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Video University – Ten Commandments of Digital Video Editing

Here is a nice little read if you have a minute. There are always dos and don’ts and such whenever you go into an edit. The folks at videouniversity.com have attempted to put some of those things into a nice list. Of course all rules are meant to be broken so take them for what they are worth.

I’ll add a few:

Thou shalt at least attempt some type of written script or paper edit to at the very least give the editor some starting point, albeit however small, or futile said script shall be.

Thou shalt give the editor some time to work on the edit on his or her own without the interruption of director, producer, writer, client, cinematographer, videographer, executive producer or production assistant.

Thou shalt not ask the editor to review every single cut or parameter change the second after said change is executed thereby giving the editor a bit more time to get the particular thing done.

Thou shalt not give an editor a DVD as a master source reel and expect it to function properly in an offline to online environment without the dubbing to a master tape reel with timecode and/or expect the quality of compressed DVD mpeg material to be the same quality as HD video or 35mm transfered film.

Thou shalt give the editor some time to make a change and review said change before making comment out loud that a glaring, unintentional error needs to be fixed or changed.

Thou shalt keep partying to a minimum in edit suite when edit job is on a tight deadline, least you expect editor to get interrupted or distracted and not be able to finish on time.

So there are many more commandments that these. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below!

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