Tips and Tricks
Published by Graham Walker on 7 Sep 2005 at 4:37 am.
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Find some fresh eyes
One of the most interesting ways I find to look at an edit with fresh eyes is to show your cut to someone else. The point here is not about any feedback you will get but the key is to pay attention to how you react internally knowing that someone else is watching it.
I am always amazed at how different an edit feels to me when I know an outsider is watching (it does not work nearly as well if the person is involved with your video somehow). Slower sections feel painfully slow, sloppy editing becomes embarrassing, confusing sections bewildering. I even tend to stand back and watch it from behind them so I can keep an eye on their body language. This can also be very revealing. Small smiles at the right places or how they move their eyes away from the action if it is dragging.
So even if you don’t listen to a word they say you will learn a lot by putting yourself in this situation.
