Editing a tutorial
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Face

Titles
Hard cut.
Keep them right on top.
Shoot for about 3 seconds.
But more importantly, tie them to speech (where you here punctuation: ,, ., ;, !, ?).
Use a J-cut out.
Keywords
Put them on screen with a big blocky font in heavy weight.

Transition: face-to-display
Use a slide-up transition.
Keep the face stable.
This works because

Transition: display-to-face
Don’t bother.
Just a J-cut.
Transition: display-to-display
Use a push transition.
- 1-to-2, push-left
- 2-to-1, push-right
Try and keep track of which is which so there’s consistency between display changes.

Other
Audio
- normalize (YouTube), this one is mostly to make music and sfx volume matching easier.
Export
- normalize (YouTube)