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Legend
May 18, 2019

It's wonderful you are enthusiastic about the final cut and look of a movie or product. I hope you stick with it.

In essence what you see as the final cut is like a finished puzzle. It looks great. Sounds great. It's perfect.

But you can't really know how it was done unless you also know what 'source material' was available for the editor to work with.

In other words, were there puzzle pieces that just didn't fit right so the editor didn't use them. The editor has to make choices to tell a story or sell a product, ( same thing basically ), and without knowing what was available it's impossible to know what choices were made, what challenges were involved ( timing, pace, continuity, interpolation with soundtrack, etc. ).

There are schools which teach film making and that's a good place to start out.  They generally teach about 'appreciation' of the media and it's history using great film makers and editors as examples, as well as technical info ( scripts, storyboards, lighting, camera tech ( like depth of field, lens choices, ISO, FPS, shutter speeds, etc. ), and also editing suites ( so you can edit what you shot with the school supplied camera for your projects ).

Legend
May 18, 2019

That's one way to go about it.

The other way is to go to work ( maybe start as an apprentice of volunteer type person) at a good editing place ( post film house).

That way you learn from those who are your superiors in the company.. and as time allows they explain things to you over the years.

In most cases the editors HAVE NOT shot their own movies with cameras and lighting and so on... they ONLY edit.  But they have learned over the years ( via communication with showrunners and directors of photography and DIRECTORS of the films who have usually a first edit session for final cut before producers do what they want ).