From the course: Video Editing Techniques for Impactful Content

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Before you edit

Before you edit

There are a few things that you should be keeping in mind before starting the edit of any film or any video. The first one, what emotion you want to convey. Is it a happy emotion? Is it a sad emotion? You want to motivate your audience with your films. You have to really determine what emotions you want to convey with your films already before you start editing. And the second thing you should be keeping in mind is, how do you want the video to start, and how do you want the video to end? For example, in some of my videos, I tend to start really slow. I tend to start with just one frame being there for 10 seconds. And in some video like this one, like the intro of this class, I wanted to start with a lot of cuts, a lot of fast-moving objects. I wanted to have a very high-intense moment because that's going to grab your attention. So those things I already determined before the edit, that that's the beginning I want. And according to that, you can choose the music, you can choose the…

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