Editing

Editing is the process of manipulating and rearranging video shots to create a new work. It's included in the post production process.
Film editing is divided into 3 words ; creation, manipulation and juxtaposition.
A good edit is one that conveys the right emotion in the storytelling process, maintains continuity in the story.

TYPES OF EDITING

Continuity editing 

is what create action that flows smoothly across shots and scenes without jarring visual inconsistencies.

180 degree rule

it is a basic guideline in showing the spatial relationship between two characters or a character and an object in a scene.

Crossing the axis

it is the violation of the 180 degree rule where the audience is left puzzled creating an 'effect'

Cutaway Shot

It is a shot in between of scenes or the primary subject to show interest, pick up pacing, establish context or develop meaning.

Cutaway Reaction Shot 

is the shot that showcases a character's reaction to something.

Eye-line Match Technique 

is based on the premise that the audience will want to see what the character on-screen is seeing. It begins with a character looking at something off-screen, followed by a cut to the object or person at which he is looking at.

Shot reverse shot

is a continuity editing technique used in conversations or characters looking at each other or at objects.

Cross-cutting

these shorts are those in which the editor cuts back and forth between the two or more events or actions that are taking place at the same time, but in different places. It is used to build suspense, mask abrupt changes in temporal and spatial continuity.

Match on action

it is when one shot cuts to another shot portraying the same action as the subject in the first shot.

Dialogue referent cut

is a cut from a character to what he or she is referencing in his/her dialogue

Thought referent cut

is a shot showing what a character is thinking.

Discontinuity editing

is a unique editing style where a filmmaker will deliberately use an arrangement of shots that seem out of place or confusing relative to the story.

Montage Editing

is a technique in which a series of short shots are edited into a sequence to condense space, time and information.

Intellectual montage

is an editing technique which uses the quick juxtaposition of shots combined to elicit a symbolic meaning.

There are more editing techniques, these are some very important but also something new i learnt.