How have your favorite editors influenced you?

[macchinainterna]

We've talked about who our favorite editors are, but now let's talk about how they've inspired us in our own work. Let's be constructive about his. Take a good look at your favorite editors' videos and then take a look at your own work. Think about what in your favorite editors' work influenced you in your own editing.

[dreamawake]

The way they made cuts, the sources combos they used, the artistry behind it (if present), everything about my favorite editors just rang true to what I made or wanted to make, and how I wanted to make it. Sort of like when you hear a song lyric that hits you so spot on people could believe you wrote it. If that makes sense...I think it does.

[Shui]

My style is but a shadow of theirs.

[CrackTheSky]

My style is but a shadow of theirs.

This about sums it up. I think every editor draws on the ones that came before, whether intentionally or not. I know that over time I've adopted a lot of editing techniques that I picked up from some of my favorites (Megamom and Nostromo especially, for better or worse) and my style has morphed into a kind of amalgamation of all of them. I have some techniques or styles within my videos that I've kind of built from nothing, so to speak, but for the most part, inasmuch as I have a "style" that can be attributed to my videos, it is not my own.

It's also interesting to note that there are certain editors whose videos I tend not to like because they have a specific "style" that turns me off. These editors have influenced me as well, but in the opposite way -- I avoid doing what they do in their videos because I don't want those techniques to seep into my own editing.

[Sephirothskr]

I don't really get extremely influenced by other editors. I get inspired by music and the world around me. When I hear a song I listen to every beat, syllable, lyric and if it doesn't click, I dont use it. A lot of my videos themes are based on how I feel at the time. Personally, I love my style. I used to be envious of people who could pull off crazy effects and all that. I realized you don't need them to make anything good. My videos are very simple yet.. Just have some kind of essence to them I guess. My main inspiration from other editors is essentially "wow I liked that anime they used, never seen it. But I think it would've been better if it was done this way."

[Shui]

My style is but a shadow of theirs.

This about sums it up. I think every editor draws on the ones that came before, whether intentionally or not. I know that over time I've adopted a lot of editing techniques that I picked up from some of my favorites (Megamom and Nostromo especially, for better or worse) and my style has morphed into a kind of amalgamation of all of them. I have some techniques or styles within my videos that I've kind of built from nothing, so to speak, but for the most part, inasmuch as I have a "style" that can be attributed to my videos, it is not my own.

yeah, I like to think of myself as original and having my own style but most of the cool stuff I like to do myself were from "Wow, you can do that? I wanna do that!"-Moments.
That's kinda why I started editing myself in the first place

Though it's one thing to blatantly copy someone else and building upon what you know and learned from them.

It's also interesting to note that there are certain editors whose videos I tend not to like because they have a specific "style" that turns me off. These editors have influenced me as well, but in the opposite way -- I avoid doing what they do in their videos because I don't want those techniques to seep into my own editing.

yeah, it's especially funny if other people find those editors the top of the notch

[JaddziaDax]

I guess I've picked up some advice from some of them... and some good techniques and stuff. But I still like the idea of having my own style, since early on I had people telling me I needed to "edit like ________". A lot of my favorite editors have their own styles, so I guess I don't feel the need to copy a popular style.

[macchinainterna]

I just want to apologize for not contributing to this thread's topic when I first posted it. It's been a hellish time for me.

I've become friends with a lot of editors here, and I've come to really love the videos they themselves put out. I've also learned a lot from talking with them and working together in MEPs and collabs. I've gotten a lot of advice and help from my friends and they've pretty much been the biggest influence in my work over the years.

I should start with how JudgeHolden was a huge influence in the first couple of videos I had put out. Judge was one of two editors that willingly took the time to give me very constructive advice on how I could improve my editing (The other being silver_moon) from the very first video I put out. To this day their advice has been applied to all my videos in one way or another. It was also JudgeHolden who helped teach me how to better encode my videos back in the day.

Fall_Child42 has been a great beta tester for me, and has done a lot to help me avoid overusing crossfades and finding other means of improving my internal sync. He's also been a great help with learning more about lip syncing and masking techniques.

Ileia's energetic editing and use of internal sync is also a major influence in my work, as I have developed a love for utilizing internal sync as much as I can with my own videos.

ZephyrStar has been my mentor in all things After Effects. It was him who taught me the interface of the program and then just let me loose to do my own thing with it.

This is just off the top of my head, but so many people have helped me over time and I am grateful for everything they've done to help me improve my editing and to come into my own.

[BasharOfTheAges]

They've made me do horrible things like go all over the country for cons and hang out with awesome people and be *gasp* sociable. My favorite editors have turned me into a monster.

[macchinainterna]

They've made me do horrible things like go all over the country for cons and hang out with awesome people and be *gasp* sociable. My favorite editors have turned me into a monster.

I know that hell all to well