film editing

1. 1.

   the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

   Synonymscutting

   Broadercreating by removal

Questions about film editing

What does film editing mean?

film editing means "the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film".

What is another word for film editing?

Close synonyms include cutting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is film editing a common word?

film editing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.