One of the simplest descriptions of editing is that “editing takes out the bad bits.” How many times have you taken video of an important event only to have it languish in the camera or an a tape, totally impossible to watch because it’s too long and contains lots of “bad bits.”

You know what I’m talking about – you forgot the camera was still on and your getting great shots of your shoes on the floor. Or your best man’s toast has one perfect lucidly moment of genius drowned out by ten minutes of being a wit bit too drunk and off on another tangent, like your ex-girlfriend. That may work in Hollywood movies, but it doesn’t play in real life.

Remember little Timmy’s 4th birthday party? That was great until Aunt Josephine made the off-color remark about Cousin Ed. And before the marvelous, miraculous birth of your daughter, April, there are fourteen hours of your wife moaning and complaining, “are you filming? You better not be filming.”