Calling video an "edit"
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- mg33
Can someone explain to me why the word "edit" is so commonplace now when people describe a video they made?
I see this a lot in snowboarding. Ex: "My friends and I made an edit from Saturday! Check it out." They're referring to a video they made of their first trip riding this year. But why is this called an "edit?" They edited a video to make a video. Same thing in the movie industry - nobody goes to the theater to see an "edit" even thought the same process was applied to get the final product: shoot video, edit video, arrange video, add sound, done.
Can we start a movement to get people to knock it off already?
- brandelec0
i think if it involved the person in editing the video, they call it that. but they wouldn't call a movie/video an edit in the theater.
still i was born in the 80s, fuck do i know
- ORAZAL0
I thought video was dead.
- Miguex0
F that!
what about people calling themselves 'FOODIES'?? that is way more important that calling an edit an edit.
You like to eat, big deal. WELCOME TO THE EXCLUSIVE CLUB OF HUMAN RACE. What gives you the ego to blindly assume that you have a 'better palette' than anyone else? We can all eat and be opinionated, if you want to impress someone, become a chef and stand in the spotlight.
- vaxorcist0
It's a dodge for aesthetic responsiblity.... i.e. it's "an edit" rather than "a serious project"
- mg330
And this I guess.
- Miguex0
- F THAT GUYMiguex
- AND HIS FAIR TRADE CERTIFIED SWEATERMiguex
- i love carrot juice,
but fuck whole paycheck
fuckin hate that overpriced placemoldero - Actually this looks like a normal guy to me.cannonball1978
- he does doesn't he? and he is looking at me like, come on Miguex, I just love carrot juice, why the hate?Miguex
- no I feel badMiguex
- cannonball is that guy. um... it's OK.ohhhhhsnap
- thought he was holding an ipad mini for a secohhhhhsnap
- fadein110
1st world problem
- hans_glib0
yeah! and while we're at it what the fuck is up with "lock-up"? it's called a logo, you fucking hipster fags
- locustsloth0
made a video = something your auntie does when your cousin has a ballet recital
make a film = something people who are serious enough to actually buy film do
make an edit = somewhere in between those two- edited a video = sounds like you have a stutterlocustsloth
- good pointsMiguex
- Miguex0
^
oh yeah, well that might be... but what is your justification for 'foddie' ?
- *foodiealbums
- amenMiguex
- gastronomic aficionado is too much of a mouthfullocustsloth
- gastronomic aficionado sounds lke a disease you get from travelling somewhere....vaxorcist
- "food fan" sound like some fat fuck in a beanie with a pennant that says "GO FOOD!"locustsloth
- but thats what you are, you like to eat, just call it that! no need for foodieMiguex
- moldero0
ill call it an "edit" during rounds/revisions, before its done.
kinda works for that purpose I guess, because when a client is reviewing revisions hes looking at the edit styles/versions/whatever
but once its done its a fuckin video.the "film" shit gets me sometimes, its not a film dude, its a short. you never bought a foot of film in your life, call it what it is.
- < the truth, brought to you by molderolocustsloth
- it's not a short dude, it's a videoalbums
- +1mg33
- cannonball19780
And while we're on the topic, what the hell is PREGGERS. What baby-talking gaggle of inseminated retards coined that one?
It's "pregnant".
- MHDC0
creatives.
- inteliboy0
"working on a new edit" "check out this new edit" etc is common here because sitting in the edit suite, well that is what we are doing and that is what they are called. It's like calling a photoshop job a "comp". I guess that has trickled down to normal people putting together skate vids in their bedrooms.
- Frosty_spl0
edit = unfinished video.
- chossy0
When I am at work I never use the word video, I will always say either edit or film. When I am talking to my friends I say film or movie. Just like I imagine when you are in work and you say when talking about a project 'my first designs will be ready tomorrow' and when you talk to your friends you will say 'look at the booklet I made' either way if you say edit outside of work you are a fucking clown.