25 things I learned during my first year as a Video Editor

When I was 13 years old, I got my first summer job.
I decided to spend all the money I earned on a video camera.
My first own video camera.

The camera recorded tapes, and I needed to buy an extra part for my computer (plus a separate cable) in order to transfer the footage from the camera to my hard drive via “Firewire”. Good old times. 😄

The extra “Firewire-card” I had to buy in order to transfer my video footage to my computer in 2002

I‘ve kept this interest in filmmaking ever since, but I‘ve never turned it into anything serious until 2017 when I started an internship as a video editor.

At the time, I was 28 years old but I had no previous professional experience nor education in video editing — just a big interest.
So I pretty much started from scratch.

After doing a 15-week internship at that company, I got hired full-time. Since I was their only video editor, learning by doing has been the only way forward for me.

Two years later, I started freelancing.

Out filming with my drone in Blaikliden, Sweden.

As you can imagine, I made a lot of mistakes during my first year as a video editor. However, these mistakes helped…