Pancake editing is an excellent tool in your toolkit as an Editor, it can help with everything from Narrative Structure to saving time on your overall edit.

Table of Contents

1. What is Pancake Editing?
2. How can it help with my overall Edit?
3. How can I use Pancake Editing in my edit?
4. What are the Keyboard Shortcuts for Pancake Editing?

What is Pancake Editing?

Pancake as the name suggests can be stacked, (one on top of another) in this instance, it's the 'Timelines' that are stacked on top of each other. Then you can move your ingredients (Clips/Assets) around on to different Pancakes (Timelines).

2. How can it help with my overall Edit?

Pancake editing can really help you to edit a scene in a quick, but effective manner, allowing you to create 'Select Reels'.

Select Reels let you choose your best footage to use to create 'Rough Cut' and and later tour 'Fine Cut'

Choosing these selects at an early stage really gives you a great structure or a foundation for your edits.

3. How can I use Pancake Editing in my edit?

If you would like to use Pancake Editing in your current edit or future edits. let's start today!

1. Create two New Sequences > File New Sequences (There are multiple ways to achieve this, here is one).

2. Create your 'Selects' sequence, this will be formatted to whatever you filmed your footage in e.g. Digital SLR >1080p > DSLR 1080p25

3. Create your 'Rough Cut' sequence, this will be formatted to whatever you filmed your footage in e.g. Digital SLR >1080p > DSLR 1080p25.

4. What are the Keyboard Shortcuts for Pancake Editing?

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

With Pancake editing some really helpful keyboard shortcuts are:

Enjoy a pancake or two on Pancake Day!