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- Let's talk about rhythm in video editing.
It's not something you heard about enough and it's
definitely not something your favorite YouTubers tell you
about, but it can,
single-handedly take your video from looking like you made
it on windows,
movie maker to impress your kids to a cinematic video,
that it keep your audience blue. In the last minute,
it's about using the right sequence of cuts to bring about
your story in a way that your audience loses sight of the
edit.
And instead it gets spoiled into your story because that's
why you create videos in the first place, right?
To tell your story.
So in this video will help you understand rhythm in video
editing.
And how you can apply them to your videos.
Let's jump right in.
Let's begin by understanding what is rhythm?
Rhythm in editing is how you sequence and pace your shots to
control the mood and viewing experience of your audience.
Rhythm is shaped by timing and basing the clips in your
video for the purpose of creating cycles of tension.
Angelic. Sounds complex? Let me give you an example.
This famous scene from psycho is a brilliant example of
rhythm.
You can see that the cuts start at a slow pace.
Here, each shot is taking longer than six seconds. However,
as the tension builds into the scene,
that gut starts to get faster.
Each shot is around three to five seconds here.
This finally culminates into the killers,
stabbing the protagonist with the knife.
By this point, the cuts are every half a second,
so that you literally don't have time to think.
And your mind is now hijacked by the very gruesome act that
is happening in front of your eyes. Similarly,
in this scene from Christopher Nolan's masterpiece
Inception, the cuts are slow.
Initially when Leo enters the room and finds out the chaos,
as he seizes by sitting on the edge of the window,
the base of the gut start getting faster and gradually as
the storyline progresses,
it gets even faster to build a tension till the very end.
The general rule of rhythm is that the longer the shot,
the more relaxing, calm,
or suspenseful the scene is the shorter, the shot,
the more tense or more exciting the scene is this is because
the longer the cuts,
the more time you take to analyze what's happening in the
scene and assess how you really want to feel about it.
On the other hand, the shorter, the cuts,
the less time you have to process what's happening in the
scene.
Since the frame has already progressed to the next one,
and you need to catch up action.
Action flims like Avengers usually have fast cuts to
build a tension
between shots on the other hand,
emotional or dramatic scenes like this one from Lala land
have longer guts to let you absorb the gravity of what is
happening.
Sometimes the longer shots gradually shorten to accelerate
the tempo of the scene and an exaggerated long take can
create suspense and tension.
Setting the pace of an edit is vital
to the storytelling aspect and
for establishing the gender stylistic field of the film.
This rhythm is created by a series of cuts and cannot be
determined by one or two consecutive cuts alone.
And editor needs to know just how much time is necessity to
give their audience a breather to absorb the moment.
Or just went to trim or cut the shot before it lingers on
for too long.
These ups and downs of waves are important to avoid moving
at a monotonous speed and evoking the emotions in your
audience that you want them to feed. Now,
let's talk about the standard duration of cuts in a scene.
The average length of cuts in the scene is about four to six
seconds, a normal scene,
which is not looking to evoke any strong emotions.
Would we at this space?
A good film has normally cuts most of the time.
It's the flat spots off the roller coaster between the ups
and downs.
And that's fine for YouTube videos and talk shows.
The recommended length of the cuts is between four to six
seconds to this ensures that the story keeps moving forward
and the visuals keep changing every few seconds for your
audience.
And they don't feel stuck up at one scene for too long.
In fact, this is something we follow for our YouTube videos,
where you notice that we usually switch the camera angle or
switch the focal length,
offer short or introduce a beetle every four to six seconds.
Now let's talk about a few super easy ways that you can use
to ensure the visuals in your video keeps switching every
four to six seconds. The first ones are match cut.
A match cut is any transition audio or visual
that uses elements
from the previous shot Aussie to fluidly.
Bring the viewer through to the next one.
This cuts can also happen within the same scene
with the help of
different camera angles.
This is also widely used by YouTubers to reduce the
monotony of the scene by switching between frames
every few seconds.
The default from regular cuts because they
provide a dramatic connection between separate events or
concept, which is not the case with me or hot cuts.
You can easily create match cuts on in videos timeline.
All you have to do is add your footage to the timeline and
trim it to the part where you want the match cut,
and then line up the footage in the second angle to start
from right where you ended the first clip.
Another popular way to reduce the monotony is by
using B-Rolls.
In simpler terms,
B roll is the secondary footage that you can cut to and come
back to the main footage. For example,
when you're talking to the camera,
that's your arrow because that's your primary footage.
And then you can add another clip that showcases what you're
trying to say, that that's the B-Roll.
Your voiceover continues throughout the scene,
but only the visuals keeps switching and comes back.
This gives visual cues to the viewer and helps them
understand the message of the video better. Let's say,
you're speaking about artificial intelligence.
The frame can then cut to B-Rolls of videos of robots,
and then come back to you to break the monotonous flow of
the video.
The best part about B-Rolls is that you can actually use
stock footages.
And this is something you'd see your favorite YouTubers do
all the time.
Given that in video already comes built in with a stock
library of high quality stock footage.
You can very easily find a clip that you would like to add
as a B-Roll. Added to your scene as a layer on top of the
primary footage,
and then set the in at odd times for when you want the seat
to switch to B-Roll and back the thought and the easiest way
to switch your visuals every four to five seconds is by
using Graphics.
Such as Text or CTAs that can highlight the
important bits. And again,
add variety to the frame and keep your audience hooked.
Again, if you go back and re-watch this video,
you will see that we use this technique on numerous
occasions to establish important pieces of information.
And again, keep the scene moving at the right rhythm.
This is super easy to new on in video.
All you have to do is go to the text option on the screen
and click on the textile.
You'd like to use from a variety of options available and
import into your timeline.
Now you can edit the text and set in and out times and
you are done.
And that's how you can use simple rules of rhythm in video
editing to control how your audience perceives your story
and keep them view through the screen till the last minute.
If you found this video useful,
you definitely want to check out a playlist on filmmaking
fundamentals where we've covered other,
such concepts like Beatles, transitions, and more.
This is Christine from In-video and I'll see you
in the next one.
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