Video cuts are used to edit transitions in films and videos, they play a key role in storytelling. It’s on the editor to choose the best types of cuts for the narrative.
Video cuts (also called movie cuts or film cuts) are transitions in films and videos that allow filmmakers to weave multiple camera shots together. These transitions play a key role in visual storytelling, and it’s on the editor to choose the best types of cuts to serve the film’s core narrative.
8 Essential Cuts:
- Hard/Standard Cut
- Jump Cut
- L & J Cut
- Action Cut
- Cut aways
- Cross Cut
- Montage
- Match Cut
HARD CUT:
The hard cut is the most basic type ofcut in editing. This type of cut is utilized when you want to cut from clip to clip without any type of transition or where you cut from the end of one clip to the beginning of another.
JUMP CUT:
The jump cut is a technique that allows the editor to jump forward in time.
To fit the textbook definition of a jump cut, it must break a continuous shot into two parts. This causes the subject in the video to abruptly
“Jump” to a different position — hence the name.
L & J CUT:
J-cut is a split edit. The audio track from the second scene overlaps the first scene’s video. You would hear the audio of the second scene before the video cuts in.
L cut means is that you are hearing the audio from the previous shot, even though we’ve moved on to another shot. So, the audience is looking at clip b ctr-l ; audio from clip a.
In a j cut, the next scene’s audio plays before the image changes. With L cuts, the audio from the preceding scene carries over, and then the visuals shift.
EDITING ON ACTION/ACTION CUT:
The basic idea of cutting for action is that the editor cuts from one shot to another and matches the action of the shots. Editing is all about motivation.
Cutting on action is when an editor cuts in the middle of an action to another shot that matches the first shot’s action.
CUT AWAYS:
Cutaways take the audience away from the main action or subject
A cutaway shot is a supplementary shot that “cuts away“ from the main action to indicate something else in the space, such as an object or location.
CROSS/PARALLEL CUT:
Cuting back and forth between two or more different scenarios.
The technique of the cross-cut is where you cut between two different scenes that are happening at the same time in other spaces
Parallel editing is used to add
Suspense, speed, and contrast to a film.
MONTAGE:
Montage the technique of selecting, editing,and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.
Montages allow filmmakers to convey a significant amount
Of information to an audience in a short period by juxtaposing diverse images, compressing time through multiple narrative threads together.
MATCH CUT:
Match cut is cutting from one scene to a totally different one, but has objects in the two scenes. “matched ” so that they occupy the same place in the shot’s frame.