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film editing
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creative and technical post-production processing of film
AI overview
Film editing is the creative and technical work that happens after filming is done, where footage is selected, arranged, and refined to shape the final movie. It matters because editors use these tools to control pacing, build emotion, and tell the story in the most compelling way possible.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- editing
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- Commons category
- Film editing
- topic's main category
- Category:Film editing
- practiced by
- film editor
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- different from
- video clip
- topic has template
- Template:Film Editing
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A film editor at work in 1946
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