Edit Video on the Phone That Shot It

The phone that shot your footage is genuinely capable of finishing it — but only if you work in the right order. The order is: set the camera up properly, cull ruthlessly, assemble and trim, grade last, export once. Skip a step or shuffle them and you end up re-editing compressed exports of compressed exports, wondering why everything looks soft. Here is the whole workflow, with the exact moves.

Set the Camera Up Before the Shoot