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Colin and Samir Edited a Slow MrBeast video. And it worked.

The Editing Podcast

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How to Use a News Clip to Shape an Opening

We want to see Jimmy in a context that we've never seen him before, which is being ordered around. We also recognize the importance of retention and the importance of hooking people. So like these first 25 seconds, pretty high pressure. And I think something that's really unique is that Colin said to me, hey, we've got all these news clips. Is there any way that we can use these as our cold open?

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