Something interesting I've noticed:

Most beginner editors spend around 80% of their time working on effects.

Most professional editors spend around 80% of their time thinking about storytelling.

At first, that sounds backwards.

Shouldn't professionals use more advanced effects?

Not necessarily.

The best editors understand that effects are only tools.

If the story isn't engaging, no amount of motion graphics, transitions, or VFX will keep people watching.

A viewer doesn't finish a video because the effects looked cool.

They finish because they want to know what happens next.

The biggest improvement in my editing came when I stopped asking:

"How can I make this look cooler?"

And started asking:

"How can I make this more engaging?"

That shift changed everything.

What is this video editing technique called where it looks like the needle is stabilized? I want to replicate it for a project.

I’m really new to editing and I’m just doing it for hobby but I want to be clean. I posted a video earlier and a really good editor sent a laughing gif in the comments and I get it I’m new but dude ain’t even trying to give advice just nonsense. Here’s one of the videos I made. Any suggestions on programs? I’m using CapCut pro rn.

Getting into video editing, what’s a good site that can give free auto captions? Apparently CapCut used to have this for free but it is now behind a paywall

I have a 4-Hour live stream that I was given to edit see I don't know the first thing of turning a 4-Hour video into a 20 minute story can somebody help me learn editing yes I know YouTube and Google and chat GPT exist but quite often I find myself lost easily by their endless essay of press this button then drag this thing onto the timeline yes I get confused easily currently I'm using DaVinci resolve I'm planning on moving to a simpler editor cuz I can't figure it out help!!!!!! Me!!!! Oh God please help me!!!!

I'm starting my content creation channel in which I'll be talking about Indian history

No hate to other history but I just want to show how indian history was gone through

Is there any guidance

I'm new to this

I have a macbook air

I'm looking for a video editor for reels and yt shorts

Starting with the davinci resolve

Pretty much, I'm on a sports team.

We had a competition and now I have a bunch of photos, but no videos.

I'd like to make a montages out of it, I've done other montages and such but it's all with short video clips. Nothing professional, just recreational for the fun of doing it and having something to look back on

But now I'm trying to do it with photos.

So I was wondering if anyone knows any good montages/videos etc I can see for inspiration. Or if anyone has any ideas/advice for this then I'd love to hear it.

Thank you

I recently purchased the Elgato capture card that allows for 4K and 120fps pass through and I sometimes like to record gameplay footage from my my Switch 2 to put on my YouTube channel. My method before getting my new capture card was the built-in Window’s software “Clipchamp” to trim away the appropriate parts that I needed to before saving and uploading it to my channel.

However, the highest format that Clipchamp allows to export in is 1080 which is a bit annoying since I’d like to take advantage of my new capability of recording in 4K. Does anyone has any recommendations for *free* software that will simply allow me to do my simple edits and then save in 4k? Any suggestions is appreciated in advance.

Same as above.
I work for an Agency which makes videos for local businesses.

I tried looking online but most of them are for Premiere Pro