Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Editing vacation videos to be genuinely engaging and worth watching can be difficult. You start with that beautiful panoramic shot of a Hawaiian beach...and then you've lost half your audience after 2-3 second because you held the shot for too long and added a cheesy cross dissolve afterwards. In this video, I'll walk through seven quick tips for how I edit our vacation videos in Premiere Pro, showing specific shot types and techniques that will help make better memories and get more viewers watching until the end.

0:00 Intro
1:05 Capturing
2:50 Film Vocabulary
5:29 First 3 Seconds
7:35 Editing to the Action & Beat
10:40 Transitions
14:22 Speed
16:32 Color