5 Reasons Why Your Videos Suck (Editing Edition)

1. You use too many transitions
2. You use too many montages
3. You Can’t edit to the beat/music
4. You don’t know how to trim the fat
5. You don’t know how to hide your edits
6. You are jump cutting, not using angles, B roll, etc…
7. Ties into previous point.
8. L Cuts (audio continues past visual clip cut)
9. J Cuts, Audio comes in before visual clip starts)
10. B Roll (Cover cuts with B Roll, rule of thumb, at least 2-3 broll clips back to back)
11. Bonus Your Audio is bad
12. It is too loud, too quiet, I cannot hear someone talking, it pops when you cut, wind noise is excessive, music is overpowering, no audio (even with music)
13. This is the number one thing most viewers will struggle to tolerate
14. MONITOR YOUR AUDIO
15. Watch for peaking/clipping
16. Set dialogue to -9-12db, music to -10db and 10 less when someone is talking, sound effects present, but in background
17. Mixing sound should be part of your editing process, use headphones and then check on monster.
18. Use crossfades on audio clips to smooth out pops on cuts
19. Clean ambient audio will save you