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SloanKettering

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Hey, I am going on a trip to Mt.Hood soon and am making an edit. This is my recent one and i need feedback on what i should do to make a really good edit. Anything that you think will make a good edit or things i need to fix would really help me out. I am sort of new to final cut pro x so an tips would help too. Thanks for your feedback. also +K to anyone who helps.

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First off all, this is the wrong part off the forum, people are going to hate that.

Don't ever do that again!

Second, I didn't see all of your video, i skipped thru it!

Cut the crap and only use the shot's you're really happy about!

Don't use the same tricks over and over, choose your best tricks, and the ones you're happy about, and edit them together, that's gonna make it better!

Enjoy Hood, peace!
 
Hey, I go to sundown too!

....anyways, Nice tricks but don't use video stabilization, it messes up the video....it makes it wavey. If you want stable stationary camera shots get a tripod. If you want good follow-cam, get a glidecam if your serious. Nice tricks.
 
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Yeah I'd say don't put lots of the same trick in there because it gets really repetitive, for example the flat, no grab 360s you shouldn't need more than like 2 of those because they are very similar. Keep working on your bag of tricks and practice editing is all I can really say
 
Dont use Coastin in an edit.

Cut it way down, like 1-2 minutes. People get bored after a couple of minutes watching an edit, especially if its not got big tricks in it. Smaller time also lets you put your best shots in and not be trying to fill time with falls or whatever.

 
This is true, 1.30 minuets of quality shots are a lot better than ~4.00 minuets of average footage with some good shots mixed in. If you were more ruthless with your footage, I think you could have got a really solid 1.30 of skiing. To look at you own footage and decide what is worthy and what isn't is difficult, and you get better at it the more edits you make.

But actually for someone just getting into it that was pretty good, there was some really good skiing in there. Keep shredding and maybe if you got time do a re-edit of your season edit taking into consideration everything we've said, it would be good to see what you could do with you foooty.

Anyways, have a fun time at Hood, hope you get some bangers, Joey
 
ya like everyone has said, choose quality over quantity, keep workin on new tricks and just practice editing. and if you're filming with a gopro or any other fisheye camera, don't be afraid to get in a lot closer to the rail or jump, practice filming like that, watch your footage and see if you need to change anything (eg. aim higher/lower, move faster, etc.)practice makes perfect!
 
I couldnt finish it. I was bad.

I felt nothing from the edit. In fact it was like watching raw gopro footage. Good image, no feeling. For an edit you have to show something, have a theme. Putting 100 rails and 76 grabs in line with music is not an edit in my books. Its a video album.

There has been a rise with beginners trying to promote their "edits". Every single one was a piece of crap and a waste of bandwidth. Dont go around hoping for praise from NS, you arent going to find it. Also, personally, I dont care who your are or where you are going; I want to watch something creative. That has not been atteined
 
Make sure to repeat the trick as many times as possible so everybody can catch the subtle differences between each one.
 
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