 This is not a drill. Let's talk about keeping your video tight. Tightening up your video involves taking out what's unnecessary and maintaining the pace. Trimming, cutting, punching and speeding up are techniques you can use to tighten up your video. You're likely to have extra recording at the start and end of a clip. Turn that away. Perform surgery and extract mistakes and long pauses. A popular video style is to embrace cuts. Jump cuts remove sections of video and they don't try to hide the fact that something was cut out. Jump cuts can be jarring, but that might be what you're going for. I'm not a jump cutter, but I am a puncher. Let me explain. When I feel like I've been talking for a while, I'll do a cut and scale up the clip. Then a few seconds later, I'll cut again and scale the clip back down. It kind of looks like I'm shooting with multiple cameras and switching between them. Another way to describe a cutting and scaling is punching in or punching out. Punching in and punching out adds visual variety to my videos, but it also hides my flubs Yes, I might punch in because I feel the need to change up the shot, but I also punch in instead of using a jump cut to edit out a mistake. It's not as jarring because your brain is used to the changes in framing. Punching in and punching out isn't just for when I'm on screen. I frequently punch in and out in my screen recordings. I first show the whole screen as an establishing shot. Then I cut and scale to zoom into the relevant part of the screen. It focuses attention and makes it easier to see. If you're showing a demonstration and don't want to cut out any of the parts, you might speed up the video. If the video has audio, be sure to mute the audio. You can add a voiceover or music on another track. If you want your audience to have some time to let your ideas sink in or you want to give them time to think, then by all means, slow down your video's pace. But in general, it's best to keep a peppy pace. Trimming, cutting, punching, and speeding up are tools you can use.