Edit Better

Hollywood-Tested Strategies for Powerful Video Editing

By: Jeff Bartsch

Narrated by: Jeff Bartsch

Imagine pushing a magic button in your video editing software labeled "better". Any project you edit turns out exactly how you planned, every single time. Your audience is absolutely spellbound, wiping tears from their eyes, laughing out loud, or sitting in stunned silence as they see the world in a different way for the first time.

Bad news: That button doesn't exist. Good news: Edit Better shows you how to get there anyway.

Edit Better was made for video editors who consider themselves advanced hobbyists or growth-minded professionals, artists who know that the tools of editing matter far less than the knowledge of how to use those tools powerfully.

This audiobook does not illuminate the workings of Avid, Final Cut, or Premiere, and is not a meditation on film editing. What it is: a provocative, wide-ranging collection of strategies and tactics for the creative application of TV and video editing, no matter your editing tools.

Author Jeff Bartsch lays out both big-picture strategies and practical, boots-on-the-ground tactics for powerful communication. Going far beyond mere button-pushing, Jeff good-naturedly blends communication theory, marketing, behavioral psychology, neuroscience, and nuts-and-bolts details of editing application from years of experience in Hollywood, the storytelling capital of the world.

©2014 Jeff Bartsch (P)2014 Resolve Entertainment, Inc.

The best book on editing

This is a wonderful book! Really useful for editors, videographer or filmmakers. Great structure, good sense of humor, great tips!

Exactly what I was looking for.

I work on audiovisual projects as a hobby. The information offered in this book helped me get a better idea what I need to pay attention to when editing.

The book provides a set of ground rules for anyone who just started learning about editing, or anyone who feels like they are missing something fundamental when trying to edit a piece.

The rules and ideas are all explained well, it's not something that needs the followed blindly, the reasoning behind them also comes through and it's up to the readers judgment on how to apply them. All ideas are to the point, distilled from years of real life experience.

What I really like is that a broad range of subjects are covered, not just picture. None of them in depth, but the essential ideas that anyone can pick up and put to use are there.

Good job Jeff, and thank you for sharing your experiences.

Engaging, and fun but above all informative

This will definitely be a book I listen to multiple times. Having the author read this aids to the understanding of the content. Highly recommend.

excellently narrated and very capturing

to anyone who does any type of editing this is an amazing listen. only listened to it while driving and it was very easy to follow along with and the narrative is very smooth

Great Book (I already want to read it again.)

I recently got a minor in Screenwriting and that’s how I got into editing, because my professor felt like knowing how to edit well is a good way to break into the industry whether you want to write or direct.

This book really seems like it could be a master class in a screenwriting or film making degree. A must have for creative types.

I devoured it. I’ve been busy with work lately and haven’t been listening to audible or reading for that matter as much as I have in the last few years, but I still found time to listen and burned through it in a couple days.

Get this if you’re new to film editing, it helps clarify the basics, putting things you’ve probably been struggling with in perspective. I am definitely going to be reading this one again.