With the growing demand for video content, becoming a creator with strong video editing skills can help aspirants build a successful career. This way, you can follow your passion for video content as well. To become a successful video editor, it’s essential to learn the right tools and develop the skills that make your work stand out.
At ADMEC Multimedia Institute, our instructors, like Deepak Sir, focus on equipping students with both crucial technical skills and a knowledge base to excel in the industry.
In this blog, we’ll explore some of the essential skills every modern creator should have. We will also talk about exciting career options you can go for in video editing.
Is video editing only about editing raw clips?
Video editing isn’t just about assembling a final video from raw clips; rather, it’s an art of storytelling. Every editor must understand the audience’s expectations and deliver footage in the most engaging way.
So, don’t just cut unwanted clips and add effects with background music. Learn to maintain a consistent mood, story, and theme. This is exactly what our instructors emphasize in our video editing classes.
What is the use of video editing?
Nobody wants to post raw footage on social media or anywhere else because it often lacks quality and polish. Video editing transforms ordinary shots into visually appealing and impactful content. This is one reason why skilled video editors are in such high demand.
Through editing, we can add creative effects, smooth transitions, background music, and more to make videos attractive and engaging. Even something as simple as adding subtitles is incredibly valuable for a good user experience. It helps reach audiences who speak different languages across the globe. Text overlays can also be used to highlight key points or messages within the video.
To achieve all these enhancements, we use several editing applications.
Important Editing Applications to learn Video Editing
Here are some important and widely used video editing software options for you:
1. Adobe Premiere Pro: – In order to become a professional video editor, Premiere Pro training is a must for everyone. It is one of the most popular editing applications at present. Even the statistics from sendshort.ai shares report that says:
Adobe Premiere Pro covers 35% market share on the other side; Final Cut Pro X covers 25% and DaVinci Resolve 15%). Source: sendshort.ai
2. Final Cut Pro:- Apple’s Final Cut Pro is an ideal alternative to Adobe’s Premiere Pro for macOS users. FCP is the first choice of professional editors, especially those who use macOS. It has amazing options with a clean workspace that help in doing fast editing.
Please note: FCP runs only on Apple devices
3. Adobe After Effects: – We use After Effects for motion graphics purposes. But it is really a great help for video editors to create engaging graphics. With After Effects knowledge, you can add text effects and make logo animations too. This software has the capability of motion tracking and rotoscoping, which is required in video editing. So, learning After Effects can indeed help you stand out as a video editor.
4. Adobe Photoshop: – You can use Photoshop to edit images that you can use in motion posters, slideshow animations, or even in the titles. Photoshop has a mini timeline for making GIF animations. So, Photoshop training can help you improve your workflow.
5. Final Cut Studio: – This is a suite that includes all the tools like FCP, Apple Motion, and Compressor. It has all the features through which you can edit, animate, and render videos properly. This is mostly used for high-quality productions for movies and series.
Check full list of software applications for video editing for better understanding.
The purpose of learning all these software applications is to build essential technical skills that help in getting a good job. At ADMEC Multimedia, our post-production courses cover all these applications with commercial art classes. These sessions help in understanding video planning and preparing storyboarding. In computer classes, students work on practical video projects that spread across 2 weeks. So, with ADMEC, success is guaranteed.
Soft Skills You Need to Have
Along with technical skills, you also require some soft skills to succeed as a video editing professional. Here are soft skills that will help you build your personality
1. Time Management: – Focus on the time you take to complete your projects. Divide it properly into small tasks and try to finish within a time bound. This will help you in building confidence in managing time.
2. Storytelling: – You must be good at conveying a message or any sort of information in the form of videos; this is what is known as storytelling.
3. Communication Skills: – Work on your communication, both written and verbal. Also, observe your body language as it plays an important part in forming your personality. Your communication abilities can take you to the heights, as almost 70% of employers give importance to communication skills more than technical skills when promoting employees, says Kapable.
4. Team Collaboration: – Another important skill is to collaborate well in teamwork. Many times, we have to work on grouped or joint projects with other editors and motion graphics artists involved in it. Having good team collaboration skills can really help in performing well in it.
Once you have both technical and soft skill sets, you are all set for various career profiles.
Career options you will get after learning all these skills
1. Video Editor: – One of the main career profiles is that of a video editor, where you will have to edit videos for both digital and broadcasting media. Your main responsibilities will be:
- Place raw videos into the right sequence.
- Add relevant cuts to create a smooth flow on the timeline
- Add titles and effects according to need
- Synchronize voice over, dialogues, and background music with video clips
- Correct colors and add color grading effect for the final touch
- Render videos and distribute them on different channels.
2. Animation or Motion Graphics Designer: – As a motion graphics artist, you can animate still graphics like logos, text, and graphics. One of the main applications for this work is Adobe After Effects.
You can master this profession by enhancing your graphic design skills. Check our most advanced diploma course in graphic design with After Effects to start your journey to become a motion graphics designer in the right way.
3. YouTube Video Maker: – Content creation for YouTube has become a very common need for big to small brands. This brings out a demand for a YouTube video editing expert who can create both motion graphics and edit videos for YouTube. You can learn this art with our 2.5-month YouTube Creator Standard program.
4. Social Media Content Creator: – As a social media content creator, you can not only target YouTube but also create videos for other leading social media platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, X, LinkedIn, etc.
5. Promo Video Designer: – In this profession, you have to create promotional videos for products, services, events, or any business to grab attention. It requires both motion graphics and editing skills.
6. Digital Media Graphic Artist: – Another career profile is of a digital media graphic artist, in which you have to create thumbnails, posters, banners, etc., for your channel. The most commonly used tool in it is Adobe Photoshop. It is important to create eye-catching designs to grab clicks and impressions.
Remember, a freelancing career is also there for you.
How ADMEC helps you
We don’t only believe in teaching students according to their course duration. We support our students even after course completion. At ADMEC, we stay connected with our students regarding the following points:
- Placement Assistance: – We know that our students work hard to get a good job benefit in the future. So, for this, we provide placement support to our students in which we share vacancies related to their courses through our dedicated channel.
- Freelance Project Support: – We provide live, practical projects to both alumni and current students. This helps them to sharpen their skills and get even better than before.
- Lifetime Guidance: – We try to connect with each student even after their course completion through our ADMEC Alumni WhatsApp group. Our alumni can come anytime to ask their doubts. We are available to help them clear their doubts and solve their problems.
- Internship Support: – Students can also apply for internships at our institute. The duration starts from 1 month and can extend up to 6 months. We offer both free and paid internships. This will help them to gain experience in how a team works and how to work on live projects.
Closing words
So, we explored that video editing is not just about cutting and adjusting clips in their right place. It’s about creating a video that shares a story and entertains the audience.
Many things come together to form a proper video, even if it is a short one or a social media reel. You need to work on visual effects, sound, motion graphics, text, etc.
Multiple things need to learn from the technical part to the soft skills part. Then only you can grab the available career options listed above.
Author Introduction
Hi, this is Anuradha Sengar. I’m a video editing and marketing faculty member at ADMEC. You can check my page on the website for more information: Radha Sengar. I hope this blog was helpful for you.
