Cut by Cut: Editing Your Film or Video

This book covers a lot more than just the mechanics and aesthetics of editing. It's a very good overview of setting up an edit workflow in a professional environment, with a tilt toward film editing. But even indie videographers will benefit from the editing and finishing sections of the book. I particularly like the budget forms for editing major projects--makes this tedious job easier.

I came away with a lot of new ideas of how to use and when to use cuts. Had many practical examples of how to hide cuts or emphasize the cut depending on your project. It was good enough I bought one of the follow up books recommended. Since I learn well from books it really worked for me.

The book is for a college class and it was required. It does have some basic information on how to edit and cut video. If you have basic editing experience and its not required a more advanced book or google search would do you better.

Great book on film editing. She really lays out step by step on how to edit a film from the start to end. I've been editing for a year now, but this book has helped giving me a better idea on how to setup my workflow.

thanks a lot. The book is very informative and worth the money. Simple to understand and has very clear structure.