How to Use EditorBurger
Although EditorBurger can take the heavy lifting of editing, sound design, and audio mixing out of your hands, there’s still some things you need to handle before you cook up!
Use the following best practices in your content creation workflow no matter who your editor is.
Rule #1: Have a Script
Scripts organize your ideas by creating a roadmap for the editor. As a result, you'll spend less time making revisions.
This can be a simple beat sheet or detailed verbatim soundbytes and shots you’d like included.
For example, if you’re submitting a lot of raw footage, you can note the clip names and time stamps of the shots or soundbytes you want your editors to use.
The more you trust your editor, the more you can rely on beat sheets to guide overall structure while leaving the nitty gritty choices to them.
Rule #2: Keep Your Source Files Organized
Before sharing footage and submitting an editing request, organize your media files first. Create and label specific folders for each kind of asset your video features:
Video: Original footage captured by the filmmaker. Within your main “Video” folder, create subfolders labeled by camera and roll, for example Red_001, Red_002, SonyFX9_001, SonyFX9_002, 5D_001, and so on.
Audio: This refers to audio captured alongside the main footage, perhaps on a separate recording device, and may need to be synced with video in your edit timeline.
Archival: These are supplementary clips acquired to visualize topics or events referred to in your main footage.
Images: Like Archival, these can add flavor to your content or serve as reference material.
Music: ‘Nuff said.
Sound Effects: Often overlooked - sound effects add depth, impact, and movie magic to any edit.
Graphics: Logos, titles, lower thirds, chyrons, motion graphics...anything is fair game here!
Visual Effects: You may have effects shots or layers to lay in over your raw footage.
Video: Original footage captured by the filmmaker. Within your main “Footage” folder, create subfolders labeled by camera and roll, for example Red_001, Red_002, SonyFX9_001, SonyFX9_002, 5D_001, and so on.
Archival: These are supplementary clips add visual variety or may reference events referred to in your main footage.
Images:Like Archival, these can add flavor to your content or serve as reference material.
Audio:This refers to audio captured alongside the main footage, perhaps on a separate recording device, and may need to be synced with video in your edit.
Music:‘Nuff said.
Sound Effects: Often overlooked - sound effects add depth, impact, and movie magic to any edit.
Graphics:From logos and titles to motion graphics, anything is fair game here!
Visual Effects:You may have effects shots or layers to add to your footage.
When you're crunched for time, dumping files into a single folder may seem like a good idea. But doing so actually slows down the editing process. Your editor will spend less time crafting your content and more time hunting for footage. Organizing files will also help future-proof your projects if you ever want to revisit the material or continue the edit at a later date. You'll save your future self time and headaches. We promise!
Rule #3: Share References and Inspiration
Always include any examples for how you’d like your videos to look, sound, and feel. In the business, we call these references. References are the language of creative professionals. Refs can articulate tone, mood, and overall style of presentation.
By identifying references, you not only get inspired yourself, but you’ll mind meld with your editor, share the same vision and spend less time going back and forth during revisions.
References help you build chemistry and shared language with your editor over time.
(That's why we pair every EditorBurger user with their own dedicated editor.)
A Suggestion: Plan Your Video Requests in Batches
At EditorBurger, we only edit one video at a time, but we allow unlimited requests and revisions. Sending several requests at once won't overwhelm us. In fact, we encourage it. Once your editor finishes one video, they can move onto the next without missing a beat.
Follow these steps and flourish :)
