Don't Ruin Your Quick Cuts with This Editing Mistake
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
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Eye trace is an editing technique where you anticipate where your viewer’s eyes will be looking within the frame at any moment. It’s crucial to making a sequence feel smooth, especially a fast cut / fast paced one. You'll see this all the time in well edited, fast paced videos. Don't believe me? Next time you watch a movie or tv show and there's a fast paced scene, just remember what we'll go over in this video. This technique improves the editing flow of your fast paced shots. The faster the cuts, the more this technique will need to be applied.
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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - A must know technique for video creators
00:14 - Not a great example
00:38 - You can create very fast cuts with good flow
00:52 - Eye Trace
01:08 - Play by play of why it didn’t work
02:26 - Why this fast cut example DOES work
02:47 - Wide and busy frames will be harder to deal with
03:12 - Big take home tip
03:28 - Learning isolation color grading and other techniques help
03:44 - Basic example for your own videos
04:04 - A storytelling technique every editor should know
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Absolutely love this dude. Definitely want more and more of these editing concept breakdowns!
Agreed. You two are awesome.
Thanks a ton for watching, brotha! 👊🏼 I'll definitely create more.
You are a video editing grandmaster! Keep up the great content!
Well well well, look who entered the comments 😄 thanks for watching duder!
Thanks Dylan. Learn new thing from your video.
Love to hear that 😊 thanks for watching and commenting.
Great to be reminded of this. George Miller and his editors have talked about this quite a bit for the Mad Max movies.
Came here to say this. Fury Road would be borderline incomprehensible without this. Won the Oscar for editing!
Yup! Exactly. Thanks for watching 😊
Great video 👏 One of those things i find you do mostly instinctively in an edit, but eye tracing sums it up perfectly 😀 Also, i find matching up camera movement directions in shots also helps for a smoother flow!
Thanks Adam! Yuppp! Motion match cutting is a great way to improve flow as well
Great tip and well presented!
Thanks for watching 😊
Love this concept. While I *think* I've been doing this by instinct, it's nice to actually have a concept to follow. Thanks!
No problem 😊 sometimes a reminder helps.
Banger video, the breakdown and comparison between the two scenes were amazing.
Thanks Ryan! 👊🏼🤙🏼
Thanks man! Learned something new today!
Happy to help 😊 thanks for watching!
So simple but so important! Mind blown. :)
Stoked you found it useful 😊 thanks for watching and commenting!
This is what I've been waiting/looking for. For years.
Stoked to hear it helped 😊
Thanks for the video Dylan! Always trying to improve this technique in projects I work on.
You're welcome! Thanks so much for watching 👊
Awesome trick, thanks!
Thanks so much for watching!
This was interesting. Something I did not know about. No wonder my videos give people a migraine!!! Very many thanks Dylan. Most useful.
My pleasure, Richard! Thanks for watching 👊🏼
This was gold. Thanks!
Stoked you enjoyed it 😊 thanks for watching!
This is the third time where I am currently doing a project and I get stuck on something in my edit that is very specific, but you somehow make a video about it the very next day or two 😂
😂 once again, I can read your mind!
Thank you so much!!!!helpful information
Thanks for watching, dude!
Great! Thank you Dylan. I love your Storytelling also. It works so good and keeps me in your video. 😊
Really appreciate that 😊 thanks so much for watching!
Awesome tips, Dylan! I am always stoked to see another upload from you. 😌
Thanks a ton for watching and for the support, Chad!
Great topic to cover and very helpful breakdown!!
Thanks so much for watching, amigos! 😊
yo you have " watch tower of china" what a perfect legend example!
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I struggle greatly with fast cutting, but I guess practice is king. Great tips, hopefully this will help me :-)
Practice is definitely king. Just feel the flow and you got it.
To me it was the fact that the clips were panning as soon as we went in to them. Totally jarring to be able to watch anything moving like that. If they had have been cut at larger intervals then that may have helped but as they say they were all over the place.
Ya that too. However if they all flowed in the same direction and were more lined up, it would've been a different story.
Editing 101 💪🏼
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Nice one, Thanks
Thanks for watching, brother!
Thanks very much!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Man 20 year career heavy equipment mechanic here. I’ve done anything and everything a mechanic can do. Built engines, transmissions, hydraulic pumps, tracks, weld everything under the sun back together but the most challenging thing I’ve done in my life is learning cameras/editing. I really enjoy it. It’s always challenging to see what you can make. It’s little stuff like this that makes me excited to learn. Great video
It’s the exact opposite for me 😅 I can’t name a single thing in an engine. Glad I could teach you a little something.
More!
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Informative Vid.
I do quick cut all the time, usually i can get a good music and cut on beat. It feels cool as long as the music is cool.
But I forgot whom, he mentioned when cut, he will feel the logic/feeling, not exactly cut on beat.
So eventually now i try cut on beat/logic(based on what's on screen, movement etc)/and 'eye track-(recently)'
Sounds about right! You can also cut on the off beat and sometime to switch it up so your viewer doesn’t anticipate the cut, have a long clip that breaks the ‘cycle’.
Thank you! Never thought about this!
No problemo! Thanks for watching 👊🏼
Awesome! Thank you! ❤
Thanks so much for watching, Flo!
Freekin Awesome!Thank You
Thanks so much for watching 😊
I had first heard of this from @HillierSmith. I installed Rule of 3rd plugin to FCP so I could line up the eyes perfectly between clips. I want more of these little tidbits.
I’ll pump out more 😊
Great editing tip! I also use the same technique with positioning video's with horizons in their image. I try to keep them at the same level, so that they don't jump up and down. Thanks!
Thanks for watching, Gert! And great call. That's the way to do it 👊🏼
Are there grid lines or something in FCPX that make living things up easier? Thanks. Great video!
You can upload custom grid lines by going to view, choose custom overlay, but I usually just go back and forth between shots.
Anyone else waiting for him to redo the Bad Bunny edit so we could see what it shoulda looked like? -------->🙋♂️
😂 I wish I had the project with the source files. Editing a music video for Bad Bunny would be so dope.
Totally.
@@dylanjohndickersoneven zooming in would have worked…or creating a kaleidoscope effect with the edges (see Simone Ubsdels recent videos) would have made it work.
Not at all trying to criticize, but it would have made the video that much more effective.
"Let me mute this music..." THANK YOU!
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I was kind of hoping you’d fix that video for us to show before and after. I really love what you showed us in the video but that would have made it a little better.
I actually did, but I cut it out for time and because I felt it was redundant because I show an example where it works right after. I'll leave it in next time though. You live and you learn.
@@dylanjohndickerson totally understandable. I wasn’t trying to find fault…I really learned a lot from this, thank you.
Wow! THIS IS BRILLIANT! Thank you Dylan
😄 I really appreciate that amigo! DB is awesome!
I work on this constantly, thanks for the reminder!
I got you, Matthew 👊🏼