Ileia wrote: Forcing together two things that ordinarily are not together.
That's a really cool way of looking at it! It's not really what I'm after as editor, but I love watching people do that and pull it off successfully as a viewer. I wish more editors would think in those terms - but it does take a bit of talent to actually do it well.
And apparently I'm in the minority, but I do find the editing process to be fun. I don't have crashes/problems that a lot of people seem to have, so I just get into my tunnel-vision-editing-mode and I love it. If I'm not having fun editing a video, I don't edit it. There are exceptions, of course, depending on the situation, but I rarely force myself to edit.
From my own view on that... I don't hate it because I have to force myself to edit - I know that I'll work obsessively and non-stop once I have the "artistic vision" or whatever you want to call it. When I'm ready to edit, no amount of technical frustration will actually stop me, and I rarely do run into tech issues. Sure they're frustrating when they crop up, and frankly I find solving any sort of technical problems (like how to do that one filter right, or tweaking with motion, or doing good encoding, etc. etc.) utterly boring/stupid/brain-numbing/energy-wasting, but that's not going to really stop me. And I love the feeling of having that drive to get a project done for creative reasons.
But the problem is that I find that tunnel-vision-editing-mode incredibly exhausting in the long run. Even when I do it well, it doesn't come naturally to me. I compare it to the same level of concentration as writing an exam - except it's like writing an exam that's a couple dozen hours long. Considering that my job/school already require a lot of concentration to begin with, the tunnel-vision-editing-mode just makes me want to pass out and never touch Premiere again by the time I'm done. I have very limited creative/mental energy, and editing consumes a lot of it when I do it. So I definitely admire people who can actually keep that level of commitment to editing (or other creative things) over and over - I would honestly crash and go insane if I edited even 1/10th as much as you (assuming I haven't already

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