Nathan Barry shows two practical editing tricks: mark mistakes with a clap so the waveform spike makes them easy to trim, and do multiple takes. Editing your own footage forces you to get better on camera.
I still edit the way you taught me. Like edit videos, hit record on the camera, deliver straight to camera. Every time you make a mistake, just do a clap and then do the take again. And so you see in your timeline all these spikes of the snap or the clap, and then you can go through and edit all of that.
I actually would always do— I would just make those like 3 or 4 of those. You see the audio waveform and you can just go backwards and it makes it really easy to flow. Once you've edited a few times, it helps you to do it. And I'm always encouraging people to edit their own stuff because it makes you better on camera.
