For the editor · lenses: Editing 6.5 · Pacing 6.0
Editing the Dossier
A working playbook for the timeline. The headline finding: cut cadence is not your problem — coverage is. Here's what to keep, what to kill, and the frames that prove it.
Frames from the cut — keep these, fix these
What the camera actually shows
One keyframe every 30 seconds from the four sampled videos. The good (maps, charts, recreations) and the misses (static talking heads, a blown-out frame, a near-black frame) side by side.
Resources for the editor