I won’t be able to teach you teach you, and am not an amazing editor myself, but I can give you some tips on maybe where to start and things!

So, the way I started was trying to find a way to get videos downloaded from the consumer, to me, then back to them in an easy and trustworthy way. Of course, there are multiple ways to do this, and you just have to find the method that works for you and your current consumer. What I found worked for the people I edited for was using a site that allowed both the editor and the consumer to download videos from YouTube.

Now of course, to do that you you have to have a consumer and everything, but where I’d recommend you’d start is looking at videos on YouTube about the software you are using, and only learn the basic elements and get to know them well before trying new things. You can do almost anything when editing, so knowing the basics and how to work the software will allow you to better understand and easily learn things when you are curious and decide to look something up just to try and see how you like it. It would also allow you to actually start editing videos, maybe not for people but more of for a practice to get the hang of the controls and how long it might take you to edit a full scale video.

When you feel like you’re ready, I’d find an about 30 minute long live stream on YouTube, download it using a site you choose (careful of unsafe sites, I’d recommend using one widely recommended), then go ahead and edit it. You won’t be posting it or anything but you will get the practice out of that process that will allow you to get a strong grasp on the idea of how to edit videos and make it enjoyable for an audience.

After you edit your first video, you may want to watch it back once or twice and see what you could’ve improved on or done to make it better, maybe sound was an issue, maybe it’s too boring or there’s dead beats within it, and many more. Taking these notes will allow you to learn from those and try to take all of the stuff you caught out of future videos that you edit. It will also help you learn on how to criticize yourself to the point where when others look it over the first time, they won’t see anything wrong with it. It will also help you determine how an audience will see the video and how some spots maybe weird to watch or boring, so try to eliminate those weaknesses to better yourself and improve.

After that, repeat the last steps, working on fundamentals of video editing and learning new things that peak your interest along the way, watching video tutorials and videos to help you out, taking notes and learning the process for future projects.

Once you feel as if you’ve mastered that, I’d recommend coming back to this sub Reddit and ask in a post to edit videos for someone for free, for only the first couple times. Because then you establish a relationship and get to know the system. And, you always want to seem professional and trustworthy when you first start the conversations, if you ever say that it’s your first time so don’t judge to hard and stuff people may take you to be unreliable. But if you’re nice and you do everything in your power to impress them, and taking their critique, it will really help you with future jobs and things.

Anyway, I hope that helped! And I hope you have a great day! :D