How Animated Movies Are Edited (featuring Batman)

Editor Andy Young presents informative & hilarious takes on how he utilized Adobe Productions for Premiere Pro to edit the feature animation, Merry Little Batman. It’s a must-watch if you are an editor aspiring to edit animations like yours truly.

I’m little surprised that he didn’t mention other Adobe programs like Photoshop or After Effects, that are often cited as another strong consideration to edit in Premiere Pro, thanks to Dynamic Link.

However, his interview on editing Harley Quinn season 3 do mention them, so he may have left that out in this presentation to focus on the editing parts.

Editing Billions Club featuring Jung Kook episode #TimelineTuesday

As you may know, I edited the latest episode of Billions Club: The Series, featuring Jung Kook for Spotify recently. This was a fun editing experience that posed interesting challenges because it’s a 9x16, vertical video. (I haven’t worked on this format for awhile, despite its popularity on Instagram, TikTok, Youtube Shorts, etc.)

So it’s my pleasure to share my first #TimelineTuesday of 2024, below.

The final Premiere Pro timeline of Spotify | Billions Club: The Series featuring Jung Kook

I figured this timeline setup requires some context because it’s not just cuts of videos & audio.

  • V1: A solid red background to check if a video covered 9x16 frame. If not, blaring red will be obvious in a simple glance.

  • V4: An adjustment layer for the temp Alexa LUT. All the graphic elements sit above this track.

  • Top Track: English subtitle track. The entire dialogue is in Korean, so I translated & subtitled them. There were four tracks of Instagram & TikTok UI guides underneath the subtitle track to position subtitles as well as graphic elements. The guides were removed before the turnover to a colorist.

I knew that this will be the most popular video that I edited by far, and yet the numbers surprised me.

44.2 million views on Instagram in 2 weeks! (14.2 millions views on TikTok as of today, 01/02/2024)

Fun Fact: As I was working on the first cut of this episode, Lisa’s episode dropped and saw that it starts with the similar shot that I had at the moment; the star pops out from left side of the frame. Because Jung Kook was the next episode in the series, I couldn’t start the episode with that shot. Haha…

So the first shot is his thumbs up as you see now, and his entrance shots start later in the episode after establishing NYC shots. I used more of his thumbs up shots to indicate an end of segment-like a period to a sentence, but they were removed as it felt repetitive and redundant.

All in all, I look forward to more shots at editing 9x16, vertical videos, as well as more projects with K-Pop stars in 2024. Fighting!

"The Last of Us" Editors on Its Editing Secrets

The Last of US is my favorite show of 2023 so far, and I love how the editors explain their tricks and trades of making the little moments of characters shine in these The Editing Podcast videos..

I can’t wait to see how the editors will shape the stories for the season 2 of the show.

I’ve added another presentation, after Youtube algo surfaced it. This contains more details of their personal backgrounds and other scenes from the series.