A good video I watched about-what exactly editors do.

"When the student searches the teacher comes".

I've often found this to be a really true saying.

This video is from a really good professional editor, (This guy edits' Youtube channel) giving back to the community grass roots editing, and I found him, I'm not even sure how, I stumbled on his Channel. But I did, and he;s been breaking down the real craft of editing, and whilst I want to talk about his other video's, this one here is a great start to what an editor does, 'according to science' (Dr Karen Pearlman) of how an editor goes through five processes of getting to the final timeline and culmination of a piece, whether its a two minute video or a feature length, we all do these five things and when I heard of the processes I was like, "Ahh, I do do that".

Here are the five, I took a picture of the five steps that editors critically go through.

1. Watch

2. Sort

3. Remember

4. Select

5. Compose.

five things

Over all, the scientist breaking down the five elements that we editors do, whilst I am very behind on editing narrative videos, I would definitely be volunteering to edit short films but i'm on the most basic laptop ever till I can build my own.

So I would be editing everyday, and I really mean that, because editing is fun for me, its a process that doesn't feel like a chore but an honor, if i'm working by myself; I get to complete a video that will entertain, and I'm the one who got to put it together. If I did have that access to the daddy of editing machines, i'd be editing motivation video's all day every day, so in between my work, I can be really creative with the music and the shots of the athletes, my passions bodybuilding, so it would be those 'athletes', and some really good hip hop from DMX for example.

But, I digress, the actual five process's was amazing to hear from Dr Pearlman, and seeing them broken down into finite examples, and the over arching message I got, which, I'm going to be honest I don't have but I will work on is the patience of watching all my footage and getting to know it, so that i'm planning and saving myself days of editing, and also coming up with idea's of what goes together, and after watching, selecting, or grouping my shots together, helps again with the planning and saving days of wasted energy, editing shots I haven't pre-watched.

For some reason, I have always found the process of pre-watching my video's to be really boring because I just want to jump onto my editing software; Premier Pro, and begin putting things together.

So my take home is to make piece with my time, show patience, and make the time to watch all of the footage I've shot, and ingest this internally, and having a sense of all the footage and where I can take it once I begin selecting and putting shots into bins.

In the video interview Dr Pearlman who studied what editors do, breaking down the process of naming cuts and sorting them according to what 'I' 'We' ( what the director wants) this also has an impact on the final out come of the editing process.

Then at the end, we have the composition of the edit, which is where 'I' or 'We' as editors place our shots on the time line and rearranging them to what we feel (intuit) what we think is right for the series of shots, or the story of the time line.

I'm watching everything, 'This guy edits' puts together, because it really shows the inside lane of what editors are thinking about when editing narrative story's is exactly the skill set I want to receive training from at Film School.