Advanced video editing techniques
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL

Refine Your Craft and Work with Greater Confidence

Move beyond basic assembly to develop sophisticated editing skills that elevate your creative work across diverse formats and scenarios.

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What You'll Achieve

Expand Your Editing Capabilities Significantly

This course helps you transition from capable beginner to versatile editor with broader technical and creative skills.

Handle Complex Projects

You'll develop comfort working with multi-camera footage, longer sequences, and projects requiring coordination across multiple elements. What once felt overwhelming becomes manageable through practiced techniques.

Control Visual Quality

Learn color correction approaches that enhance your footage's appearance. Understanding how to adjust tones and balance helps your work look more polished and intentional.

Shape Audio Effectively

Develop skills in audio mixing that complement your visual work. You'll understand how sound design and music choices affect the overall impact of your edits.

Work More Efficiently

Master keyboard shortcuts and workflow optimizations that significantly reduce project completion time. This efficiency allows you to focus more energy on creative decisions rather than technical execution.

Common Challenges at This Stage

Many developing editors encounter similar growth limitations as they advance.

Basic Skills Feel Limiting

You can complete straightforward projects but feel constrained when attempting more ambitious work. Multi-camera sequences, complex audio arrangements, or projects requiring visual polish seem just beyond your current capabilities.

Pacing Remains Challenging

While you understand basic cutting, controlling the rhythm and energy of longer sequences proves difficult. Your edits might feel either rushed or sluggish, and identifying exactly what needs adjustment remains unclear.

Format Variety Feels Daunting

Perhaps you've developed comfort with one type of content but feel uncertain approaching different formats. The editing approaches for documentary, narrative, or commercial work each present unique considerations you haven't explored.

Color and Audio Need Attention

You recognize that professional work exhibits visual and audio qualities your projects lack. Understanding how to achieve similar polish through color correction and sound mixing remains mysterious.

Our Approach

Build on Your Foundation With Focused Skill Development

This course addresses exactly these growth areas through targeted instruction and varied practice.

01

Expand Technical Capabilities

Learn multi-camera editing workflows that simplify complex footage management. You'll develop systematic approaches to organizing and cutting between multiple angles efficiently, making ambitious projects feel achievable.

02

Develop Pacing Control

Explore how timing adjustments affect viewer experience and emotional engagement. Through deliberate practice with various content types, you'll develop intuition for identifying and correcting pacing issues.

03

Work Across Different Formats

Gain experience with narrative, documentary, and commercial editing through format-specific projects. Understanding how each genre's conventions and expectations differ helps you approach diverse assignments confidently.

04

Polish Visual and Audio Quality

Learn practical color correction techniques that enhance footage appearance without requiring advanced grading knowledge. Similarly, develop audio mixing skills that bring clarity and impact to your sound design.

Your Eight-Week Journey

Here's how your skills expand through structured practice and guidance.

WEEKS 1-2

Advanced Cutting Techniques

Explore cutting methods beyond basic assembly. Learn when different techniques serve storytelling purposes and practice applying them deliberately to shape viewer experience.

WEEKS 3-4

Multi-Camera and Pacing

Develop workflows for handling multiple camera angles efficiently. Projects focus on controlling rhythm and energy through timing adjustments and sequence construction choices.

WEEKS 5-6

Color and Audio Fundamentals

Learn practical color correction approaches that enhance visual quality. Begin audio mixing work that integrates dialogue, music, and sound effects effectively.

WEEKS 7-8

Format-Specific Projects

Apply your expanded skills to genre-specific assignments. Work on narrative, documentary, and commercial formats to understand how editing approaches vary across different content types.

Course Format

Sessions meet at our Shibuya location with editing workstations available. Each week combines technique demonstration with substantial hands-on practice time. You'll work on progressively challenging assignments that build specific skills.

Targeted Feedback

Instructors review your work and provide specific suggestions for improvement. This personalized attention helps identify areas needing focus.

Diverse Practice Material

Projects use varied footage types to expose you to different editing scenarios and challenges, building versatile capabilities.

Course Investment

Consider what these expanded capabilities mean for the quality and scope of work you can handle.

Advanced Editing Techniques

8 Weeks Tokyo Location
¥148,000

What's Included

Eight weeks of focused skill development
Advanced technique instruction and demonstration
Multi-camera and diverse format footage
Color correction and audio mixing practice
Genre-specific project assignments
Efficiency techniques and keyboard shortcuts

Value Beyond Technique

These advanced capabilities enable you to handle more ambitious projects and achieve higher production values. The versatility you develop opens opportunities to work across different content types rather than feeling limited to familiar formats.

Understanding Skill Development

Knowing what to expect helps you recognize your own progress.

How Skills Expand

Early weeks focus on technique acquisition through demonstration and guided practice. As you gain comfort, assignments become more open-ended, encouraging you to apply multiple skills simultaneously. This progression mirrors how professional work requires integrating various capabilities.

Each technique builds naturally on previous learning

Prerequisites Matter

This course assumes basic editing software proficiency and timeline management understanding. Students with this foundation typically adapt well to the advanced material and progress steadily through increasingly complex assignments.

Starting with appropriate skill level ensures comfortable learning pace

Portfolio Development

Your completed genre projects demonstrate versatility to others. Having work samples across narrative, documentary, and commercial formats shows broader capability than single-format portfolios.

Diverse project work expands what you can show potential clients or employers

Supporting Your Development

We want this experience to feel productive and encouraging.

Detailed Curriculum

Our week-by-week outline shows exactly what each session covers. This transparency helps you assess whether the content matches your development goals.

Personalized Attention

Instructors provide specific feedback on your project work. This individualized guidance helps address your particular challenges and accelerates improvement.

Practical Experience

Every technique you learn gets applied immediately through hands-on projects. This practical focus ensures you develop working capability rather than theoretical knowledge.

Open Discussion

We encourage questions before enrollment about whether this level suits your background. Honest conversation helps ensure good fit between your needs and course content.

Starting Is Straightforward

Here's what the enrollment process looks like.

1

Share Your Background

Contact us with information about your current editing experience and what you hope to develop. This helps us confirm the intermediate level matches your situation.

2

Receive Complete Details

We'll provide full curriculum information, upcoming session dates, and schedule specifics. This allows you to evaluate whether the timing and content work for you.

3

Enroll at Your Pace

When you decide to proceed, we'll walk you through enrollment and provide everything needed for your first session including location details and materials information.

Prerequisites

This course works best for people with basic editing software proficiency who understand timeline organization and fundamental cutting techniques. If you're uncertain whether your current skills match this level, we're happy to discuss your background and provide guidance.

Basic software knowledge
Timeline understanding
Ready for complexity

Ready to Expand Your Capabilities?

Let us know about your editing background and we'll help determine if this course aligns with your development goals.

Request Course Information

Questions? Contact us at info@petalpathfloral.com or +81 3-6427-5892