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ThePowerEdit: Four groovy ways to Uptown Funkify your editing

Posted February 19, 2016
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What can a music video with over a BILLION views teach us about video editing?

Plenty.

Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars’ music video for “Uptown Funk” is the 7th most watched video on Youtube of all time. The song is ridiculously catchy, and the editing is razor sharp to boot.

Power Edit founder and Los Angeles-based author and TV editor Jeff Bartsch breaks down 4 big ideas that you can transplant directly into your editing – whether the project is in any way funky or not.

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