratios
• Eliminate continuity errors
• Manage character geography
• Underlaying and gelling

Intercutting

Having the ability to take multiple narratives, interviews and events and then weave them seamlessly together proves that you have an elite level understanding of structure. We break down these powerful journalistic skills used at the very top of the editing world.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Weave multiple elements together
• Identify jump off points
• Tell stories from multiple perspectives
• Create comedy & drama
• Build multiple intercutting structures

Editing Dialogue

What characters say and how they say it are often the foundations of any sequence. We teach you how to compress, re-order, structure and build dialogue into dramatic narrative arcs.

In this section you’ll learn:

• Structure a dialogue arc
• Journalistically re-order
• Start & end sequences
• Divide into dialogue islands
• Streamline & finesse

But We’re Just Getting Started…

Throughout the course you’ll learn hundreds of pro level techniques that you can replicate in your edits right away.

Assembly

• Breaking down scene components
• Pre-visualising visual narratives
• Illustrative vs sequential B Roll
• Crafting intonation & inflection
• Compressing high shooting ratios

Rough Cut

• The rules of character action
• How to craft effective jump cuts
• The rules of in vision interviews
• Multiple scene tonalities
• How to design scene space

Stylisation

• Creating visual crescendos
• Stylisation templates
• Building an effective montage
• Scoring against scene type
• Manipulating camera movement

Fine Cut

• Decompressing character delivery
• Iron out erratic performances
• How to fix dialogue issues
• Splitting narratives
• Fine cut corrections