Are you interested in learning quick and easy ways to speed up your video editing? Follow along through techniques used to optimize workflow, use proxies, apply keyboard shortcuts, and more to edit videos quicker and enhance efficiency.

What is video editing? Video editing may be described as an art of manipulating and combining video fragments, stills and audio to make up a film. Nowadays, this is commonly done on your computer, using fancy video editing programs called non-linear editors, or NLE’s. All that means is you can view, cut and arrange digital video in any order, without the need to play through the whole thing. When movies were edited on film, editors literally had to chop up the film with a razor blade and attach the pieces end to end to make a movie. That’s why editing is sometimes called cutting. In fact, a lot of video editing lingo carries over from the old days of film cutting. For example the file organization systems in a digital editor are called bins because film canisters were once stored in bins during the editing process. Sometimes, the process of video editing is also referred to as post-production.

Video editing is a very important activity in the context of content creation that goes all the way from making a simple YouTube video to an extensive short movie. For large files, especially with complex layering and detailed effects, this process takes a great deal of time. Be you a professional editor or a novice, strategies must be sought for streamlining your workflow. Now, in the following tutorial, we will talk about a few simple tricks and techniques that range from system settings optimization to mastering shortcuts, using time-saving tools like proxies, which will give you that extra editing speed. This will save you not only editing time but also generally make you more productive.