These 5 steps will have you telling great stories if your edit is 5 minutes or less. Don’t know what video editing skill to learn next? Just answer 19 questions and in 6 minutes you’ll get a personalised recommendation of what skill to work on next. And best of all it’s completely FREE. To take […]

Following some YouTube tutorials is not how to become a better freelance video editor. You need actionable advice that helps you with video editing storytelling and craft. Here you’ll learn 25 tips and lessons from a pro commercial/documentary editor that will actually help you become a better freelance video editor.         00:00 […]

It can be super overwhelming when thinking about how to use stock footage in your project. There are so many stock footage sites to choose from for your project, but also, should you pay for it or should the client? In this episode of The Video Editing Podcast you’ll learn: – What different types of […]

There are 3 skills that are the most important video editing skills for freelancing. Every in-demand editor possesses these 3 video editing skills. What are they, why are they important, and how can you develop them? The most in-demand freelance editors in the world have clients coming to them with exciting work, and they’re charging […]

In this episode of The Video Editing Podcast, we discuss the 5 signs that indicate you need to work on your Client Relation skills. We explain how stagnating work, unreliable income, limited job options, questioning your career path, and hating your work are all symptoms of poor client relations. By the end of this episode, […]

You’ve taken on a job and you’ve agreed to the delivery deadline, but then you receive the hard drive of footage from the client and you see they’ve shot days worth of footage for a 2 min vid. What do you do? In this episode you’ll learn steps to take to avoid overwhelm and find […]

If you’re in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s or even 60s and you realise that your work is really not that fulfilling, it can feel really daunting to switch careers. You know that you need to do something because the idea of staying in the same situation sounds miserable. But if you move to a […]

Matt was feeling unfulfilled creatively and realised he had no passion for his Physical Therapy job. He’d been keen on the film industry for a while but never really explored that interest. The pandemic was the nail in the coffin and he decided to take his freedom into his own hands and pursue video editing. […]

When you’re starting out you may be tempted to just say yes to any job that comes your way. That is a sure fire way to work with terrible clients, burning out as a result. It took me years to see patterns in some of the nightmare clients I worked with. In this episode of […]

We’re not talking about basic technical things beginner YouTube editors do, this episode of The Video Editing Podcast goes deeper on the fundamentals of expert professional video editing for commercials and documentary editing. You’ll learn about storytelling, money, career mistakes, and creative faux pas. What are the main things that inexperienced editors put too much […]