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Time-Based Editing
By: Neali Helms
Tags: Editing, Digital Media, Imovie, Anecdotes, Editing Tips

Digital Media Convergence — Chapter 14

Ahh, editing. How I love to hate you.

Okay I’m being dramatic. I don’t hate you… But boy, sometimes…

Editing really isn’t that bad, but it is extremely tedious. Especially when you realize, looking back, maayyybbbeee you should’ve shot a video clip differently — but too late now!

I have only ever edited videos with iMovie, and it’s super easy to learn on your own (thankfully). But sometimes the software can be half the problem. They’re finicky and tricky to use sometimes. No other sound haunts my nightmares like the MacBook error sound — you know, the ~thUNK~.

But really, not only does editing itself take practice, so does the actual video shooting. Sometimes the way you shoot a video clip can screw you later on in editing. Take it from me, shoot AT LEAST 10 seconds of nothing before you shoot what you actually want to use. If not, GOOD LUCK in those transitions.

Like normal, I am speaking from experience, and YES I will tell you how I solved it (in case you’re reading this blog and you’re in the same situation — I got you!!).

Earlier this semester, I was asked to prerecord an interview for my internship, and it would be posted to YouTube and presented on a Zoom call. It was a little daunting at first, especially because I was recording an interview between two beloved people from the Meredith College community.

However, despite my nerves, the interview went great. It was entertaining and educational, and they were lovely people that I am so thankful to know.

But when I started editing later that week and cutting down my 10–15 minute clips into smaller segments to filter the responses and fit the time frame, I realized my mistake. There was NO TIME for transitions between clips. So, what did I do?

Thankfully, we wanted to include photos, but were unsure of how and where they’d make their appearance. So, I laid them over the cuts of my video, and you would have never suspected a thing! It was a great hack that hopefully I won’t have to use in the future. I think I’ve learned my lesson, and from now on I will leave myself plenty of space for transitions!
Medium Tip: You can easily check your word count right in the Medium editor.
By: Christina M. Ward
Tags: Writing, Editing, Medium, Writing Tips, Poetry

Medium Tip: You can easily check your word count right in the Medium editor. Simply place your cursor on a blank spot anywhere inside the Medium editor where you have your article partially completed and hit CONTROL + A. It will highlight your entire text and you can see in the top left-hand corner of your desktop screen the total current word count.

Follow for more #MediumTips.

◦•●✿ Christina M. Ward ✿●•◦
PicsArt Photo Studio 16.2.0 APK + MOD Full + PREMIUM Unlocked
By: Travel Hunter
Tags: Picsart, Editing, Photoeffects, Free App Design

Something here to Explore
Use the 10 C’s of Business Writing to Produce Better Articles
By: S M Mamunur Rahman
Tags: Writing, Reading, Editing, Business Writing Skills, Productivity

The 10 Cs to Improve Your Writing

Writing is a form of communication. Being a writer, you are trying to communicate with your readers. Maybe you are informing them about something or just expressing your thoughts or feelings through your articles.

Now, if you want to make the communication a great one, you must tell your information in a lovely way that engages readers and keep them interested to learn more from you. Here come the 10 C’s.

If you know the 10 C’s of business communication beforehand, you can make your writings (business & creative) better than anyone else, creating a strong connection to your readers.

In the following, I am describing the 10 C’s briefly and telling you how to improve your writing with this.
Granular verisimilitude
By: Eliot Peper
Tags: Creativity, Writing, Editing, Fiction, Books

You know you have a good editor when they point out that the narratively-necessary-but-totally-arbitrary-8-digit number in your novel manuscript is unlikely to have the unique digits you thought would make it appear random because among the 100 million 8-digit numbers, there are only about 1.8 million whose digits are all different. So your number is an outlier in that particular sense; not only might the reader find it hard to imagine that anyone could know a number to that precision, but it smells like a made-up number.

Engineering the suspension of disbelief is all in the details.
My First $100 Month: Choices I Made, and Lessons Learned
By: The Maverick Files
Tags: Writing, Editing, Illumination, Motivation, Writing Tips

My First $100 Month: Choices I Made, and Lessons Learned

Author’s Chart

I typically do a monthly round-up story to share any of the Medium wisdom I acquired during the month gone by. Also, since I started writing on Medium in mid-July, I set myself a target, to reach the coveted $100-earnings club within 6 months i.e. by Jan 2021.

Writing on Medium is something I started to rekindle my love for writing, and not as an income source — I have a full-time job that takes care of that. Yet, the competitive nature within me, as in many of us, made me want to compete with myself to be consistent and get in the “elite club” of writers.

Earnings come from member read time, and by no means is the metric that determines the quality of writing — but probably a good judge of how many readers you’re reaching out to and actually engaging such that they give you a fraction of their precious time.

And so, when I got to the $100 club sooner than expected, I dragged my feet for 6 days feeling semi-guilty for having gotten there, but finally decided I should do what I do every month — and write this story. So, here goes.
I love the four C’s of craft, commitment, community, and confidence!
By: Ryan Dejonghe
Tags: Reading, Writing, Editing

I love the four C’s of craft, commitment, community, and confidence! I have to admit that writing groups have always bogged down the process. Inspiring writers don’t necessarily make great editors. That said, a great editor can truly help achieve the four C’s!
KineMaster 4.15.9.17782.GP Latest Version Download(No Watermark)
By: Travel Hunter
Tags: Best Video Editor Apps, Editing, Videoeditingcourse, Kinemaster, Edit

Feature updates:

1. Adds support for 3:4, 4:3, 4:5, and 2.35:1 aspect ratio exports

2. Adds support to duplicate a project to a different aspect ratio

3. Adds the ability to apply a text layer’s styles to all text layers

4.Adds Media (video and images) category to the Asset Store
Editors: A Second Pair of Eyes
By: Aman Majmudar
Tags: Writing, Editing, Life, Life Lessons, Poetry

Ezra Pound, renowned poet and critic, edited the works of Ernest Hemingway, Marianne Moore, and T.S. Eliot. The final version of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot was a result of Pound’s edits. They always made a piece shorter.

Without editors, then, our beloved classics wouldn’t be as clean; they might be laborious to read. Writers cannot at once be the writer and reader of their work. It should be revised with an honest pair of eyes, without bias and with rigor. Otherwise, good writing would not become great writing, great writing would not become art. The standards of literature would be lower.

Without their editors, every article in The Guardian, National Tribune, and The New York Times would be longer. As a writer, it is difficult to omit your own words — words that are grand but unnecessary. Who wants to read what only the writer values? Writers and editors constitute the economy of literature; the writer supplies, the editor shifts the supply to equilibrium. Without editors, that balance between supply, demand, and value would cease to exist.
I really liked this article but what’s the actual reason for #13?
By: Stephanie D. Lewis
Tags: Writing, Editing, Improvement

I really liked this article but what’s the actual reason for #13? I looked at your rewrite example…. Is it just less “clunky” the second way? Or is there some other reason to avoid using “there is?” Truly curious because I’ve not heard this one before. Ps. One good tip I HAVE heard many times before and that you left out is to eliminate saying “that” because the sentence is usually stronger without it. As an example read my previous sentence and eliminate the bolded word. See? Lol. Thanks for these relevant tips!
I think you may have meant to write, “Emotionally _mature_ people”, here.
By: Adam Parichy
Tags: Editing, Proofreading

Emotionally immature people love to listen to your experiences, and they use them to establish an emotional connection with you…
Before I Write Anything Else, Thank You for The Writing Tool
By: J.E. Guzman
Tags: Making Money, Formatting, Guide, Editing, Writing On Medium

This feels good. I have the tool to write articles in Medium. Now it’s a matter of talent, wits, effort, and luck.

If there is an article that should have a monument built in its honor, it’s “The Best Medium Article Formatting Guide” by Casey Botticello.

In that beautiful article, you will learn everything, or for sure more than enough.

You feel like talking with Professor Oak, who welcomes you to the Medium world.

I smile because of two things while writing this article. First, the embedded story, which links to “The Best Medium Article Formatting Guide,” was originally a screenshot with a link.

However, when I was collecting the texts for the bullet list below, I realized that what was pertinent was to embed the story as I ended up doing following the guide’s steps.

It was also funny that to make the list of things you will find in the article, I went to look for how to make a list. The same happened to mention the author using the “@” and setting the Kicker for this article.

I used to look for every little thing I didn't know how to do. Now I save a lot of time because of this valuable resource.

When you are in the formatting guide, press “Ctrl +F” to activate a search box where you write the keyword of what you want to do. For example, to make a list and with faith that the answer was there, I wrote “bullet.” And there it was.

And here is the list of topics you will find in the guide:

Titles, Subtitles, Headers, and Subheaders

kickers

Quotes

Drop Caps

Leaving Private Notes

Keyboard Shortcuts

Creating Lists

Friend Link

Medium Scheduling Posts

Mentioning Medium Users

Custom Meta Description

Canonical Link

Image Formating

Embedding Content

T K Notes

Code Blocks

Word Count

Revision History

Publish as Unlisted

Customize Title and Subtitle of Your Story

Customize Story Link

Import a Story to Medium

Export and Backup Your Medium Articles

Save to Medium

After expressing my due gratitude, I will go and clap ten times to that article because it deserves no less than that score.
‘That’ vs. ‘Who’
By: Cristóbal De Losada
Tags: Creativity, Writing, Editing, Writing Tips, Copywriting

‘That’ vs. ‘Who’

Sam: A small error I see frequently is “that” instead of “who,” such as “we need a president that shows empathy.”

I wouldn’t call that an error. Here is what the Merriam-Webster says about it:

In current usage that refers to persons or things, which chiefly to things and rarely to subhuman entities, who chiefly to persons and sometimes to animals. The notion that that should not be used to refer to persons is without foundation; such use is entirely standard.

‘That’ vs. ‘Which’

Tana: Using “which” when it should be “that,” like “a mindset which contributes to more incarceration” versus “a mindset that contributes to more incarceration.”

I’m afraid that’s not a grammar mistake either. The Merriam-Webster again:

In today’s usage which and that are both used to introduce restrictive clauses, those which cannot be removed from the context of the sentence, and which is also used to introduce nonrestrictive clauses, those which provide additional information but can be removed without the sentence falling apart. These rules are actually older than the words themselves, which were frequently interchangeable until the 18th century. If anyone questions your decision [to use which in a restrictive clause], you can say that you […] are making a decision based on custom, euphony, and convenience.

Impact

I agree with Iris’s take.

I’d just like to note that using impact as a verb is not per se wrong. From the Merriam-Webster:
My Relationship With Grammarly
By: Stephen Sovie
Tags: Writing, Editing, Medium, Grammarly, Blogs

My Relationship With Grammarly

Image by Anne Karakash from Pixabay

Unlike many of my friends on Medium, I have never taken a course in writing during my college years. I took all of the English classes that were required for my area of study. When I published articles for Pathology journals I wrote them and had someone in the pathology department, whose specialty was medical writing, edit the articles for me. Thank God!

Now that I am writing more, especially out of my area of expertise, I can see that I can make some really asinine mistakes in grammar. I can read an article over and over again and not see glaring mistakes that I’ve made. Since English is not my husband’s native tongue I don’t ask him to edit my writing. At times my friend, Sherry McGuinn, a professional editor, has pointed out mistakes I have made when submitting work for her publications. Thank you, Sherry!

About a year ago I discovered Grammarly. Since I never make a paltry amount of money, I chose the free version, which I figured was good enough for me. I use Grammarly when I write on Medium or write my blogs on other platforms. In the year since I have been using this tool, I have been quite satisfied. But there are some glitches, in my opinion.

Usually, Grammarly catches quite a few grammar mistakes, but not all spelling mistakes. So I still have to read my articles over a couple of times. One aspect of Grammarly that I don’t like is the corrections it suggests when I try to emphasize a point. There are instances where I want to emphasize something my own way, not their way. When I insist upon using my own terminology my score from the Grammarly tool is lowered.

Grammarly provides a window that gives you a running tally of mistakes or suggestions, as well as a grammar score. What bothers me is that it also points out issues that you can only see if you purchase the premium plans. Usually, I get a high score with the words, “Looks Good”, but with numerous suggestions that can only be seen with the Premium plan. For this article, I have a score of 99, but I also have 11 Premium issues. I wonder what those mistakes are!

I am not concerned enough about those Premium issues to pay the extra big bucks to upgrade my free plan. I’m satisfied with what the free plan gives me and I will continue to use it. If I ever start earning in triple figures, I may upgrade. I recommend Grammarly to those writers, like me, who may be grammatically challenged.
As a former ESL teacher, I agree! These tips can definitely improve your English if used routinely.
By: Chira Lois
Tags: Learn, Editing, English Language, Writing Tips, Publishing

As a former ESL teacher, I agree! These tips can definitely improve your English if used routinely.
CoSchedule is tedious to work with.
By: Chira Lois
Tags: Writing, Editing, Publishing, Headlines, Freelancing

CoSchedule is tedious to work with. Once it “approves” a headline, I ask myself, does this sound good, would I click on this article? If not, I go my own way.
Are You a Real Writer?
By: Roz Warren
Tags: Writing, Editing, Writing Coach, Roz Warren, Writing Tips

Ask an Editor

Are You a Real Writer?

Photo by Ashley Jurius on Unsplash

I am a writer, but I’m also a Writing Coach.

For decades, I’ve worked with beginning writers and accomplished writers, and every kind of writer in between, on projects ranging from 500-word humor pieces to 500 page fantasy novels.

Yesterday, I was working with a new client. She’d spent hours researching the article she wanted to write. Now it was time to actually write the thing. Part of what she’d hired a Writing Coach to do was to push her off that particular cliff. (After making sure, of course, that her parachute was in good working order.)

She needed to move from the comfort of researching the piece to the danger of actually writing it.

What’s so dangerous?

In the research phase, the article was imaginary and, thus, perfect. She knew that in reality the piece might fail to live up to her vision of it.

In fact, it almost certainly would.

So what? That’s okay. Reality isn’t perfect.

There was also a certain amount of self-doubt involved that was holding her back. “I’m not a real writer,” she told me. I’m just a person with a lot of opinions.”

“I’ve got news for you,” I told her. “That’s what a real writer is. A person with a lot of opinions.”

Writers, unlike other people, have a lot of opinions that they want to share with not just their immediate circle but with the rest of the world. And somehow?

We feel entitled to do just that.

But my client wasn’t really feeling that entitlement. Hence the need for a Writing Coach.

My job is to help her claim that right and exercise it.

Improving your writing isn’t rocket science. There are basic rules. A writing coach can work with you until you’ve internalized them. Then you follow them. Sometimes, you intentionally break them.

But if you start out with nothing to say?

You’ll never be a writer.

( Writing Coach and Medium Sherpa Roz Warren writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, has been in 13 Chicken Soup for the Soul collections, and is the author of Our Bodies, Our Shelves: Library Humor . Drop her a line at roSwarren@gmail.com.)
Audio Production
By: Neali Helms
Tags: Audio Production, Editing, Digital Media, Audio, Production

Digital Media Convergence — Chapter 12

Sometimes, the things I hate most about creating video content is audio.

It is just so finicky! Just when you think you have it right, you play it back and it’s terrible!

This past semester, I was asked to record an interview for my internship. I busted out my handy-dandy tripod and microphone and prepared myself for the job. I went to the room we were going to shoot in beforehand, we set up the scene for a wonderful set, and did plenty of sound tests to make sure the microphone was in a good position.

However, what we didn’t prepare for was the lovely (note the sarcasm) North Carolina heat. When the day came to shoot the video,

It. Was. HOT.

So, as expected, the air conditioners were on in every building possible. Including the one where we were shooting.

It wasn’t noticeable at all just standing within the room, and when we did our final mic test, I still didn’t notice it.

However, later that week when I began editing, I realized I had a problem. Thankfully, it was not that bad, and I was able to boost the treble in my sound to pick up on their voices.

This experience definitely reinforces what our textbook says: bring your headphones and use them!
NaNoWriMo Comes to an End, What Next?
Tags: Editing And Proofreading, Writing, Editing, Nanowrimo2020, NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo 2020 has officially come to an end. After endless hours of writing, staying up late, and dosing yourself with coffee, you have to figure out what to do now. Here’s what your December might look like more or less:

#1 Finishing your novel

For those who have finished 50k words in 30 days, good for you! But a lot of you might have a few thousand words left, and that’s what December is for!

Figure out when you have major chunks of time. It might be during the wee hours of the night or at the crack of dawn, but mark those huge chunks of time in your calendar. We’re not saying that use your every waking moment to complete the final leg of NaNoWriMo, but devote a majority of your free time to it.

Make a writing schedule. This writing schedule will be different that the one you’ve been following all month, because it will take into account the limited time you have instead of the whole day.

#2 Getting feedback from your friends and family

Once you finish your book (or even most of the chapters), ask a trusted friend to read it and give you feedback. Make sure that these select few people of yours like reading books, and especially have read your work.

#3 Sending it off to an editor

NaNoWriMo is majorly for writing and we strongly recommend you to not edit while you write. Why shouldn’t you edit while you write?

a. It allows you to write more freely.

b. Helps you write in an uncensored manner.

c. Makes your writing more creative.

d. Gives you a lot of material to work with when you finally think about editing it.

Leave the editing to a professional editor! A professional editor is trained at spotting superficial grammar, punctuation, and syntax errors. Apart from this, they also provide in-depth feedback on your novel, give you tips to improve the plot structure, help flesh out your characters and descriptions, and help cut out unnecessary parts.

At PaperTrue, our expert editors are experienced at editing fiction in a variety of genres. To know more about our fiction editing services, check out PaperTrue.

#4 Figuring out how to publish it

After your book is edited, the next step is to go ahead and publish it! But which route should you opt for, traditional or self-publishing? Read our articles here to get your perspectives clear. But before you get onto publishing, you need to figure out a couple things like typesetting and cover design, which will make your book a complete entity. PaperTrue offers all of these services as a part of TrulySet.

Get onto it, then!
Honest Review of Premiere Pro Guru Course by Christopher Olson
By: Gabriel Chase
Tags: Adobe, Editing, Premiere, Pro, Productivity

Honest Review of Premiere Pro Guru Course by Christopher Olson

Have you ever wanted to speed up your editing work flow inside Adobe Premiere Pro? Or, wanted to learn advanced techniques that would take your edit to the next level? Well, look no further and check out Christopher Olson’s Premiere Pro Guru online course.

I have been a student/member of Premiere Pro Guru for about a year now. This course isn’t designed for the beginner in mind. Instead, it is designed for those that have some background with Adobe Premiere Pro and enhances their skillset and take it to the next level with advanced training.

In Premiere Pro Guru Chris Olson teaches you how to properly and efficiently use Premiere PRo so that you can edit faster and take on more work. In addition, the course goes over what gear you should buy, the basics, the workflow, and the advanced. In the advanced section, Chris teaches you how to implement macros within Premiere Pro to speed up your workflow and teaches you on the 3 point editing technique which will save your tons of hours and time in the editing room.

Whats great about Premiere Pro Guru is you get the following at a really affordable price of $299 USD:

Lifetime access to current and future content of the course

Currently, there are 40+ training videos with more to come

Mentorship from Chris Olson himself, yes that's right, he is a fabulous man and he has actually helped answer many questions directly himself

Access to a private community of all members of the course that help you get the most out of it. I noticed the members are super helpful and its a great community to be a part of

Discounts on various software including Soundstripe, keyboard maestro, Artist, Pro.IO, Mister Horse Animation Composer Plugins, ReVisionFX Products, and Cinematic Drone Pro.

For those that don’t know Christopher Olson he has helped DP a picture that came on Netflix called “The Speed Cubers.” Chris Olson is not new to the editing world and has a plethora of experience. Highly encourage you to check out his course if you want to elevate your game within Adobe Premiere Pro.

Here is a snippet of Chris Olson’s teaching style and his 5 tips on ACTUALLY editing faster in Premiere Pro:

You can get Premiere Pro Guru here.
My Readers Are Helping Me Edit My Next Book
By: Roz Warren
Tags: Writing, Editing, Writing On Medium, Roz Warren, Writing Advice

Writing

My Readers Are Helping Me Edit My Next Book

Photo by Windows on Unsplash

I’m a writer. I’m also an editor who works with writers to polish and publish their prose.

The good news? I’m great at my job. When I read a client’s work, not only do I notice every flaw, but I know just how to fix each one.

The bad news? I can’t turn this Superpower off.

Which means that when I read your latest Medium Masterpiece, I can’t help but notice the typos and grammatical errors. And then? I’ll send you a private note suggesting a correction. I truly hope that makes me a value-added reader instead of an annoying reader.

But if it doesn’t? I’m not stopping.

Although I follow my own editorial advice and proof the dickens out of everything I publish, a typo or two invariably gets by me.

Not to worry!

Many of my readers have obviously been gifted with the Editing Gene too, and can be counted upon to quickly bring every error they find in my latest Medium Masterpiece to my attention.

And this doesn’t only apply to newly published work. Bill DuBay Jr. just found a typo in a humor piece that was published 9 months ago!

This is fabulous! Why?

I’ve published two collections of my work, Our Bodies, Our Shelves and Just Another Day at Your Local Public Library. Both contained essays and humor pieces written before I began writing on the platform. And both, despite my best efforts, contained typos and grammatical glitches.

This April I’ll be publishing a third collection, It’s a Hardback Life.

Because everything in the new book will be published on Medium first, my Medium readers are basically proofreading my next collection for me!

THANKS, EVERYONE!

It’s a Hardback Life will be, if not perfect, then enhanced and improved because of you.

If you’re thinking of publishing a collection of your own work? I recommend that you work with an editor to make sure that that everything in that book is as good as it can possibly be.

But if hours of editing help isn’t in the budget? Publish the contents here first, and profit from the efforts of the Obsessive Editors of Medium!

( Writing Coach and Medium Sherpa Roz Warren writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, has been in 13 Chicken Soup for the Soul collections, and is the author of Our Bodies, Our Shelves: Library Humor . Drop her a line at roSwarren@gmail.com.)
I completely agree.
By: Samantha Waters
Tags: Writing, Editing

I completely agree. Luckily( I guess)I’m backwards..so I spill everything out and dump it…then I’m too tired to edit lol
Panorama — Lightroom — Photoshop. Panorama is one of the best technique…
By: Mano Santhan
Tags: Editing, Photography, Finland, Sony, Nature

youtube.com/c/mano2010

Panorama is one of the best technique to use in photography if you don’t have wider lens to capture the scene. Now a days mobile phones have ability to any kind of images in few seconds 😅

I have been using Sony a7iii since 2019. I don’t have any fancy lens and using kit lens which is 28–70mm. To capture the beauty of this sunrise 🌅 so i decided to capture panorama technique.

I took 6 different images with same image settings. Stitched them together in LightRoom. To know more about editing, visit my youtube channel.

Image Settings:

1/800 sec, ISO 80 , f/3.5. also remember these setting might differ from the locations and situations you are in.

I upload videos on youtube how i process images in light room. If you are interested please visit my channel and subscribe youtube.com/c/mano2010

Also to see my images visit my IG and Facebook

Hope you enjoyed here! Have a great day and stay safe 😷!!!
How to Edit Your Writing Yourself
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Tags: Writing, Editing

Photo by hannah grace on Unsplash

Anne Lamott is famously a proponent of “shitty first drafts,” and the real key to that whole thing is what comes next: editing. Professional writers endure the shitty first draft, then make the magic happen in revision.

So, you’ve got your shitty first draft. Where to go from there? Here are a few checkpoints I always start with when getting my books in order:

Make sure you’ve used active voice, not passive voice, as much as possible. (Active voice: I edited my book. Passive: The book was edited.) Usually, this results in clearer, more concise sentences, though there are exceptions. And yes, I check sentence-by-sentence. It’s grueling and makes me feel like some kind of hero. Relatedly: Check your verbs, sentence-by-sentence, to make sure they’re as strong, vivid, and varied as possible. Within reason, of course. No one likes a human thesaurus. Check punctuation and grammar. If you don’t know the basics, learn. Examine your beginnings and endings. The book beginning and ending, of course, but also beginnings and endings of chapters. Make them shine. Delete anything that doesn’t move your book forward. Make sure there’s no jargon or phrases that your audience won’t understand. Keep an eye out for your tics—words and phrases repeatedly used. This happens in almost every book. When you write a lot of words, you get into certain grooves, sometimes surprising ones. I’ve overused “flummoxed” and “vexed” in various drafts, good words when used once, glaring when repeated dozens of times. Read your work aloud! Works wonders. Get a copy of Susan Bell’s The Artful Edit and read it through, then use its tips and checklists with abandon. I have relied on my rumpled copy through seven books now.

This list is adapted from my e-booklet, Write That Nonfiction Book Already: A Practical Guide for Writing a Successful Book, from Conception to Publication.
My Date With Diane Lane
By: M. H. Rubin
Tags: Post Production, Editing, Hollywood, Movie Stars, Fans

A decade later, the [CMX 6000] editing system I was helping introduce to Hollywood was going to be used on a massive miniseries called Lonesome Dove. The project, produced by CBS and Motown Records, was going to be four 2-hour episodes, shooting on locations in Texas and New Mexico, and editing on location. This was no small task.

This was going to be four simultaneous feature-film-sized projects. A million feet of film. The CMX 6000 had cut TV shows and even some low budget features shooting 200,000 feet of film perhaps, but not 5x that — all of which had to be transferred from film to video and then from video to laserdiscs, in 30 minute chunks. Usually the editing systems were installed in air-conditioned facilities in Hollywood where it was easy to keep an eye on things, not sketchy hotels in the old west. Lonesome Dove was going to be shot on location, the film shipped to LA to get developed and transferred to 4 custom discs each day, and sent from LA back to the production as it moved around the countryside.

The editing system was the size of a small room — a desk-sized computer connected to a few monitors and 12 pairs of modified laserdisc players. That’s a lot of fragile analog equipment that has to work perfectly for months while being moved around, connected disconnected reconnected.

Okay, first of all, this was clearly going to be a project from hell. No one should have embarked on this insanity. But it was also a high-profile, well-funded project and while it was a push, it would be a big win for the product if it pulled through. We rolled the dice.

News was that the cast and crew and editing system would all be together to start with, taking over a few floors of the Radisson hotel in Austin, Texas, the primary location for the first month. There would be a couple moves — from Austin to Del Rio, Texas (on the border) and then on to Santa Fe, NM for the balance. The cast headliners were Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, and Danny Glover, but the rest of the cast were stellar as well, including Angelica Huston, Chris Cooper and Diane Lane.

Call & Gus, © 1988, Bill Wittliff Courtesy of the Wittliff Collections, Texas State University. Wittliff was the screenwriter and active on location.

Wait, Diane Lane is in this? And we’re all living together in a hotel? Things can get pretty rowdy when a production is spending a month in a hotel. I was suddenly less concerned about the risks involved.
Yes, you explained all that in your article, but you also explained how some things work, but you…
By: Robert Allen Fisher
Tags: Writing, Editing, Publish On Demand, Publishing, Book Design

Yes, you explained all that in your article, but you also explained how some things work, but you didn't mention POD or how it works at those 3 companies.

Back in 2011, I created a publishing company, contracted with Ingram's Lightningsource to print and distribute HB & PB through Amazon and B&N, used their Digital Rights platform to distribute the EPubs through their network of online sellers, also published our EPubs through KDP and B&N not included in that network, purchased ISBNs through Bowker, hired an artist for the cover images, hired a book designer to do the print books in Adobe InDesign based upon the rules and templates provided by Lightningsource, I edit the manuscript and prep it for import into InDesign, and I edit the EPub exported by InDesign to match the requirements of now Spark, Amazon, and B&N. Lightningsource moved the digital rights platform to Spark.

And yes - marketing - that is the bugger. I am editing now the 6th book of a 6 book series and when it is published, we will have the full series to promote to see if we can increase the sales.

A tip for any who are writing in Word and then importing into InDesign or some other way of generating the print and digital versions, create a Style for absolutely every thing you format, including a character style for italics. This will help when you have to look a a CSS to fix or change something.
Six things I’m thoroughly fed up with editing!
By: Nicholas Taylor
Tags: Editing, Mistakes, Fiction, Editor, Proofreading

2. Unnecessary adverbs.

Talking of speech, let’s look at speech tags next. Especially those unnecessary ones that contain really unnecessary adverbs.

Shouted loudly.

Whispered quietly.

Asked inquisitively.

Anything that really needs explaining with an adverb probably means that you haven’t been as clear as you could be. Try using a stronger verb or adapting your dialogue so that it is clear how those words are being said. Or better still: trust your readers. Their imaginations will fill in all the gaps needed.

That’s true for all adverbs. If the character is hobbling, do we need to know if he did it quickly or slowly? As readers, we can work it out from the context.

1. Suddenly.

And another, specific, adverb woe to finish.

Suddenly. Is it? Is really sudden? And must you spell it out with that damned word? Okay, so sometimes things do happen all of a sudden. But I’m sure there’s better ways to describe things. It all seems a bit too convenient when things happen suddenly.

The S-word gets used in all sorts of contexts. One particular hatred of mine is when it is applied to feelings. Do I suddenly hate someone? My feelings stem from not liking that person. Maybe the hatred rises out of annoyance for a character’s traits and mannerisms.

I don’t suddenly love someone. I fall for them. I learn about them and stare into their eyes. (Note: I don’t need to stare longingly because we know the context and we all guessed how I would stare into that person’s eyes.)

And if your plot twist happens suddenly have you really dropped enough hints in there? Readers like a twist, sure, but they also like to feel part of the journey. Coming out of nowhere, smashing through the wall with a “suddenly …” can leave your readers feeling disappointed they didn’t spot the twist coming.
Ode to the Typo
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: Editing, Mistakes, Books, Poetry, Perfectionism

Ode to the Typo

Photo by Sarah Kilian on Unsplash

dear editor gods

i forgive you

for dropping my

ice cream cone

my skinned knees

sticky with asphalt

auto-grease and

sugared dairy

i was a child

distracted and late

by way of pretty

colors and obstinance

and i know you

were trying to

educate me

again
Try These Visual Self-Editing Tricks Before You Click Publish
By: Sarah Czarnecki
Tags: Writing, Writing Tips, Editing, Proofreading

Try These Visual Self-Editing Tricks Before You Click Publish

Photo by Kaitlyn Baker on Unsplash

Editing is nearly as important as writing, and there’s no lack of information on how to do it properly.

It’s worth running your writing through programs like Grammarly and Hemingway App. They aren’t perfect, but they’ll catch your most egregious errors. Read your work aloud and allow your work to rest. Nix the passive voice, strengthen weak verbs, and replace adverbs — that’s all solid advice.

But it’s not always about catching spelling mistakes and moving commas. Sometimes it’s all about how you see things.

Change the font or the color

Boring old Arial is great, but what does that font say about your writing? If you’re going for a certain tone, try changing the font to match. A good horror story should be unreadable in hot pink Comic Sans (although that font is scary). If your chick-lit piece doesn’t work with a curly cursive font, maybe you’re not hitting the right tone.

Change the font size

There’s a good chance your text will be read on a tiny screen, and those tiny screens break down your sentences into short lines. These short lines force you to see every word and prevent skimming, and you definitely don’t want to skim when you edit. Increasing your font size will make your text feel different without having to switch devices.

Toggle to a bulleted list

Does your writing work as a bullet list? If so, this is great news if you want your piece structured that way. But if it’s creative writing, this is a good indication that your writing is too blocky and needs to be smoothed out.

Add photos

Even if you don’t plan on adding a photo to the finished piece, using a photo as a mood template can help keep your tone in its lane.

Copy and paste your work into another word processor

Old writing feels fresh in a new word processor! Your text will be structured differently and this will help you spot those sneaky mistakes that thought they could hide.

Click print

If you can print your work, that’s even better than switching word processors. Once it’s on paper, the writing is permanent, and permanent errors are extra glaring.

Edit somewhere else

Pick up your laptop and carry it somewhere else. Your readers do not live in your writing environment, so it’s important to make sure your content makes sense without your usual points of reference. Can you read your writing in the context of a coffee shop? Can you read it in the backyard?

Don’t get fancy

Anyone who knows me in person knows that this has become my catchphrase. In self-editing, this means removing all the headers, quotes, formatting, images, and italicized words. Do you still like your content if you remove all the visual bells and whistles?

Next time you double (or triple or quadruple) check your work, try clicking the formatting buttons on the toolbar. Just don’t forget to change your font back to boring old Arial before you finish.
As a former editor (and mobility impaired person), I feel compelled to point out that even though…
By: Lea Hernandez Seidman
Tags: Ableism, Writing, Editing

As a former editor (and mobility impaired person), I feel compelled to point out that even though “lame” has been accepted and normalized as a synonym for “undesirable” for a long time, it is and always was ableist and hurtful to equate something disliked with mobility impairment.

There are so many colorful alternatives like “crappy” “weak” “bogus” “crummy” “garbage” “fake” “orange as fuck” at a writer’s disposal.
The Best Writing Advice I Ever Received
By: Benya Clark
Tags: Writing, Self Improvement, Editing, Advice, Writing Tips

I’ve heard plenty of writing advice over the years. Most has been useless, some has been good, but there’s only one piece of advice that ever fundamentally changed the way I write.

My Old Process

The way that I used to write was by opening up a notebook or a blank document on my computer, thinking about my first sentence for a while, and then writing it out.

Next, I read the sentence back, and decided whether I wanted to make any alterations. If so, I immediately edited the sentence, then read it back again. I would keep repeating this step until I was satisfied.

When the first sentence was to my liking, I’d start thinking about the second sentence. I’d go on and on like this for pages, until finally typing out my last line.

There might be a little exaggeration here, but only a little. My writing and editing processes were completely intertwined. I’d edit as I go, trying to get as close as I could to a final draft on my first try.

The Advice

The advice that changed my writing came from a lawyer at one of the agencies I interned at in law school. He told me to break my writing down into four steps: brainstorming, outlining, writing, and editing.

I followed this simple advice and immediately realized that it made writing far easier than ever before. Although breaking the process into multiple steps sounds like it should take longer, I was actually able to write faster than ever.

Why It Works

Our brain uses a different mode of thinking at each step of the writing process. When brainstorming, we’re in a wild, creative mode. When outlining, we have to think about rigid structure. The writing itself is back to creative thinking, and the editing is back to rigid rules.

Trying to alternate back and forth between these ways of thinking is really difficult when done on a sentence by sentence level. It makes it impossible to get into the “zone” or achieve any “flow.”

When I used to write, I’d cut off my creativity every time that it got started. Then, as my brain shifted to thinking about the rigid rules of grammar, I’d cut myself off again and force it back to creativity. Each time I tried to think differently, I’d slow myself down.

By trying to do everything at once, I was doing it all poorly. By learning to segment my work, I grew as a writer faster than at any other point in my life.

If you’re still attempting to write and edit at the same time, I’d urge you to at least try breaking it into separate processes. You’ll likely be amazed by just how much easier writing becomes.
Ambisonics in Adobe Premiere
By: Adriano Farina
Tags: Editing, Virtual Reality, Ambisonics, Spatial Audio, VR

There are a lot of video tutorials on this subject, but I cannot find a good old textual version, so I’m making my own.

First of all, you should set up the Sequence appropriately, by using the appropriate preset.

New Sequence > Presets > VR 8192x4096 — Ambisonics

If your camera makes videos in a different resolution than those provided in the presets, you can just edit the resolution by right clicking on the sequence and selecting Sequence Settings…

Sequence settings, where you can modify both the Video Frame Size and the Video Preview dimensions

When you import an Ambisonics audio clip, Premiere will treat it as 4 mono tracks. Before you insert the clip into the sequence, you should tell Premiere to treat it as Ambisonics. To do that, right click on the audio clip and select Modify > Audio Channels…

A clip’s Audio Channels options window, before modification

Set Clip Channel Format to Adaptive, it should populate each clip with 32 channels each.

Make sure that each Media Source Channel is checked on the corresponding channel of the corresponding clip, like this.

Media Source Channel 2 is checked on channel 2 of clip 2

Now you can import the audio clip into your sequence, and get editing.

Ambisonics Level Meter

Your level meter should correctly display the 4 channels of First Order Ambisonics.

When exporting your video, use the correct preset, in my case it’s VR Monoscopic Match Source Ambisonics.

Have fun!
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Tags: Editing, Sub Edit, Studio, Official, YouTube

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…and find deep connection even with pain.
By: Myke Myers
Tags: Editing, Suggestions

…ne thing remains unchanged: that beautiful feeling you get when you help each other, come together, of find deep connection with even with pain.
The Way I Write a Book
By: M. H. Rubin
Tags: Post Production, Editing, Publishing, Filmmaking, Self Publishing

The Evolution of a Plan

On my first day of NAB, as I walked the enormous hall, it became immediately clear that none of these people realized how radically their jobs were about to change. Over the next few years the broadcast industry would need to learn about computers; people in Silicon Valley were going to increasingly need to create products that replaced elements of the broadcasting and filmmaking workflow; and filmmakers would benefit by understanding electronic issues like timecode and pixels.

At the various booths I’d stop in someone would say “Rubin, you should write a book explaining this” referring to whatever complicated piece of the puzzle they represented. As I walked the show, a sketch started to form in my mind of a rosetta stone for the three industries that were converging, and a reference guide that would help me navigate.

On the second day of NAB, as I walked through the halls, my position had changed, and I’d tell people that I was researching a book on the new technologies. I was gathering information and I wanted them to take me more seriously. By saying I was going to do a book, I got demonstrations of products, I got business cards and contacts. I was trying it on like a suit, and seeing how it fit.

On the third day of NAB I was invested in the idea, and told people I was currently writing a book on nonlinear editing, and when they’d ask if it would have X or Y in it, i’d say yes, and make a note. I was starting to describe it to people with increasing degrees of detail.

On the fourth and last day of NAB I told people I was finishing up a book on nonlinear editing, and it would be released soon. I was almost done and just getting some last minute info at the show…

I’d been talking about it for days and it felt achievable. By the last day I was worried about competition, I wanted to discourage any like-minded individuals from pursuing. If someone heard it was an idea, they might think they could beat me to market, but if it was “almost done” then they’d probably hold off, and wait to see it before they decided to move on it or not.

By the time I was leaving NAB I had committed to this book. Now I had to write it. I announced to anyone who would listen that it would be available at the next industry trade show, the SMPTE show, in five months.
10 Tips for Easier Self-Editing
By: Patricia Haddock
Tags: Writing, Writing Tips, Editing, Professional Development

10 Tips for Easier Self-Editing

Photo by KAL VISUALS on Unsplash

Writing is a creative act; we are merely getting ideas and information out of our heads onto the page. The real work comes after we have written when we shift into a more analytical phase, and the crafting of our work happens. Editing is the process that ensures our content is clear, concise, and correct, and that it meets both our needs and the needs of our readers. By approaching editing as a methodical, step-by-step process, it becomes easier to accomplish, the finished document is structurally sound, and we enhance our reputation as a professional writer.

“Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”― Patricia Fuller

Here are 10 steps of the editing process that will improve our ability to edit our own work and that of other people.