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I agree completely with your main point. Sadly with YT, jump cuts have become so standard that nobody thinks much about it, except people who compare it to the way this is done on TV or in the movies. However I disagree with the idea that a 10% zoom is enough. TV videos almost never use a 10 percent zoom cut. To really look good you need to zoom at least 40%. But if you are recording in 1080, that may sacrifice too much video quality. This is why I use 4K cameras. With these I can jump from 110% to 155% with no problem, and it looks much more like two separate cameras. When I see a 10% zoom I immediately think that this person was covering a mistake. But with a 40-50% zoom, it just feels like a camera change.
Agreed, Chop Chop Chop - chopping out the gaps in the audio OR just Too-Lazy to add in a few direct effects to make the video way easier on the viewer's eyes. Plus, it represents the creator in a more professional light. Listen Up, PPL - Kevin here knows his stuff! I have learnt a lot from this AWESOME MAN. Cheers
Spot on Kevin!!! I can’t stand those jump cuts. They’re distracting and makes it hard to follow what they’re saying. I’ve tuned out of videos because the cuts were too distracting. What’s worse is in some of those videos they cut off words or cut them too close together. I’ve stopped following channels after a while because they never improved their editing. I prefer the pauses to awkward editing. Your videos are always edited so well.
Ah yes, I did this for the first couple of years of editing 😆I like using cross dissolve these days, it works well for my style of videos. Love how simple and instructional your videos are, with stuff that real people can implement for instant improvement.
I totally agree with you about the jump cuts, but to be honest I'm not a fan of the zoom cuts either I much prefer a simple fade, but I will try doing some zoom cuts on my next video
Hi Kevin. Love your contribution to the pool of talent out there. How's about using a blonde bimbo to paste over the cuts? There are lots of people who can read off autocue without forecasting the weather. Okay, try brunettes. Wish you well in your recovery BigEric David - from an old folks home in Wigan UK
Actually preparing prior to the video, knowing what you are going to say and focusing on it makes for less cuts as well. Far to much jump cutting going on in YT land
I know you're mostly aiming your videos at the talking head youtubers, and there's nothing wrong with that. I still find value in watching your videos even though they often are not for me. Have you considered doing videos aimed at other groups? (In my case, music videos is the kind of video that I try to make. I know that you're a musician to...)
I'll have to keep that in mind since I'm starting again 😄 one of these days it will stick. I'm used to doing live stuff where there aren't any cuts. Always good to see one of your videos! Thanks for the tips 😀
Kevin, you’re just old school. I’ve come to accept that this choppiness is just the nature of the medium. But I will tell you the one habit that I utterly despise, verbal mistakes that are corrected with text on the screen. How hard is it to just make an audio edit!? Seems like it would be quicker also.
@@RikardPeterson That's all well and good, and I enjoy those too, but when someone says "30" in the video and they meant to say "300" and just put that in with a super is just plain lazy.
I think they are just making errors in reciting the scripts and cutting between takes. Honestly if everytime people switched takes they zoomed in and out it would make me dizzy. I think it would be far better if people just had multiple camera angles and or faded between takes instead of jump cuts. But I do think your misreading people making up for lack of ability in oration. Again if people zoomed every three seconds I would get dizzy. I feel like your proposing a way to make bad editing worse. Better advice would be for people to do more takes so they practice more and get longer sections of usable footage. Or to break the script down in to one or two sentence bits with moving camera angles. Either way I think it’s hard cuts which cause more irritation fading would make it a little less abrasive, zooms just makes my eyes notice those cuts more. Keep in mind as an editor you are more hyper aware than an average viewer I actually didn’t notice your cuts until you pointed them out, but the zoom made it impossible to not see so I definitely don’t think it will be better for most people. You see this with younger channels because people get anxiety when filming and are not used to oration. Simply learning how to speak better in my opinion is a much better solution than any editing change. The art of the long take is a lost and under appreciated technique in film but when you watch black and white films you see how less cuts actually grounds you in the scene. It seems like you haven’t contemplated what a thousand changes in zoom over a small video would do to your consciousness. Cutting too much is the error as far as I can tell and that is derived from insecurity about personal delivery.
Also worth mentioning how the unzoomed chopping sounds disjointed and highlights the edits that we don't wanna notice. The zooming and unzooming acts as emphasis and sidebars too, which is great.
Great point as always, Kevin. I watch a car channel that must have a cut every 5-10 seconds and it is really annoying. Point well taken and I will have to implement this. Have a nice day! 😀
😃 *Good morning Sir, yes zooming a little after a chop, makes the video seem seamless. I try to limit being Infront of the computer for long hours, as I seem to get exhausted the longer I am. Thanks always for your user-friendly tutoriala Sir. GOD BLESS YOU. You could consider writing a short tutorial book also.🖐️👍
I also feel the constant jump cuts are unprofessional and make a video look bad. What you're calling a zoom cut is better, especially when it's 120% or more. The 110% cuts you showed felt (at least for me) just as unpolished as the normal jump cuts. When you first said "zoom cut", I thought you meant a transition that involved motion (either in or out before the cut resets it back to normal), which I've seen a couple of times and feels even more polished, at least to me.
Sadly (says I), jump cuts have become a "feature, not a bug," and on RU-vid ads are used to make a presentation *appear* authentic. Ironically, for me this has meant the jump cut has moved from being the mark of an amateur to being the mark of a fake, slick ad (along with portrait mode and the spokesperson walking and talking with their arm raised as if they are vlogging themselves).
Another technique I've noticed is a cut from a front view to a three-quarter view. As a viewer, I find these annoying because the subject appears to be talking off into space rather than to me.
Sadly, it's not just rookies who are doing this but the people who have been at it long enough to know better. Maybe they should think about rehearsing a bit before recording so they don't have to make so many cuts. 🙂The other trend that I wish would go away is putting their hand over the lens at the end of the video. I don't know why that bothers me so much but it does.
Hi Kevin! Is it best to shoot in 4k to do these zoom shots or is it perfectly okay to do it with 1080p footage? What would you say is the maximum zoom-in percentage you can get away with and still maintain high image quality in 1080p?
Excellent! Professional and proper Editing is key but so is content :) thank you for always posting meaningful film stuff. One question: are there any films made by you that I can watch?
