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Intermediate

Intermediate

You know the basics — now level up your craft. This path focuses on professional techniques, narrative rhythm, and audio-visual storytelling.

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Where the work gets harder

The step up is not more features, it is consistency. An intermediate edit has several sources that have to match — different cameras, different microphones, footage shot on different days — and the craft is in making them feel like one piece. That is mostly colour matching, loudness matching and a rhythm that holds across a long cut, none of which a preset does for you.

Match, then gradeGet shots to agree with each other before you give any of them a look. A grade applied to mismatched footage makes the mismatch louder.
Mix to a targetSet dialogue to a loudness target rather than to what sounds right at your volume, or every clip drifts.
Cut for retentionAt this length the question stops being "is this cut clean" and becomes "is there a reason to still be watching".

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