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Summary: In this free instructional video clip series, our expert will discuss the basic first steps for someone learning to do video editing. In this lesson, learn about the editing technique referred to as the jump cut.
Paul Volniansky, born (1972) in St Petersburg into family of artists and intellectuals.
He has a BA in film direction from the St Petersburg University of Art and Culture –...read more
"My name is Paul Volniansky and I am here on behalf of expertvillage.com and we are learning about editing. So one of the rules that maybe you have heard it once it is called jump cut. What does it mean jump cuts? I'm going to show you a short example of a jump cut . A jump cut is actually not a good condition between two shots. When they combine shots that are similar sizes, smallest, or when you video tape from the same place or run the video tape from the same place wanting and suddenly we see something else or disappearing this could be in a jump cut. So jump cutting could not be use without meaning but, today actually many of the directors using the jump cut because they want to emphasize something, because they want to break the rule. But, is not just because they want to break the rule they have a idea behind it. So usually we don't use jump cuts. "