CREATIVE VIDEO EDITING – loved by broadcast filmmakers

Creative video editing techniques used by the pros and taught by a veteran, international award-winning editor.

Created by: Andrew St.Pierre White
Award-winning TV broadcaster and director

What Will I Learn?

• You will know how to edit videos that entertain and inspire your audience.
• You will know how to capture an audience using creative editing techniques taught by an international award winning editor
• You will appreciate that good editing is every bit as important as good content gathering.
• You will know how to turn your amateur videos into professional productions with creative editing flair.
• Good editing isn't an optional extra if you want to create inspiring videos. I'll teach you many techniques used over decades in TV production.
• Neglect of the editing process and creativity is the most common mistake young filmmakers make. Don't follow the wrong trend!
• Great footage + average editing = average result. Average footage + great editing = great result.
• How to work with film and program directors to form long-lived partnerships.

Requirements

• A basic understanding of editing software is required.
• You will need a quality video editing software that permits multi-layered audio.
• An understanding of how to import media (footage) onto the hard-drive/s and then to create a time-line. A basic knowledge of these things is needed.
• While this course may assist you in choosing the correct software for editing the way professionals do, we do not compare editing software products.
• While we use Adobe Premier, this is not significant to the learner. You will be able to follow using any quality editing software such as Da Vinci Resolve, Avid, Final Cut Pro, etc.

Target audience

• Please consider this course if you want to improve your creativity at the editing stage of making videos.
• Please don't take this course if you are mainly seeking to improve your technical ability in using editing software. This is not a how-to-use software course.
• You need to already understand the basics of edit software, and now want to learn creative editing tactics from a professional editor
• Editing beginners struggling to understand techniques to make videos that entertain and capture the audience will benefit from this course.
• Editors working on music videos, documentaries, weddings, YouTube and other similar clips will benefit from the editing techniques taught in this course.
• Filmmakers looking for further insight into the affect of effects, sound tracks, music and more.
• Amateur videos made to look like professional productions.
• You want to be taught by someone that produces TV shows, documentaries and factual programming for external TV networks and our own YouTube channel.