Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
I help editors level up into feature films, TV, and documentaries by cutting the kind of scenes that get them hired: skool.com/the-go-to-editor/about 7 Years of Editing Knowledge in one compilation video. Free Mini-Course: secreteditinghacks.com
"The Science of Editing" by @ThisGuyEdits and Dr. Karen Pearlman, based on her book "Cutting Rhythms - Intuitive Film Editing": amzn.to/2cqkz5J
Dr. Karen Pearlman is a lecturer in screen production at Macquarie University and the author of 'Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing' (Focal Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015). Her film 'Woman with an Editing Bench' won the national ATOM award for Best Short Fiction and the Australian Screen Editors Guild award for Best Editing in a short film.
THIS GUY EDITS (TGE) is a youtube channel by film editor Sven Pape, an A.C.E. award nominee, whose credits include work for directors James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Sundance filmmaker Mark Webber.
EPISODES:
00:00 Top 5 Problems with Student Films
09:04 Why Does an Edit Feel Right
20:25 Onscreen Drafting
28:36 Secret Editing Hacks
29:13 5 Thing Film Editors Literally Do
39:31 Be a Filmmaker Who Edits
53:36 Why Action Movies Are Spectacular... And Boring
1:05:50 The Editor's Secret: What Directors Don't See & AI Can't Copy
1:14:09 EditRave 2023 FREE Online Summit: editrave.com
1:15:20 The Editor's Secret: Part II
1:21:51 "The Kuleshov Effect" is Wrong!
1:35:17 5 Career Mistakes Beginner Editors Should Avoid: youtu.be/rCE9GVE2ros
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SOURCES:
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind) by Andy Clark: amzn.to/2hP3m7d
First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors by Gabriella Oldham: amzn.to/2h0i0tG
The Extended Mind by Andy Clark & David Chalmers, Published in Analysis 58:10-23, 1998
"A Cognitive Approach to Documentary Film", by Dr. Karen Pearlman, edited by Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017
Talks:
Karen’s Delivery of conference Paper in Zurich:
https://blog.zhdk.ch/zdok/2018/rhythm...
Note: the discussion of the materials in SoE5 starts at about 25 minutes & 30 seconds
Tim J. Smith – presenting his work at ZDOK in Zurich https://blog.zhdk.ch/zdok/2018/explor...
Noe: At 2 minutes and 30 seconds he shows the same Bladerunner clip as we are using and explains his theories about it
At 27 mins 30 secs and at 33 mins 30 seconds he shows a heat map of where gazes are while watching a film
Additional Research:
Tim J Smith
An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Vittorio Gallese article on 'Embodied Simulation'
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f...
Maarten Coëgnarts, Miklós Kiss, Peter Kravanja, and Steven Willemsen 'Seeing yourself in thePast'
http://www.kravanja.eu/pages/CKKW2016...
Music by Epidemic Sound. Get a free trial: thisguyedits.com/epidemic
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➜ MY FREE MINI-COURSE-
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➜ ONLINE EDITING COURSE-
thegotoeditor.com
➜ PATREON MEMBERSHIP-
patreon.com/thisguyedits
➜ MY EDITING SETUP-
kit.co/thisguyedits
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I help editors level up into feature films, TV, and documentaries by cutting the kind of scenes that get them hired: skool.com/the-go-to-editor/about 7 Years of Editing Knowledge in one compilation video. Free Mini-Course: secreteditinghacks.com
"The Science of Editing" by @ThisGuyEdits and Dr. Karen Pearlman, based on her book "Cutting Rhythms - Intuitive Film Editing": amzn.to/2cqkz5J
Dr. Karen Pearlman is a lecturer in screen production at Macquarie University and the author of 'Cutting Rhythms, Intuitive Film Editing' (Focal Press/Taylor & Francis, 2015). Her film 'Woman with an Editing Bench' won the national ATOM award for Best Short Fiction and the Australian Screen Editors Guild award for Best Editing in a short film.
THIS GUY EDITS (TGE) is a youtube channel by film editor Sven Pape, an A.C.E. award nominee, whose credits include work for directors James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Sundance filmmaker Mark Webber.
EPISODES:
00:00 Top 5 Problems with Student Films
09:04 Why Does an Edit Feel Right
20:25 Onscreen Drafting
28:36 Secret Editing Hacks
29:13 5 Thing Film Editors Literally Do
39:31 Be a Filmmaker Who Edits
53:36 Why Action Movies Are Spectacular... And Boring
1:05:50 The Editor's Secret: What Directors Don't See & AI Can't Copy
1:14:09 EditRave 2023 FREE Online Summit: editrave.com
1:15:20 The Editor's Secret: Part II
1:21:51 "The Kuleshov Effect" is Wrong!
1:35:17 5 Career Mistakes Beginner Editors Should Avoid: youtu.be/rCE9GVE2ros
-----------------------------------
SOURCES:
Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (Philosophy of Mind) by Andy Clark: amzn.to/2hP3m7d
First Cut 2: More Conversations with Film Editors by Gabriella Oldham: amzn.to/2h0i0tG
The Extended Mind by Andy Clark & David Chalmers, Published in Analysis 58:10-23, 1998
"A Cognitive Approach to Documentary Film", by Dr. Karen Pearlman, edited by Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer, Palgrave MacMillan, 2017
Talks:
Karen’s Delivery of conference Paper in Zurich:
https://blog.zhdk.ch/zdok/2018/rhythm...
Note: the discussion of the materials in SoE5 starts at about 25 minutes & 30 seconds
Tim J. Smith – presenting his work at ZDOK in Zurich https://blog.zhdk.ch/zdok/2018/explor...
Noe: At 2 minutes and 30 seconds he shows the same Bladerunner clip as we are using and explains his theories about it
At 27 mins 30 secs and at 33 mins 30 seconds he shows a heat map of where gazes are while watching a film
Additional Research:
Tim J Smith
An Attentional Theory of Continuity Editing
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Vittorio Gallese article on 'Embodied Simulation'
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f...
Maarten Coëgnarts, Miklós Kiss, Peter Kravanja, and Steven Willemsen 'Seeing yourself in thePast'
http://www.kravanja.eu/pages/CKKW2016...
Music by Epidemic Sound. Get a free trial: thisguyedits.com/epidemic
★- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ★
Want More THIS GUY EDITS? ☆Connect With Me:☆
➜ MY FREE MINI-COURSE-
secreteditinghacks.com
➜ ONLINE EDITING COURSE-
thegotoeditor.com
➜ PATREON MEMBERSHIP-
patreon.com/thisguyedits
➜ MY EDITING SETUP-
kit.co/thisguyedits
★- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ★
orcid.org/0000-0001-5301-3882
