@rabinn.fx: Why your transitions make your edit look cheap Old editors used transitions like punctuation — the hard cut was the default, and a dissolve or a fade only showed up when something actually changed. A dissolve meant time passed. A fade to black meant it was over. Every transition carried meaning. Today people drop one between every clip, and once they’re everywhere they mean nothing — so the brain reads them as decoration, and decoration is what makes an edit look amateur. The fix is simple: hard cut by default. Only use a transition when the time, place, or idea actually shifts. #videoediting #editingtips #videotransitions #videoeditor #editingmistakes