Learning the Basics of Movie Editing
most costly preparations, the job of editing a Hollywood film after it is completed is almost as big as the job of shooting it.
In actual truth, you-the non-professional or the beginner-can come closer than Hollywood to cutting in the camera, because your picture plan is likely to be far more simple. But you too will inevitably have to do some final editing.
Film with mechanical faults such as edge fog, scenes where the subject gawked into the camera, scenes which were subsequently reshot because a better angle was discovered – all will have to come out.
Such deletions are obvious and inevitable. What is most important about final editing, what indeed makes it almost mandatory, is that you have an opportunity to look at your film the way the audience will see it. You get an exclusive preview, you have a chance to see how
