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