When you are a videographer who is planning to create and sell HD stock footage video, there is one skill that you need to expertise on apart from videography. The skill is video editing. Only the determined and successful videographers know how difficult the process of video editing is. One can even say that great videographers find shooting 4K stock footage or taking pictures easier than editing them—the reason why most people hire different editing teams for Stock Videos. However, with the right tips and techniques, this skill can be handled as well. All you need to know is what to do and how!
Video Editing Techniques You Need To Master For A Stock Video Footage
Editing a stock video footage is all about managing cuts to create a natural-looking hard-hitting storyline. So here are the type of cut effects that one needs to master to edit an Indian stock footage or any other HD stock footage video as well.
The tools you need to shoot best Indian stock Footage
The Standard Cut
Joining the last frame of one clip to the first frame of the next clip is what Standard Cut looks like. Easy to do, but doesn’t look professional and indeed not helpful in storytelling.
Montage
Quick cuts generally combined with a background music for a flashback effect.
Cross Dissolve
Overlapping layers or dissolution is used to show a passage of time. A common effect to show a time jump.
Cutaway Shots
These are additional shots that help in the building of a scene.
CrossCut
Also known as the parallel editing, Cross-Cut can be used to connect two HD stock footage videos to show two different stories running together at the same time.
Fade In/Out
This effect is generally used when you want to show a dream sequence with 4K stock footages.
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J or L Cut
The name is taken from the way the frames are set in a Video Editor Tool. This Cut has mostly to play with the audio. The audio from the next or the previous video is continued with these cuts.
Smash Cut
These cuts are used when you want to make sudden transitions in your storytelling with Stock video footage.
Cutting on Action
This joins two 4K stock footage on the point of action. Suppose a door is broken, you cut at the kick and then show the inside scene with another Indian stock footage.
Invisible Cut
Invisible Cut proves your expertise as an editor. It is not easy for anyone to create a story that looks seamless when you can give yourself a treat.
What should You Keep in Mind while Shooting 4K Video Footage
Although, these are the techniques that help an editor make a story with Indian Stock Footage and other types of Stock video footage, learning the cuts is not all. One needs to learn other things as well, for the editing process. For example, use the right tools, the art of storytelling, adding audio, know which systems to choose for editing, color gradings, and, last but not least, introducing graphics. There are reasons why the film production takes more time than the shooting because it actually depends on the editing, whether or not the story you wanted to say comes across. It is a tough job, but it is possible, of course. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have so many films today.