Insight #14 - Ed Morris: Edit Assistant’s Introduction to Editing Software
00:02 And what software have you been using during Munich? It was all Premiere Pro. And then in the final year, I should learn Avid now because it's about time. The avid media composer is the default. I mean, 99% of the time is the default for film and TV. Yeah, I think I heard that from someone, actually. Yeah, in the UK and America specifically. So, you know, there is the 1% that still cut film and TV on Adobe, you know, Premiere Pro, which is great.
00:29 But, yeah, so it was always using that up until the uni. which is a great. I think this is a great beginner editing software to use. And then if you can make the jump to Abit, I feel like you should, you know, because it is a great bit of kit. So to learn that in third year. And we're using that on the TV show that we're working on now. So it was very handy to have that experience cut in with it before going to go into this job. Was Avidavit available at your lead? Yeah, yeah, it was, but they didn't teach it. They offered the course. Yeah, 101 and 110 course they offered, but they didn't fundamentally teach it. But luckily, our third did teacher. I think. because we all said we won't learn it, he kind of thought us a little bit of it, which is good. But the default teacher that they would do was Premier. Yeah. And can you compare those two softwares, a Premiere Pro and have it. I can, yeah.
01:14 I mean, ultimately, you know, depending on the editing software that you pick, depends on the project that you're working on, then depending on what you need it for. So, you know, Premier is really, really good at doing things quite quickly, and it's really good for temp graphics. You know, there's a lot of sound work that you can do, and there's a lot of effects and there's a lot of things that you have at your disposable
01:33 to make, especially your temp work really, really, really good. What is the temp work? So, I mean, depending on, so, for instance, in a film and TV perspective,
01:42 you would do kind of temp work in the offline edit, which you then provide and turn over to a sound department. Oh, they'd also do the finishing touches. So, Bremio's really good at that because you can do a lot of advanced stuff in that software before turning over
01:58 to, you know, picture or sound. for instance. So you can get some really, really good looking stuff in Premiere. You know, with Avid, you have to kind of transcode everything and you have to work with Avis native codex, which can be quite annoying. And, you know, it's a lot harder to, not harder, but just more of workaround to kind of get your project up and running. Whereas POMA is very much a drag and drop. Can you say it's easier? It's easier to learn, Premier. I do think it, you know, Premiere is an easier software to learn. And of course you have really easy access to after effects as well with Premiere
02:30 so you can collaborate between two of those softwares. It would be good to a band. It is more user-friendly and more beginner-friendly. It kind of holds your hand a little bit as you're working. And does it also differ based on what content you are working on? If, for example, we're doing music videos or YouTube videos, you would use rather Premiere Pro, whereas for working in the industry as you are, you would go for a bit, or it doesn't really matter?
02:55 I mean, yeah, again, it's all kind of down to the editor's preference, but the majority from what I've seen is film and TV, they kind of stick to Avid Media Composer. And then a lot of video-based work is done, you know, YouTube, Instagram Reels, TikTok, a lot of that is done in premiere. Yeah, but it's all down to the editor of the editor of, have you seen everything everywhere all at once? Yeah, yeah, sure.
03:20 Yeah, so the editor, Paul Rogers, he just won an Oscar for his editing on that film. he used Premier Pro for that. I didn't. Yeah, so exactly, exactly. You wouldn't really know it. It's not really, and his reasoning was that he was very proficient in that software. And he thought that, you know,
03:34 in order to get the best story possible, he wanted to use that to serve that story. So, yeah, it's not, so it's all down to that preference. But of course, there is a more, there is a shift in terms of who uses what, so. And what about the, I know there is also Da Vinci right and Final Cut.
03:50 Those are also quite a big editing software. Yeah, yeah, correct. Can you say something about Doves? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, like you say, when I was at school, we used Final Cut Pro and it was great because it really easy to use.
04:03 You kind of just trek and drop out and think and don't really worry about anything. I don't know, it's obviously, you know, saying that in hindsight it's bad, but when you're 16, it's quite, it's a very easy software to learn. And obviously because it's native to Apple, it runs very, very smoothly, of course,
04:17 on Apple products. The Venture you resolve, it's really, really powerful at the moment. And, you know, they've just launched an iPad version so you can actually edit on an iPad, which is massive. Especially on the new iPads, yeah, you can do a lot of good work on that. But yeah, the video is great because also that's free.
04:33 There is obviously a paid version, but the free version is really, really good because you can also, the kind of grading, you know, capabilities of that program, they're huge. So, yeah, instead of doing a workflow between a different editing software, you could just use results to do a kind of an end-to-end products, you know, projects, which is really helpful. So I think if you can, you know, and a lot of these, different softwares have advantages and disadvantages, you know.
04:57 So I think if you can use, if you know how to navigate between them, you can use them, you know, just to your advantage. It's hard to say one's better than the other. Of course, people have their preferences and, you know, fundamentally there are certain things which one's better at them. The other isn't. But if you can use all of them, then, you know, I think it's going to just benefit you a lot more.
05:17 Can you use all of them? Not, I mean, to a base level, right? So, you know, I haven't touched final cuts since, yeah, school but I'd sound pretty competent working around the other three yet. And is there one you would recommend for beginners to start with? I'd recommend Premiere Pro yeah. I mean. Is there a free version? I guess not. Yeah, I don't think there is. Unfortunately, yeah, most things nowadays just tell you subscription rise. I think there might be a free version. I think there's definitely a trial
05:47 for you use it in a trial like a seven-day trial.
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