Film Editing Cuts and Transition
Cuts Cutting on action (cutting while there is movement on-screen) Cutaway (cutting to an insert shot and then back) Cross-cutting (back and forth between locations, ex: phone call) Jump cuts (disjointed edits in the same shot or action) Match cut (cut from one shot to a similar shot by either matching the action or composition) Transitions Fade in/out (to/from black) Dissolve (blend shots) Smash cut (abrupt transition) Iris (old-fashioned; circle that opens and closes in camera) Wipes (screen wipes from one side to the other) Invisible cuts (impression of a single take) L-cut (audio transition) J-cut (audio of the next scene starts before you get to it. <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?cli...