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title: Video Editing
description: Video editing is the craft of assembling footage into a coherent, engaging story — covering cuts, pacing, structure, and finishing, independent of any single tool, with DaVinci Resolve as a free professional platform. You will understand how to organize a project, build a rough cut, refine rhythm and continuity, and deliver a polished edit.
category: arts-design
subcategory: video-production
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/video-editing
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# Video Editing

Video editing is the craft of assembling footage into a coherent, engaging story — covering cuts, pacing, structure, and finishing, independent of any single tool, with DaVinci Resolve as a free professional platform. You will understand how to organize a project, build a rough cut, refine rhythm and continuity, and deliver a polished edit.

## Available Resources

1 Videos • 2 Books • 2 Websites

## Websites

### 1. No Film School

Editing section of the independent filmmaking publication, mixing craft articles with interviews of working feature and television editors. Useful for seeing how professionals structure scenes and make cutting decisions, rather than for step-by-step software instruction.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://nofilmschool.com/tags/editing

**Tags:** film-editing, post-production, editor-interviews, filmmaking

### 2. r/editors — professional editors community and wiki

Subreddit for working editors, with a maintained wiki covering hardware, codecs and proxy workflows, rates, and career paths. Threads focus on professional practice — client management, delivery specs, NLE-agnostic craft — rather than beginner software questions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/wiki/index

**Tags:** film-editing, post-production, professional-practice, reddit, workflows

## Youtubes

### 1. Casey Faris (YouTube channel)

**Author:** Casey Faris

Free tutorial channel dedicated to DaVinci Resolve, covering editing, color grading, and Fusion from first project through advanced node workflows. Videos track current Resolve releases; Faris also runs ResolveCon, the community conference for Resolve educators.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@CaseyFaris

**Tags:** davinci-resolve, color-grading, fusion, video-editing, tutorials

### 2. Every Frame a Painting — How Does an Editor Think and Feel?

**Author:** Tony Zhou & Taylor Ramos

Video essay by editor Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos on editorial instinct — how editors judge timing and emotion rather than follow rules — using shot-by-shot breakdowns of Hannah and Her Sisters and The Empire Strikes Back and insights from Kahn, Schoonmaker, and Murch.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3eITC01Fg

**Tags:** film-editing, video-essay, editing-theory, film-analysis

## Podcasts

### 1. Art of the Cut (podcast and interview series)

**Author:** Steve Hullfish, ACE

Steve Hullfish's long-running interview series with the editors of major films and series (Oppenheimer, Barbie, Succession), available as podcast episodes and full transcripts. Covers structural decisions, director collaboration, and workflow on real productions.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://aotc.borisfx.com/art-of-the-cut

**Tags:** film-editing, editor-interviews, post-production, feature-films

## Videos

### 1. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

**Author:** Wendy Apple (director)

Wendy Apple's 2004 documentary on the history and craft of film editing, with Walter Murch, Thelma Schoonmaker, Spielberg, Scorsese, and Tarantino explaining how editing shapes performance, rhythm, and story, including side-by-side recut examples.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-cutting-edge-the-magic-of-movie-editing

**Tags:** film-editing, documentary, editing-history, film-craft

## Books

### 1. On Film Editing: An Introduction to the Art of Film Construction

**Author:** Edward Dmytryk

Edward Dmytryk's 1984 manual of practical cutting rules — when to cut on movement, how to handle entrances, exits, and reaction shots — drawn from five decades of studio work. The 2018 Routledge reissue adds chapter lessons and exercises.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1138584320?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** film-editing, cutting-technique, continuity-editing, classic-hollywood

### 2. In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing (2nd Edition)

**Author:** Walter Murch

Walter Murch's essay on why cuts work, built around his Rule of Six and the eye-blink as an emotional cue. Explains how editors judge a cut by emotion, story, and rhythm rather than mechanics; the second edition covers digital editing.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1879505622?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** film-editing, editing-theory, walter-murch, rule-of-six

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